Losing Alice Noel Virtue Vintage, $24.95, ISBN 1 86941 370 9 I saw a TV interview with Noel Virtue while writing this review. Fortunately he got everything right. He spoke about personal redemption in his work, and how it comes about…
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Reality checks, Howard Warner
Telling Stories Geoff Palmer Secker & Warburg, $24.95, ISBN 0 7900 0463 1 Finding Home Dominic Sheehan Secker & Warburg, $19.95, ISBN 0 7900 0462 3 The Transfiguration of Martha Friend Noel Virtue Vintage, $24.95, ISBN 1 86941 303 2…
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Tagged with: Autumn 1997, Dominic Sheehan, Geoff Palmer, Howard Warner, Issue 29, Noel Virtue, Secker & Warburg, Vintage
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Living on the edge, Brett Mason
He Tangi Aroha: A Cry for Love Apirana Taylor, Huia Publishers, $29.95 The Eye of the Everlasting Angel Noel Virtue, Vintage, $19.95 1990. Lest we forget. 150 years. How could we forget? But it was a year no one seemed…
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Tagged with: Apirana Taylor, Brett Mason, Huia Publishers, Issue 10, Noel Virtue, Spring 1993, Vintage
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Chronicler of our ‘provincial’ past, Lawrence Jones
Always the Islands of Memory Noel Virtue, Vintage Books, Random Century Group, Auckland, 1991, $24.95 Noel Virtue’s fourth novel appeared in England early this year and like his third one In the Country of Salvation received favourable attention, Christopher Hawtree in The Spectator going…
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Tagged with: Issue 3, Lawrence Jones, Noel Virtue, Random Century Group, Spring 1991, Vintage Books
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Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review