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Modern love, Hannah Marshall
Invisibly Breathing Eileen Merriman Penguin Random House, $20.00, ISBN 9780143772859 Invisibly Breathing is Eileen Merriman’s third novel, and it offers more than your typical romance. Bullying, homophobia and being an outsider – Merriman tackles plenty of tough topics in this…
Tagged with: Eileen Merriman, Hannah Marshall, Issue 126, Penguin Random House, Winter 2019
Posted in Literature, Review, YA Reviewers, Young adults
Posted in Literature, Review, YA Reviewers, Young adults
Letters of aroha and respect, Olivia Bennett
The Art of Walking Upright Glenn Colquhoun Steele Roberts, $25.00, ISBN 1877228206 “The art of walking upright here is the art of using both feet”. For many New Zealanders, the very essence of being Kiwi is being part of a…
Tagged with: Glenn Colquhoun, Issue 116, Olivia Bennett, Steele Roberts, Summer 2016
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review, YA Reviewers
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review, YA Reviewers
Glory or gory? Caitlin Walker
The Bakehouse Joy Cowley Gecko Press, $20.00, ISBN 9781776570072 Viewed from a distance of seventy-plus years, 1943 was history soup, everything mixed up, and it was difficult to separate reality from what he had read or been told. One event,…
Tagged with: Caitlin Walker, Gecko Press, Issue 115, Joy Cowley, Spring 2016
Posted in Literature, Review, YA Reviewers, Young adults
Posted in Literature, Review, YA Reviewers, Young adults
Bringing the front line home, Sarah Dickson
Evie’s War Anna MacKenzie Longacre, $20.00, ISBN 9781775537656 Anna Mackenzie’s book gives the reader an insight into WWI through the perspective of Evie, an 18-year-old New Zealander living in England. Shortly after her family arrives there for their tour of…
Tagged with: Anna Mackenzie, Issue 114, Longacre, Sarah Dickson, Winter 2016
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, YA Reviewers, Young adults
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, YA Reviewers, Young adults
Tourism and real life, Abby Loader and Abby Simpson
Bugs Whiti Hereaka Huia, $25.00, ISBN 9781775501336 Bugs, by Whiti Hereaka, is an honest narrative that confronts the reader with the everyday life of Bugs, “as in bunny”. Sixteen-year-old Bugs is struggling to hold onto childhood pal Jez, as he…
Tagged with: Abby Loader, Abby Simpson, Autumn 2016, Huia, Issue 113, Whiti Hereaka
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, YA Reviewers, Young adults
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, YA Reviewers, Young adults
Distance and familiarity, Lucy Prestidge
To the Is-Land Janet Frame Random House, $30.00, ISBN 9781869411305 The first volume of Janet Frame’s autobiography was initially a bit daunting to me. Not only because it’s the work of one of New Zealand’s most celebrated writers, but because…
Tagged with: Autumn 2016, Issue 113, Janet Frame, Lucy Prestidge, Random House
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, YA Reviewers, Young adults
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, YA Reviewers, Young adults