Reviews of ‘Looking For Answers: A Life of Elsie Locke’

Listen to an interview with the author, Maureen Birchfield, or book reviews: Radio New Zealand – Elsie Locke

Other reviews:

Beattie’s Book Blog,  27 September 2009. Reviewer: Graeme Beattie. Read it here: Beattie’s Book Blog

Waiheke Weekender, 11 October 2009: “Daring to Stand Alone: activist and writer Elsie Locke”. Reviewer: Liz Eastmond. Read it here: Waiheke Weekender Review

The Press, Christchurch, 17 October 2009: “Speaking up for what matters”. Reviewer: Vincent Orange.

Kapiti Independent News: kapitiindependentnews.nt.nz/books. 2 November 2009. Reviewer: Pat Rosier. New Zealand

Listener: 7 November 2009: “Finding Elsie”. Reviewer: Lydia Wevers.

Paekakariki Xpressed: 20 November 2009, p.10. Reviewer: Alison Laurie.

Off Campus – the magazine of Massey University’s Extramural Students’ Society, Vol. 14, Issue 4, November 2009, p.22. Reviewer: Peter Hawes.

Otago Daily Times:19 December 2009, p.57: “Formidable Book – like its subject”. Reviewer: Victor Billot.

Foreign Control Watchdog, December 2009, Issue 122, p.60: www.converge.org.nz/watchdog/22/indexx22 Reviewer: Murray Horton.

Oral History in New Zealand: www.oralhistory.org.nz. Volume 21, 2009, p.30. Reviewer: Margaret Long.

Heritage Matters 5, Issue 21, Summer 2009/10.

Peace Researcher – journal of the Anti-Bases Campaign: www.converge.org.nz/abc. Number 39, January 2010, pp 31-37. Reviewer: Murray Horton. (Same review as in Foreign Control Watchdog).

New Zealand Journal of History. 44, 1, 2010, pp.100-101. Reviewer: Melanie Nolan.

New Zealand Memories, Issue 83 April/May 2010, p.68.

Heritage New Zealand, Autumn 2010, p.53.

New Zealand Books, Vol. 20, No.1, Issue 90, Winter 2010, p.25: “Public Work, Private Life”. Reviewer: Grace Millar.