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Barbara Murison: Somewhere to begin

Posted on June 12, 1994 by NZ Books

Flash Ashley and Woody and Friend John Parker HarperCollins, each $9.95 Fuss the Farm Dog and David and the Monster Gaelyn Gordon HarperCollins, each $9.95 Series of books for beginning and reluctant readers have been around for the past 40…

Tagged with: Barbara Murison, Gaelyn Gordon, HarperCollins, Issue 13, John Parker, Winter I 1994
Posted in Children, Literature, Review

Unacknowledged legislators, Diane Hebley

Posted on December 1, 1993 by NZ Books

Zigzag William Taylor (ed), Penguin, $19.95 Slide the Corner Fleur Beale, Ashton Scholastic Take Me to Your Leaders Gaelyn Gordon, Tui Harper/Collins, $14.95 Those who support New Zealand literature for children and young adults have always claimed the justification for…

Tagged with: Ashton Scholastic, Collins, Fleur Beale, Gaelyn Gordon, Issue 11, Penguin, Summer 1993, Tui Harper, William Taylor
Posted in Children, Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults

Beach holiday is a convoluted affair, The Monday Book Group

Posted on September 1, 1993 by NZ Books

Last Summer Gaelyn Gordon, David Ling Publishing, $24.95 Gaelyn Gordon writes well enough, and this, her third book for adults (she has previously written for children), is a ripping yarn. The simple quality of her writing is perhaps intended as…

Tagged with: David Ling Publishing, Gaelyn Gordon, Issue 10, Spring 1993
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review

Diverse enjoyable strands, Heather Roberts

Posted on October 1, 1991 by NZ Books

A Population of One Alice Glenday, Vintage, Auckland, 1991, $19.95 The Peace Monster John Smythe, Vintage, Auckland, 1991, $24.95 The Widowhood of Jacki Bates Frances Cherry, New Women’s Press, Auckland 1991, $19.95 Strained Relations Gaelyn Gordon, Vintage, Auckland, 1991, $24.95…

Tagged with: Alice Glenday, Frances Cherry, Gaelyn Gordon, Heather Roberts, Issue 3, John Smythe, New Women's Press, Spring 1991, Vintage
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review