New Zealand Books Winter Issue 2011

The next issue of New Zealand Books, Issue 94, Winter 2011. It will be posted out to subscribers on 13 June and should reach the bookshops on 19 June.

And here to whet your appetite is the list of contents:

2         Obituary: Judith Binney

3         Janet Hunt: Alison Ballance, Kakapo: Rescued from the Brink of Extinction; Neville Peat, The Tasman: Biography of an Ocean

4         Hugh Roberts: Janet Wilson (ed), Frank Sargeson’s Stories

6         Murray Bramwell: Mike Johnson (graphic art, Darren Sheehan), Travesty; Emma Neale, Fosterling; Hamish Clayton, Wulf

7         Elizabeth Caffin: Mike Doyle: Collected Poems 1951-2009

           Peter Bland: “Naked Ladies” (poem)

8         Letters

           Vincent O’Sullivan: “Plane People” (poem)

9         Isa Moynihan: “A failure of trust” (Byline)

10      Michael Hulse: Paula Green and Harry Ricketts, 99 Ways into New Zealand Poetry

11      Chris Else: Jim Flynn, The Torchlight List

12      Liv Macassey: Vincent Ward, The Past Awaits: People, Film, Images

13      Lois Daish: Perrin Rowland, Dining Out: A History of the Restaurant in New Zealand

14      Melissa Laing: Peter Simpson, Fantastica: The World of Leo Bensemann

15      Stella Ramage: Gregory O’Brien: A Micronaut in the Wide World: The Imaginative Life and Times of Graham Percy

16      Diane Hebley: Adele Broadbent, Just Jack; Des Hunt, The Peco Incident; Barbara Else, The Travelling Restaurant: Jasper’s Voyage in Three Parts; Ken Catran, Nina Questor: The Battle Has Begun

17      Ruth Nichol: Charlotte Randall, Hokitika Town; Laurence Fearnley, The Hut Builder

19      Ashleigh Young: Ian Mune, Mune: An Autobiography; Joy Cowley, Navigation: A Memoir; Carol Henderson and Heather Tovey, Searching for Grace: A Woman’s Quest for Her True Identity; Cath Tizard, Cat Amongst the Pigeons: A Memoir

20      John McCrystal: Peter Butler, Gravel Roads; Nicholas Edlin, The Widow’s Daughter; Carl Nixon, Settlers’ Creek; Kelly Ana Morey, Quinine

21      Nicholas Reid: Craig Cliff, A Man Melting; Pip Adam, Everything We Hoped For; Tina Makereti, Once upon a Time in Aotearoa

22      Peter Russell: Sarah Gaitanos, The Violinist: Clare Galambos Winter, Holocaust Survivor

23      Les Cleveland: Alison Parr, Home: Civilian New Zealanders Remember the Second World War

           Lindsay Pope: “Wounds” (poem)

24      Robin Skinner: Julia Gatley (ed), Group Architects: Towards a New Zealand Architecture; John Walsh and Patrick Reynolds, Home Work: Leading New Zealand Architects’ Own Houses

25      Christine Dann: Margaret Sparrow, Abortion Then and Now: New Zealand Abortion Stories from 1940 to 1980

26      Hilary Stace: Julia Millen, Te Rau Herenga: A Century of Library Life in New Zealand: The New Zealand Library Association and LIANZA 1910-2010

27      Simon Upton: Raymond Richards, Palmer: The Parliamentary Years

28      Prize cryptic crossword