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Telling stories Catharina van Bohemen
Singing Historian: A Memoir Edmund Bohan Canterbury University Press, $30.00, ISBN 9781927145319 Sarah Vaughan Is not my Mother: A Memoir of Madness Maryjane Thomson Awa Press, $35.00, ISBN 9781877551802 Where the Rainbow Fell Down: A New Zealand Memoir Lynette Robinson…
Tagged with: Awa Press, B J and L M Coker Family Trust, Canterbury University Press, Catharina van Bohemen, Edmund Bohan, Issue 102, Lynette Robinson, Maryjane Thomson, Winter 2013
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Skewed unforgettable normalities, Catharina van Bohemen
At the End of Darwin Road – A Memoir Fiona Kidman Vintage, $34.99, ISBN 9781869419448 Muck: A Memoir Craig Sherborne Victoria University Press, $30.00, ISBN 9780864735683 Digging for Spain: A Writer’s Journey Penelope Todd Longacre Press, $29.99, ISBN 9781877361968 “The…
Tagged with: Catharina van Bohemen, Craig Sherborne, Fiona Kidman, Issue 81, Longacre Press, Penelope Todd, Victoria University Press, Vintage, Winter 2008
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Another country, Catharina van Bohemen
Alice and Luigi Graeme Lay David Ling, $29.99, ISBN 1877378070 In Touch with Grace Jenny Pattrick Black Swan, $27.99, ISBN 1869417674 As we grow older, we look over our shoulders. We want to see where we came from, whether our…
Tagged with: Black Swan, Catharina van Bohemen, David Ling Publishing, Graeme Lay, Issue 78, Jenny Pattrick, Winter 2007
Posted in Fiction, Literature
Posted in Fiction, Literature
Like a good ballad, Catharina van Bohemen
Heart of Coal Jenny Pattrick Black Swan, $26.95, ISBN 186941604X Heart of Coal is the sequel to Jenny Pattrick’s highly Successful Denniston Rose – the story of the isolated inhabitants of the coal-mining town of Denniston on the West Coast.…
Tagged with: Black Swan, Catharina van Bohemen, Issue 67, Jenny Pattrick, Spring 2004
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Summoning the shark, Catharina van Bohemen
the shark bell Christine Johnston Penguin, $27.95, ISBN 0143018248 Halfway to Africa Bronwyn Tate University of Otago Press, $24.95, ISBN 187727626X The Shark Bell is the story of a summer in the late 1960s St St Clair’s Beach, Dunedin, told…
Tagged with: Autumn 2002, Bronwyn Tate, Catharina van Bohemen, Christine Johnston, Issue 57, Otago University Press, Penguin
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Faith’ll fix it, Catharina Van Bohemen
faithsinger Rosie Scott Vintage, $24.95, ISBN 1869414667 “It’s a delightful reversal that I’ve become more radical as I’ve gotten older. I get so enraged by the kind of social injustice I feel”: Rosie Scott in an interview with Rob O’Neill…
Tagged with: Catharina van Bohemen, Issue 52, Rosie Scott, Summer 2002, Vintage
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Provoking self-knowledge, Catharina van Bohemen
Provocation Charlotte Grimshaw ABACUS, $29.95, ISBN 0 349 11122 7 On a grey Auckland morning in a large house overlooking the harbour, Stella is watching television. She’s waiting for the staff to arrive. The house belongs to her lover, Stuart…
Tagged with: Abacus, Catharina van Bohemen, Charlotte Grimshaw, Issue 40
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Fear and loneliness in Grey Lynn, Catharina van Bohemen
Guilt Charlotte Grimshaw Abacus, $29.95, ISBN 0349111960 Among the chorus of young women’s voices emerging presently in NZ writing, Charlotte Grimshaw’s is strong and distinctive. Her two novels Provocation and Guilt are set mainly in Auckland and evoke a…
Tagged with: Abacus, Catharina van Bohemen, Charlotte Grimshaw, Issue 47, March 2001
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review