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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
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Darkening and deepening, Catherine Robertson
Through the Lonesome Dark Paddy Richardson Upstart Press, $35.00, ISBN 9781927262986 Paddy Richardson takes a risk with her latest novel. By setting it in Blackball, a mining town on the West Coast in the early 1900s, she raises expectations of…
Tagged with: Autumn 2018, Catherine Robertson, Issue 121, Paddy Richardson, Upstart Press
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
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
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
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
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Ticking on by, Catherine Robertson
Carnival Sky Owen Marshall Vintage, $38.00 ISBN 9781775535827 The White Clock Owen Marshall Otago University Press, $25.00, ISBN 9781877578632 Both of Marshall’s latest works centre on confrontations with mortality, and both do a fine job of showing that these are…
Tagged with: Catherine Robertson, Issue 108, Otago University Press, Owen Marshall, Summer 2014, Vintage
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Dizzy rascal, Catherine Robertson
Disraeli’s Daughter Catherine Styles Steele Roberts, $30.00, ISBN 9781877577963 Catherine Styles’s grandmother, Kate, was the illegitimate daughter of Benjamin Disraeli. Under his instructions, she was married off and banished to the colonies in order to avoid any stain on his…
Tagged with: Catherine Robertson, Catherine Styles, Issue 103, Spring 2013, Steele Roberts
Posted in History, Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
The Sharp end of the stick, Catherine Robertson
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