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Strait Men and Other Tales
Murray Edmond
Steele Roberts, $30.00,
ISBN 9781927242988

Strait Men and Other Tales by Murray Edmond is a tricky beast. Its slim spine belies the size and style of the stories within – there’s nothing that you’d call a “normal” short story. Instead, you’re faced with the theatrical, the epistolary, the filmic, the journalistic. One theme for each story – because there are just four of these tales inside, and the titular “Strait Men” is decidedly in novella territory. Read more »

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Issue 115 | Spring 2016

Issue-115Volume 26 | Number 3 | Issue 115 | Spring 2016

 

Editorial

Chris Orsman: “Memory Harbour” (poem)

Charlotte Graham: Tracey Slaughter, Deleted Scenes for Lovers

Thom Conroy: Laurence Fearnley, The Quiet Spectacular

Tatjana Schaefer: N K Ashworth, The Falconer’s Daughter; Fleur Beale, Being Magdalene

Barbara Else: Mary-Anne Scott, Coming Home to Roost; Joy Cowley, The Road to Ratenburg

Caitlin Walker: Joy Cowley, The Bakehouse

Trevor Agnew: Avis Acres (text and illus), The Adventures of Hutu and Kawa; David Hill (Phoebe Morris illus), First to the Top: Sir Edmund Hillary’s Everest Adventure; Bob Kerr (text and illus), Changing Times: The Story of a New Zealand Town and its Newspaper; Sally Louise Hill: A Bear’s Journey: The Marlborough Sounds, New Zealand

Kiran Dass: Thom Conroy, The Salted Air

Briar Lawry: Murray Edmond, Strait Men and Other Tales

Elizabeth Kerr: Elizabeth Salmon, Peter Godfrey: Father of New Zealand Choral Music

Mary Roberts: Richard Loseby, A Boy of China: In Search of Mao’s Lost Son

Roger Robinson: John Pratt, The Prison Diary of A C Barrington: Dissent and Conformity in Wartime New Zealand

John Horrocks: Suzanne McFadden, Striking Gold: New Zealand Hockey’s Remarkable Victory at the 1976 Olympics

Mark Reason: James McNeish, Seelenbinder: The Olympian Who Defied Hitler

Damien Fenton: Andrew Macdonald, First Day of the Somme: The Complete Account of Britain’s Worst-ever Military Disaster; John Crawford, David Littlewood and James Watson (eds), Experience of a Lifetime: People, Personalities and Leaders in the First World War

Tony Simpson: Christopher Pugsley, A Bloody Road Home: World War Two and New Zealand’s Heroic Second Division

Julia Millen: Rebecca Priestley (ed), Dispatches from Continent Seven: An Anthology of Antarctic Science

David Grant: Colin Hogg, Going South: A Road Trip Through Life

Bruce Babington: Geoff Murphy, A Life on Film: I’m Taking this Bloody Car to Invercargill!

Rae Varcoe: Mike Berridge, The Edge of Life: Controversies and Challenges in Human Health

Damian Love: Vincent O’Sullivan, And So It Is; Andrew Johnston, Fits and Starts

Gregory O’Brien: Sudesh Mishra, The Lives of Coat Hangers

Anahera Gildea: Reina Whaitiri and Robert Sullivan (eds), Puna Wai Kōrero: An Anthology of Māori Poetry in English

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