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“Lashings of empathy”, Tina Shaw
From the Ashes Deborah Challinor HarperCollins, $37.00, ISBN 9781460754122 What You Wish For Catherine Robertson Black Swan, $38.00, ISBN 9780143772811 Discovering that From the Ashes is a sequel to Fire, Challinor’s 2006 novel, makes sense of this novel’s title. Fire…
Tagged with: Autumn 2019, Black Swan, Catherine Robertson, Deborah Challinor, HarperCollins, Issue 125
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Knowing one another, Maggie Trapp
The Beat of the Pendulum: A Found Novel Catherine Chidgey Victoria University Press, $35.00, ISBN 9781776561704 Tess Kirsten McDougall Victoria University Press, $25.00, ISBN 9781776561001 Gabriel’s Bay Catherine Robertson Black Swan, $38.00, ISBN 9780143771456 Imaginative writing takes the hurly-burly of…
Tagged with: Autumn 2018, Black Swan, Catherine Chidgey, Catherine Robertson, Issue 121, Kirsten McDougall, Maggie Trapp, Victoria University Press
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Loosening stiff upper lips, Charlotte Graham
Leap of Faith Jenny Pattrick Black Swan, $38.00, ISBN 9780143770916 Good Sons Greg Hall Mary Egan Publishing, $32.00, ISBN 9780473383787 It seems there are two major challenges for any author wanting to write about New Zealand in some of its…
Tagged with: Black Swan, Charlotte Graham, Greg Hall, Issue 120, Jenny Pattrick, Mary Egan Publishing, Summer 2017
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Tea and comfort, Sarah Laing
The Hiding Places Catherine Robertson Black Swan, $37.00, ISBN 9781775536420 Where is the line between popular and literary fiction? If the latter is rich with poetic language and literary references, then Catherine Robertson has crossed it. But if popular fiction…
Tagged with: Black Swan, Catherine Robertson, Issue 111, Sarah Laing, Spring 2015
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War stories, Anne Else
Passing Through Coral Atkinson Dancing Tuatara, $35.00, ISBN 9780473262693 Heartland Jenny Pattrick Black Swan, $37.00, ISBN 9781775535850 Tropic of Guile Sue McCauley Xlibris, $42.00, ISBN 9781483683195 All three of these novels centre on hard-won survival against the odds of poverty,…
Tagged with: Anne Else, Black Swan, Coral Atkinson, Dancing Tuatara, Issue 108, Jenny Pattrick, Sue McCauley, Summer 2014, Xlibris
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Being Minnie, Lawrence Patchett
The Day She Cradled Me Sacha de Bazin Black Swan, $38.00, ISBN 9781869797744 The Day She Cradled Me is about Minnie Dean, the Southland “baby-farmer” hanged for infanticide in 1895. Therefore it has the problem of any such novel…
Tagged with: Black Swan, Issue 99, Lawrence Patchett, Sacha de Bazin, Spring 2012
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The voice of the monster, Bernard Carpinter
Blood Men Paul Cleave Black Swan, $36.99, ISBN 978869792718 Containment Vanda Symon Penguin Books, $28.00, ISBN 9780143202295 Cut and Run Alix Bosco Penguin Books, $37.00, ISBN 9780143011910 What Remains Behind Dorothy Fowler Black Swan, $29.99, ISBN 9781869792084 New Zealand’s reputation…
Tagged with: Alix Bosco, Bernard Carpinter, Black Swan, Dorothy Fowler, Issue 90, Paul Cleave, Penguin Books, Vanda Symon, Winter 2010
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That old stuff, Coral Atkinson
The Sea Between Carol Thomas HarperCollins, $36.99, ISBN 9781869507626 Weathered Bones Michele Powles Penguin Books, $28.00, ISBN 9780143011248 Flashback Forward John Cairney Black Swan, $29.99, ISBN 9781869419219 After generations of being like adolescents with no interest in “that old stuff”,…
Tagged with: Black Swan, Carol Thomas, Coral Atkinson, HarperCollins, Issue 86, John Cairney, Michele Powles, Penguin Books, Winter 2009
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Mermaids, miners and mystics, Anne Else
Saltskin Louise Moulin Black Swan, $27.99, ISBN 9781869419608 Ribbons of Grace Maxine Alterio Penguin Books, $35.00, ISBN 9780143006442 Acts of Love Susan Pearce Victoria University Press, $29.99, ISBN 9780864735652 Three first (or at any rate, first published) novels, all by…
Tagged with: Anne Else, Black Swan, Issue 83, Louise Moulin, Maxine Alterio, Penguin Books, Spring 2008, Susan Pearce, Victoria University Press
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Coming of age for Kiwi baddies, Bernard Carpinter
The Cleaner Paul Cleave Black Swan, $29.95, ISBN 9781869417604 The Killing Hour Paul Cleave Black Swan, $27.99, ISBN 9781869418663 Overkill Vanda Symon Penguin, $28.00, ISBN 9780143006657 From My Cold, Cold Hands David McGill Silver Owl Press, $34.99, ISBN 9780958245159 The…
Tagged with: Bernard Carpinter, Black Swan, David McGill, Fraser Books, Issue 80, P C Laird, Paul Cleave, Penguin, Silver Owl Press, Summer 2007, Vanda Symon
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