|
NOVELS Oracles and Miracles, Penguin New Zealand (Auckland, New Zealand), 1987 The Siren Celia, Penguin New Zealand (Auckland) 1989 The Shining City, Penguin New Zealand (Auckland) 1991 Gardens of Fire, Penguin New Zealand (Auckland) 1993 My History, I Think, Penguin New Zealand (Auckland) 1994 Mum, Penguin New Zealand (Auckland) 1995 Blue Blood, Penguin New Zealand (Auckland) 1997 Kaput! 1stBooks (Bloomington) 2001 Sheng Xian Qi Ji, Shanghai Yi-wen (Shanghai) 2002 Sheng Xian Qu Ji, Unitas (Taipei) 2005 Shanghai Boy, Random House (Auckland) 2006 HISTORIES A Southern Gentry, AH & AW Reed (Wellington), 1980, 1986 A New History of Canterbury, John McIndoe (Dunedin), 1982 Pleasures of the Flesh, Reed Methuen (Wellington) 1984 New Zealand Working People, Dunmore (Palmerston North) 1990 The Rich: a New Zealand History, Penguin (Auckland), 1996 Xin Xilan de Wenxue Lucheng, Unitas (Taipei), 2004 Diggers, Hatters and Whores, Random House (Auckland) 2008 ESSAYS 'Whatever happened to the gentry? The large landowners of Ashburton County, 1890-1896,' New Zealand Journal of History, 11(1), pp 3-27, Apr 1977. 'Longbeach: material life in the South Island countryside,' Historical News, Oct 1979. '"The beauty and fashion of the province": women of the landed gentry of Canterbury 1880-1910,' in L Richardson and W D McIntyre (eds), Provincial Perspectives, Christchurch 1980. 'Moral capitalism in the Hunter Valley 1880-1914,' Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, Sep 1980. 'The cradle of southern pastoralism' and 'The aristocracy of the plains,' in Frances Porter (ed), Historic Buildings of New Zealand: South Island, Auckland 1983. 'Sexuality in the nineteenth century: New Zealand,' New Zealand Sexologist, Dec 1984. 'A tale of two cities: the culture shock of a transplanted Cantabrian,' Wellington City Magazine, pp 20-25, Jun 1986. 'A Bourgeois blue? Nationalism and Letters from the 1920s to the 1950s,' Landfall, 41(3), pp 293-311, Sep 1987. 'Rude awakenings? Migrants in colonial New Zealand,' Proceedings of the New Zealand Society of Genealogists, Wellington, April 1987. 'Oracles and miracles: working class novel, okay?' Sites, 16, pp 111-120, Aut 1988. 'Un'Italia degli antipodi: Italy and colonial New Zealand,' Il Mondo Della Luce: il Cinema della Nuova Zelanda, Torino 1989. 'Landscape in the literature of Canterbury,' Canterbury Landscape Study, Vol 2, Canterbury Regional Council, 1993. 'The girls can't get out,' New Zealand Geographic, 21, pp 42-52, Jan/Mar 1994. 'Optical indulgence: selecting the decor for stories,' Island Magazine, [Hobart], 62, pp 52-55, 1995. 'Literary tales of Christchurch,' Tales Untold, South Island Art Projects, Christchurch 1996. 'Literary, literally,' in Roger Robinson [ed], Writing Wellington, VUP, Wellington 1999. 'Well-heeled walking wounded,' review article, New Zealand Books, Jun 2000. 'No place for the flamboyant,' review article, New Zealand Books, Jun 2001. 'An island story,' essays on New Zealand history and literature, Ming Dao Literature and Arts, [Taipei], Nov 2001 – Jun 2002. 'Dead wood shall bud,' essays on New Zealand history and literature, Ming Dao Literature and Arts, [Taipei], Sep 2002. ‘Capitalists or cavaliers,’ review article, New Zealand Books, Oct 2002, Mar 2003. ‘The story of something,’ Ming Dao Literature and Arts, Taipei, Jul-Dec 2003. ‘Speaking frankly of Frank and James K,’ review article, New Zealand Books, Aug 2003. ‘Kiwis and the literary classics,’ Ming Dao Literature and Arts, Taipei, May 2004. ‘Heart of Glass,’ The Listener, 28 Aug 2004. ‘Lifting the lid of the national box,’ review article, New Zealand Books, Oct 2004. ‘A magic lantern show,’ New Zealand Books, Aug 2005. ‘Frontiers of marketing,’ review article, New Zealand Books, Mar 2006. ‘Dark Past,’ five essays about death and violence in colonial Christchurch, The Press, 2006 Fiction and history reviews, New Zealand Herald, 2006 onwards. ‘No left turn,’ review article, New Zealand Books, Oct 2008. SHORT STORIES 'In concert,' NZ Listener, 25 Feb 1978. 'Suppressing one's r,' 'Mr Chirr, my son,' and 'Fox paws,' Islands, Nov 1978. 'When bawds and whores do churches build,' NZ Listener, 2 Dec 1978; republished in M P Jackson and Vincent O'Sullivan (eds), The Oxford Anthology of New Zealand Writing Since 1945, Auckland 1983; Michael Gifkins (ed), Listener Short Stories, Wellington 1984, and in Anna Rogers (ed), Our City: Christchurch, Exisle Publishing, Auckland 2003. 'All at sea,' Islands, Apr 1979. 'Puss in a poke,' NZ Listener, 6 Oct 1979; republished in Lydia Weavers (ed), New Zealand Short Stories, Auckland 1984. 'Bird in flight,' Skyway [Air New Zealand], Wellington, Nov 1979. 'Doing a bunk,' Landfall, Mar 1980. 'Come into my arms, you bundle of charms,' NZ Listener, 24 May 1980. 'A jazz age priestess meets the lady of hope,' Landfall, Dec 1988. 'They will be there before they leave,' Landfall, Jun 1990. 'The shining city,' excerpt from the novel; republished in Peter Wells and Rex Pilgrim (eds), Best Mates: Gay Writing in Aotearoa New Zealand, Auckland 1997. 'Our debut in the city beautiful,' Chinese translation of text from Oracles and Miracles, translator Annie Shih, Chinese Literary and Cultural Journal, New Zealand Chinese Writers Association, Christchurch, Nov 1999. 'Hallo Berlin,' in Dies ist eine wahre Geschichte, DAAD/Berliner Künstlerprogramm/Goethe- Institut, Berlin/Wellington 2002. OTHER WORKS Of Ivory Accents (novella), Exposition (New York), 1977 Oracles and Miracles (radio play), 1989 Blackball Blues (memoir), Chinese-English bilingual text, translator Annie Shih, (Taiwan), 2001 Choices of the Hand: a survey of works by New Zealand Jeweller Peter Deckers, First Edition (Wellington), 2006
|