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Removing the adult voice, Kathryn Walls
Baker’s Dozen Tom Bradley, HarperCollins, $12.95 Saved by Ryan Kane Pauline Cartwright, Ashton Scholastic, $7.95 The Secret of Boomer Lake Ken Catran, HarperCollins, $10.95 The Breakdown Day Dorothy Butler, Ashton Scholastic, $12.95 Tom Bradley’s Baker’s Dozen is a collection of…
Tagged with: Ashton Scholastic, Autumn 1994, Dorothy Butler, HarperCollins, Issue 12, Ken Catran, Pauline Cartwright, Tom Bradley
Posted in Children, Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
Posted in Children, Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
Composed of small moments, Rod McGregor
The Miserables Damien Wilkins, Victoria University Press, 1993, $24.95 This, Damien Wilkins’s first novel, seems a natural extension of his earlier stories and poems. It is a bildungsroman of a very modernistic sort, tightly written, concise in scope but large…
Tagged with: Autumn 1994, Damien Wilkins, Issue 12, Rod McGregor, Victoria University Press
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
The same old plot, Colleen Reilly
Like You, Really Kate Flannery, Penguin Books, $24.95 The Wife Who Spoke Japanese in Her Sleep Vivienne Plumb, Otago University Press, $24.95 Best Friends Elspeth Sandys, David Ling, $19.95 All the Tenderness Left in the World Stephanie Johnson, Otago University…
Tagged with: Autumn 1994, Issue 12, Kate Flannery, Otago University Press, Penguin Books, Stephanie Johnson, Vivienne Plumb
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Letters – Issue 12
Dear Editor I am sorry that Roger Hall was upset by a review of Maurice Gee’s Going West which let the cat out of the bag, but pleased, for him, that he had already read the book and was not…
Editorial – Issue 12
Colin James: Short and suite “The association of short stories with New Zealand writing is as axiomatic and as much of a cultural cliché as pavlova with kiwifruit.” So Lydia Wevers begins a discussion of “The short New Zealand story”…
Noticeboard, March 1994: Mahy Lecture award
Betty Gilderdale has won the 1994 Margaret Mahy lecture award, offered annually by the New Zealand Children’s Book Foundation for a distinguished and significant contribution to children’s literature, publishing or literacy. Betty Gilderdale is a foundation member of the Children’s…
Punditry and punchups: Writers and Readers Week at the Wellington Festival, Jane Stafford
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