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Worlds old and new, Nicholas Reid
Purgatory Rosetta Allan Penguin, $30.00 ISBN 9780143571025 James Cook’s New World Graeme Lay Fourth Estate, $37.00 ISBN 9781775540410 There’s one current phenomenon in New Zealand literature that I’m watching with great interest. It’s the fact that, with a few honourable…
Tagged with: Fourth Estate, Graeme Lay, Issue 108, Nicholas Reid, Penguin, Rosetta Allan, Summer 2014
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Knowing their stuff, Anna Rogers
The Phoenix Song John Sinclair Victoria University Press, $38.00, ISBN 9780864738257 The Secret Life of James Cook: A Novel Graeme Lay HarperCollins, $37.00, ISBN 9781775540120 “It takes a great deal of history,” wrote Henry James in 1879, “to produce a…
Tagged with: Anna Rogers, Graeme Lay, HarperCollins, Issue 103, John Sinclair, Spring 2013, Victoria University Press
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, 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
A million miles from Palmerston North, Linley Boniface
The Miss Tutti Frutti Contest: Travel Tales of the South Pacific Graeme Lay Awa Press, $29.95, ISBN 0958250901 Liars and Lovers: A Travel Memoir Diane Brown Vintage, $26.95, ISBN 1869416147 As a child, I used to read adventure stories featuring…
Tagged with: Awa Press, Diane Brown, Graeme Lay, Issue 66, Linley Boniface, Vintage, Winter 2004
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Speaking frankly of Frank and James K, Stevan Eldred-Grigg
An Affair of the Heart: A Celebration of Frank Sargeson’s Centenary ed Graeme Lay and Stephen Stratford Cape Catley, $49.99, ISBN 0908561938 O Jerusalem – James K Baxter: An Intimate Memoir Mike Minehan Hazard Press, $24.95, ISBN 1877270385 Two icons…
Tagged with: Cape Catley, Frank Sargeson, Graeme Lay, Hazard Press, Issue 59, James K Baxter, Mike Minehan, Spring 2002, Stephen Stratford, Stevan Eldred-Grigg
Posted in Essays, Literature, Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Essays, Literature, Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
“Bugger the dragonflies”, Bernard Carpinter
Shirker Chad Taylor Allen & Unwin, $35, ISBN 0862419026 A defenestration (nice word, eh?) makes an arresting beginning to Chad Taylor’s third novel. Especially as the defenestree is the narrator. Just how Ellerslie Penrose came to be flying out of…
Tagged with: Allen & Unwin, Bernard Carpinter, Cape Catley, Chad Taylor, December 2001, Gian Bordin, Graeme Lay, Issue 51, REA
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Apocalypse Soon, David Hill
Power and Chaos Paula Boock Random House, $14.95, ISBN 1869414357 The Wave Rider Graeme Lay Penguin, $15.95, ISBN 014139028X Red Cliff Bernard Beckett Longacre, $14.95, ISBN 1877135429 A Whistle from the Blunder Diana Noonan Longacre, $14.95, ISBN 1877135402 About…
Tagged with: Bernard Beckett, David Hill, Diana Noonan, Graeme Lay, Issue 47, Longacre, March 2001, Paula Boock, Penguin, Random House
Posted in Children, Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
Posted in Children, Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
Is the book launch dead? Graeme Lay
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