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“The push and pull of parenting”, Catriona Ferguson
Billy Bird Emma Neale Vintage, $38.00, ISBN 9780143770053 Emma Neale’s sixth novel, Billy Bird, probes the life of a troubled family – Liam, Iris and eight-year-old Billy. They are all reeling from a series of tragedies that have befallen their…
Tagged with: Autumn 2017, Catriona Ferguson, Emma Neale, Issue 117, Vintage
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Bleak stuff under total control, Stephanie Johnson
The Wish Child Catherine Chidgey Victoria University Press, $30.00, IBSN 9781776560622 When Dutch writer Herman Koch visited New Zealand as part of the 2016 Auckland Writers’ Festival, he expressed his belief that WWII was losing its allure as a subject…
Tagged with: Autumn 2017, Catherine Chidgey, Issue 117, Stephanie Johnson, Victoria University Press
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Mysteries past and present, John McCrystal
Days are like Grass Sue Younger Eunoia Publishing, $30.00, ISBN 9780994104762 Mysterious Mysteries of the Aro Valley Danyl McLauchlan Victoria University Press, $30.00, ISBN 9781776560479 Claire is a paediatric surgeon, newly returned to Auckland, city of her birth, from London,…
Tagged with: Autumn 2017, Danyl McLauchlan, Eunoia Publishing, Issue 117, John McCrystal, Sue Younger, Victoria University Press
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
New ways of looking at the Treaty, Therese Crocker
The Treaty on the Ground: Where We are Headed, and Why it Matters Rachael Bell, Margaret Kawharu, Kerry Taylor, Michael Belgrave and Peter Meihana (eds) Massey University Press, $40.00, ISBN 9780994130051 New Treaty, New Tradition: Reconciling New Zealand and Māori…
Tagged with: Autumn 2017, Carwyn Jones, Issue 117, Kerry Taylor, Margaret Kawharu, Michael Belgrave, Peter Meihana, Rachael Bell, Therese Crocker, Victoria University Press
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Editorial – Issue 117
Reeling them in It’s been a year since Peppercorn Press and New Zealand Books Pukapuka Aotearoa launched Hooked on NZ Books, www.hookedonbooks.org.nz, a website designed to encourage, nurture and publish young reviewers reading New Zealand books. During our first year, …
Letters – Issue 117
“Misleading expectations” Barbara Else’s review (NZB, Spring 2016) of Mary-anne Scott’s young adult novel Coming Home to Roost contains several errors of fact. Else writes, “The blurb states that the novel tackles teen pregnancy from the boy’s point of view.”…
Full fathom five, Kevin Ireland
My Father’s Island: A Memoir Adam Dudding Victoria University Press, $35.00 ISBN 9781776560820 When Edmund Gosse pioneered a new category of personal, interrogating biography, with Father and Son (1907), he framed painful questions and set down intimate dilemmas that won…
Tagged with: Adam Dudding, Autumn 2017, Issue 117, Kevin Ireland, Victoria University Press
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Powerful peace, Robert Sullivan
Te Whiti o Rongomai and the Resistance of Parihaka Danny Keenan Huia, $45.00, ISBN 9781775501954 This account of the non-violent resistance movement founded by the prophets Te Whiti o Rongomai and Tohu Kākahi at the Taranaki settlement of Parihaka begins…
Tagged with: Autumn 2017, Danny Keenan, Huia, Issue 117, Robert Sullivan
Posted in History, Māori, Non-fiction, Review, War
Posted in History, Māori, Non-fiction, Review, War
National anthems, Andrew Schmidt
In Love with these Times: My Life with Flying Nun Records Roger Shepherd HarperCollins, $37.00, ISBN 9781775540892 A Road Tour of American Song Titles: From Mendocino to Memphis Karl Du Fresne Bateman, $40.00, ISBN 9781869359382 Flying Nun Records, the small…
Tagged with: Andrew Schmidt, Autumn 2017, Bateman, HarperCollins, Issue 117, Karl Du Fresne, Roger Shepherd
Posted in History, Music, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Music, Non-fiction, Review