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Other People’s Wars: Book review

admin — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 06:28:53 +0000

Other People’s Wars by Nicky Hager

Craig Potton Publishing

What are New Zealand soldiers doing in the Middle East?

The accepted wisdom is that “we” are there for humanitarian purposes, assisting the rebuilding of a broken society, as part of a wider battle against terrorism and for democracy.

Not so.

New Zealand investigative journalist Nicky Hager has blown this warm and

Book club

admin — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 09:25:03 +0000

What I have been reading in 2009

Alasdair Gray – Lanark (just setting off on my second circumnavigation after ordering a smart new paperback edition that took months to arrive)

China Mieville – The City and the City (Bamboozling and brilliant)

Haruki Murakami – South of the Border, West of the Sun (followed quickly by Underground. It took me far … Read more

No Turtles sighted today at beach

admin — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 11:42:59 +0000

The view north from Warrington Beach this morning:

I picked up a copy of Turtle Diary by Russell Hoban at the 24 Hour Regent Book Sale on Friday and finished it today. A grand read. The last book of his I read was the Mouse and His Child, when I was about eight.

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Lucky country :: wild book :: mammon’s people

admin — Tue, 13 Jul 2004 16:27:00 +0000

After recovering from a dose of the midwinter flu and blues I’m looking forward to going on holiday.

Heading across the ditch and doing a slightly unusual trip on the Indian Pacific from Sydney to Perth. I’m fascinated by Australia especially the natural environment, and I realized I hadn’t been there for over twenty years. Good times.

Found my first … Read more