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Beautiful and organic, Christine Johnston
Dunedin writer Christine Johnston rediscovers the still-growing pleasures of Tom’s Midnight Garden. I would have borrowed a copy of Tom’s Midnight Garden from Dunedin Children’s Library, which in those days was located in two of the terraced houses in Stuart…
One-night stands, Christine Johnston
Next to Gods: A Cleaner’s Story Don Franks Four Winds Press, $14.95, ISBN 0958251487 On Getting Old Kevin Ireland Four Winds Press, $14.95, ISBN 0958251479 On Going to the Movies Peter Wells Four Winds Press, $14.95, ISBN 0958251460 I have…
Tagged with: Christine Johnston, Don Franks, Four Winds Press, Issue 70, Kevin Ireland, Peter Wells, Winter 2005
Posted in Essays, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Essays, Non-fiction, Review
If it’s claggy, it must be Wellington, Kim Griggs
Auckland: The city in literature ed Witi Ihimaera Exisle Publishing, $34.95, ISBN 0908988362 Dunedin: The city in literature ed Christine Johnston Exisle Publishing, $34.95, ISBN 0908988451 Christchurch: The city in literature ed Anna Rogers Exisle Publishing, $34.95, ISBN 0908988427 Wellington:…
Tagged with: Anna Rogers, Autumn 2004, Christine Johnston, Exisle Publishing, Issue 65, Kate Camp, Kim Griggs, Witi Ihimaera
Posted in Literature, Review
Posted in Literature, Review
Painted ladies, Christine Johnston
Paint Your Wife Lloyd Jones Penguin, $35, ISBN 0143019066 “He had seen one thing and thought the other. He’d made the mistake of seeing what he expected to see, what he was used to seeing”– this quotation from the back…
Tagged with: Christine Johnston, Issue 64, Lloyd Jones, Penguin, Summer 2003
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
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