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Ducking for cover, Christine Johnston
The Elusive Language of Ducks Judith White Random House, $38.00, ISBN 9781775532798 Judith White’s themes are the big ones – old-age, decline and death; sex, love and the betrayal of love. Her characters have an inner life but they also…
Tagged with: Christine Johnston, Issue 103, Judith White, Random House, Spring 2013
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Nothing sacred, Christine Johnston
Risk C K Stead MacLehose Press, $30.00, ISBN 9780857052230 C K Stead is a towering figure in New Zealand writing – a distinguished novelist, literary critic, poet, essayist and emeritus professor of English of the University of Auckland. He has…
Tagged with: Autumn 2013, C K Stead, Christine Johnston, Issue 101, MacLehose Press
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Putting yourself on the line, Christine Johnson
The Commonplace Book: A Writer’s Journey Through Quotations Elizabeth Smither Auckland University Press, $34.99, ISBN 9781869404765 How the Land Lies: Of Longing and Belonging Pat White Victoria University Press, $35.00, ISBN 9780864736383 “[A] memoir is how one remembers one’s own…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Christine Johnston, Elizabeth Smither, Issue 95, Pat White, Spring 2011, Victoria University Press
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Love and war, Christine Johnston
Ned and Katina: A True Love Story Patricia Grace Penguin Books, $40.00, ISBN 9780143007401 Who could resist a love story set on Crete in 1945? Obviously Patricia Grace couldn’t. The celebrated author was approached by Ned’s and Katina’s family with…
Tagged with: Autumn 2010, Christine Johnston, Issue 89, Patricia Grace, Penguin Books
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Obituary — Dianne Ruth Pettis
Dianne Ruth Pettis (1955-2008) Dianne Ruth Pettis was a fiction writer and poet, who published under the name Ruth Pettis. She was born in Waipawa in Hawke’s Bay and worked as a journalist, a script writer for the Natural History…
On a wing and a prayer, Christine Johnston
How to Watch a Bird Steve Braunias Awa Press, $24.99, ISBN 9780958262965 Steve Braunias is preaching to the converted in the case of this reviewer, who lives within cooee of native bush and shallow water. I can admire white-faced herons…
Tagged with: Awa Press, Christine Johnston, Issue 80, Steve Braunias, Summer 2007
Posted in Natural History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Natural History, Non-fiction, Review
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