Harry Ricketts and Jane Westaway: “Hares and Tortoises” (Editorial)
Jane Westaway: Steve Braunias, Roosters I Have Known
Letters
Tony Simpson: “Out of the Secret Annex” (Byline)
Michael Nicolaidi: The Theatre Royal: An Illustrated History
Gavin Bishop: Gregory O’Brien, Back and Beyond: New Zealand
Painting for the Young and Curious
Christina Barton: Hamish Keith, The Big Picture: A History of New
Zealand Art from 1642
Margot Schwass: “Championing the Local” (Tribute: Ruth Dallas)
Michael Hulse: C K Stead, Book Self
Obituary: Gerry Evans (1937-2008)
Norman Bilbrough: Lynley Dodd, Hairy Maclary from Donaldson’s
Dairy
Elizabeth Smither: “Pebbles at the Window” (Comment)
Brian Turner: “High Windows” (poem)
Jan Hutchison: “John Clare’s Later Life” (poem)
David Geary: “Up the River” (Work in Progress)
Stevan Eldred-Grigg: Chris Trotter, No Left Turn: The Distortion of
New Zealand’s History by Greed, Bigotry and Right Wing Politics
Mark Williams: Katherine Mansfield’s Short Stories
Hamish Clayton: Maurice Gee, The Plumb Trilogy
Laura Kroetsch: Jan Morgan, Speaking for Themselves: Ex-pats Have
Their Say
Richard Hill: Ray Fargher, The Best Man Who Ever Served the Crown?
A Life of Donald McLean
Linley Boniface: Jill Trevelyan, Rita Angus: An Artist’s Life
Nicholas Reid: Charlotte Randall, The Crocus Hour
Beryl Fletcher: Christine Leunens, Caging Skies; Derek Hansen, Remember Me; Louise Wareham Leonard, Miss Me a Lot Of
Anne Else: Louise Moulin, Saltskin; Maxine Alterio, Ribbons of Grace;
Susan Pearce, Acts of Love
James Norcliffe: Anna Mackenzie, Shadow of the Mountain; Mandy
Hager, Smashed; Maurice Gee, Gool
Charles Ferrall: Manying Ip, Being Maori-Chinese: Mixed Identities
Don Aimer: Neill Atkinson, Trainland: How Railways Made New
Zealand
Bookshelf
Christine Johnston: Fiona Farrell (ed), The Best New Zealand Fiction
Vol 4; Elizabeth Smither, The Girl Who Proposed: New Short
Stories; Isa Moynihan, Here and There, Now and Then
Stuart Murray: Patrick Evans, The Long Forgetting: Post-colonial
Literary Culture in New Zealand
Obituary: Richard King (1948-2008)
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