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A Conversation With My Country Alan Duff Penguin Random House, $39.00, ISBN 9780143773269 In 1990, a comet brightened the New Zealand literary scene and society with the publication of Alan Duff’s Once Were Warriors, for it involved both an extraordinary…
Frederick’s Coat Alan Duff Vintage, $38.00, ISBN 9781869415662 Bangs Stevan Eldred-Grigg Penguin, $30.00, ISBN 9780143568063 Waiting for Elizabeth Joan Rosier-Jones Tangerine Publications, $30.00, ISBN 9780987664617 Alan Duff is one of our most esteemed writers. His best-known novel Once Were Warriors…
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Ann Beaglehole,
Issue 104,
Joan Rosier-Jones,
Penguin,
Stevan Eldred-Grigg,
Summer 2013,
Tangerine Publications,
Vintage
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What they wrote A taste of contributor comments over our first 20 years On New Zealand Books My hope is that New Zealand Books will provide a forum for frank discussion that dares to rise above the suffocating confines…
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Alan Knowles,
Barbara Else,
Bernard Carpinter,
Bill Manhire,
Bill Sewell,
Bruce Stewart,
Charles Ferrall,
Chris Else,
Chris Knox,
Christopher Tremewan,
Colin James,
Dale Williams,
David Hill,
Diane Hebley,
Guy Somerset,
Hamish Keith,
Harry Ricketts,
Heather Murray,
Hilary Stace,
Iain Sharp,
Issue 96,
Jane Bowron,
Jane Stafford,
Jane Westaway,
John Campbell,
Linda Burgess,
Linley Boniface,
Mark Williams,
Murray Edmond,
Nelson Wattie,
Peter Wells,
Roger Robinson,
Sue McCauley,
Summer 2011,
Tom Beard,
William Brandt
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As the Earth Turns Silver Alison Wong Penguin Books, $37.00, ISBN 0143011677 Who Sings for Lu? Alan Duff Vintage, $36.99, ISBN 9781869790585 The Adventures of Vela Albert Wendt Huia, $35.00, ISBN 9781869693633 Alison Wong’s As the Earth Turns Silver describes…
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Albert Wendt,
Alison Wong,
Autumn 2010,
Huia,
Issue 89,
Louise O’Brien,
Penguin Books,
Vintage
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Jake’s Long Shadow Alan Duff Vintage, $29.95, ISBN 1869415116 The first impression of Alan Duff’s new novel makes you expect a work of probing substance. Its cover is reminiscent of Heretaunga Pat Baker’s Behind the Tattooed Face. Featuring Brian Brake’s…
Szabad Alan Duff Vintage, $29.95, ISBN 1869414721 Reviewing a new novel by – notoriously controversial – Alan Duff is not only a daunting, but also a somewhat futile exercise. Judgements regarding Duff’s work tend to be firmly in place: there…
Out of the Mist and Steam: A Memoir Alan Duff Tandem Press, $29.95, ISBN 1 877178 58 6 Alan Duff frames his autobiography with scenes of his post-Warriors success: here we see him at ease with Prime Ministers, rubbing shoulders…
Out of the Mist and Steam: A Memoir Alan Duff Tandem Press, $29.95, ISBN 1 877178 58 6 Alan Duff frames his autobiography with scenes of his post-Warriors success: here we see him at ease with Prime Ministers, rubbing shoulders…
Alan Duff’s Maori Heroes Random House, $39.95, ISBN 186941425X Wahine Toa: Women of Maori Myth Robyn Kahukiwa & Patricia Grace Penguin, $31.00, ISBN 0670839418 Alan Duff’s Maori Heroes features 58 men and women from a range of professions and…
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December 2000,
Issue 46,
Patricia Grace,
Penguin,
Random House,
Robyn Kahukiwa
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Writing Along Broken Lines: Violence and Ethnicity in Contemporary Maori Fiction Otto Heim Auckland University Press, $39.95, ISBN 1 86940 182 4 Both Sides of the Moon Alan Duff Vintage, $29.95, ISBN 1 86941 362 8 After retiring from journalism,…
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