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Two Girls in a Boat Emma Martin Victoria University Press, $35.00, ISBN 9780864738936 Tough Amy Head Victoria University Press, $28.00, ISBN 9780864736987 Tales from the Netherworld Jo Randerson Steele Roberts, $25.00, ISBN 9781877577888 One of the many pleasures of reading…
Don Vicente’s Daughter and Other Stories John Parkyn Oceanbooks, price unavailable, ISBN 978192715012 All the Voices Cry Alice Petersen Biblioasis, $15.95, ISBN 978196845524 Ancestry Albert Wendt Huia, $35.00, ISBN 9781775500377 John Parkyn’s first volume of short stories, Don Vicente’s Daughter…
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The Thrill of Falling Witi Ihimaera Vintage, $38.00, ISBN 9781869799205 Recently, with the death of Margaret Mahy, New Zealand mourned the loss of one of its best-known writers for children. We can take comfort, however, from the fact that one…
I Got His Blood on Me Lawrence Patchett Victoria University Press, $35.00, ISBN 9780864737687 Who has whose blood on him? The narrator of the title story I Got His Blood on Me is smeared with the blood of an…
Gorse is Not People: New and Uncollected Stories Janet Frame Penguin, $40.00, ISBN 9780143567707 The title story of this posthumous collection touches a memory almost 30 years old: in 1984 reading An Angel at My Table, the second volume…
Dark Jelly Alice Tawhai Huia, $30.00, ISBN 9781869694760 The Desolation Angel Tim Wilson Victoria University Press, $35.00, ISBN 9780864736482 Bird North and Other Stories Breton Dukes Victoria University Press, $35.00, ISBN 9780864736901 More than any other literary…
The Trouble with Fire Fiona Kidman Vintage, $36.99, ISBN 9781869793593 A woman approaching her 50th wedding anniversary flies from Auckland to meet her aid-volunteer husband in Bangkok, and they fly on to Hanoi, where he becomes seriously ill with…
Frank Sargeson’s Stories Janet Wilson (ed) Cape Catley, $47.99, ISBN 9781877340284 The Dictionary of New Zealand Biography tells us that “Frank Sargeson’s major achievement was to introduce the rhythms and idiom of everyday New Zealand speech to literature”, and…
A Man Melting Craig Cliff Vintage, $29.99, ISBN 9781869791926 Everything We Hoped For Pip Adam Victoria University Press, $30.00, ISBN 9780864736253 Once upon a Time in Aotearoa Tina Makereti Huia, $30.00, ISBN 978186969166 He ran his right…
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The Penguin Book of Contemporary New Zealand Short Stories Paula Morris (ed) Penguin Books, $40.00, ISBN 9780143006817 A new collection of contemporary New Zealand short stories from Penguin, edited by one of our foremost authors, surely signifies an important publishing…