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Playing at home, John McCrystal
Pearly Gates: A Novel Owen Marshall Vintage, $38.00, ISBN 9780143773153 “Pride goeth before a fall”, so the proverb runs, “and an haughty spirit before destruction”. The prideful one in Owen Marshall’s latest novel is Pat Gates, universally known as “Pearly”.…
Tagged with: Issue 126, John McCrystal, Owen Marshall, Vintage, Winter 2019
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Human error, Stephanie Johnson
A Mistake Carl Shuker Victoria University Press, $30.00, ISBN 9781776562145 Carl Shuker is a writer who is not afraid to take risks. His previous four novels were all hailed for their innovation in form and espousal of post-modernism. He is,…
Tagged with: Carl Shuker, Issue 126, Stephanie Johnson, Victoria University Press, Winter 2019
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Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
A complicated relationship, Thom Conroy
The Ice Shelf Anne Kennedy Victoria University Press, $30.00, ISBN 9781776562015 What role does a book invite me to accept as its reader? I need not comply with a book’s request, of course, but I’m bound to recognise or, at…
Tagged with: Anne Kennedy, Autumn 2019, Issue 125, Victoria University Press
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Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
“Lashings of empathy”, Tina Shaw
From the Ashes Deborah Challinor HarperCollins, $37.00, ISBN 9781460754122 What You Wish For Catherine Robertson Black Swan, $38.00, ISBN 9780143772811 Discovering that From the Ashes is a sequel to Fire, Challinor’s 2006 novel, makes sense of this novel’s title. Fire…
Tagged with: Autumn 2019, Black Swan, Catherine Robertson, Deborah Challinor, HarperCollins, Issue 125
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Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Where perspectives collide, John McCrystal
The Imaginary Lives of James Pōneke Tina Makereti Vintage, $38.00, ISBN 9780143771562 You don’t have to be a good old-fashioned structuralist to look into the patterns of history and see the tectonic grind of ideas reflected in the rippling of…
Tagged with: Issue 124, John McCrystal, Summer 2018, Tina Makereti, Vintage
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Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Giving them what they want, Linda Burgess
Donato and the Cartege Blade Fiona Jordan Mary Egan Publishing, $25.00, ISBN 9780473437367 1918: Broken Poppies Des Hunt Scholastic, $19.00, ISBN 9781775432821 How Not to Stop a Kidnap Plot Suzanne Main Scholastic, $17.00, ISBN 9781775434801 Dawn Raid Pauline (Vaeluaga) Smith…
Tagged with: Des Hunt, Fiona Jordan, Issue 124, Mary Egan Publishing, Pauline (Vaeluaga) Smith, Scholastic New Zealand, Summer 2018, Suzanne Main
Posted in Children, Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Children, Fiction, Literature, Review
Sport and sexuality, Bill Hastings
Broken Play Nicholas Sheppard RSVP, $35.00, ISBN 9780994140814 Grant Robertson, our minister of finance, has a picture in his office of a rugby team called the Krazy Knights. The photo was taken 20 years ago. He is in it. All…
Tagged with: Bill Hastings, Issue 124, Nicholas Sheppard, RSVP, Summer 2018
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Back in the day, Chris Else
Tane’s War Brendaniel Weir Cloud Ink Press, $30.00, ISBN 9780473415648 Gone to Pegasus Tess Redgrave Submarine, $35.00, ISBN 9780473419196 Rotoroa Amy Head Victoria University Press, $30.00, ISBN 9781776561919 Over the last ten years or so, the number of established New…
Tagged with: Amy Head, Brendaniel Weir, Chris Else, Cloud Ink Press, Issue 124, Submarine, Summer 2018, Tess Redgrave, Victoria University Press
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Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Fathoms deep, James Robins
The New Ships Kate Duignan Victoria University Press, $30.00, ISBN 9781776561889 It’s a deeply distressing thing to find the word “bugger” on the first page of a New Zealand writer’s novel. Rather like opening some French fiction to discover “sacré…
Tagged with: Issue 123, James Robins, Kate Duignan, Spring 2018, Victoria University Press
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Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Writing in circles, Kate Duignan
Caroline’s Bikini Kirsty Gunn Faber and Faber, $33.00, ISBN 9780571339334 Caroline’s Bikini is a text written by Emily Stuart, in which she “takes dictation” from her oldest friend, Evan Gordonston, recently returned from the United States to London, and helplessly…
Tagged with: Faber and Faber, Issue 123, Kate Duignan, Kirsty Gunn, Spring 2018
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