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Faint hopes and the self, Heather Murray

Posted on March 4, 1997 by NZ Books

Proud Garments Barbara Anderson Victoria University Press, $24.95, ISBN 0 86473 316 X Proud Garments is a perfect novel for the end of a century, an elegy for an age, not going out with the atomic bang we might once…

Tagged with: Barbara Anderson, Heather Murray, Issue 27, Victoria University Press, Winter 1997
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review

Finding herself, Heather Murray

Posted on December 24, 1996 by NZ Books

Motherland Yvonne du Fresne Penguin, $24.95, ISBN 0 140 26038 2 For a nation which has for so long depended upon a steady stream of new migrants, New Zealand has a very poor record of making them feel welcome. Our…

Tagged with: Heather Murray, Issue 26, Penguin Books, Winter 1996, Yvonne du Fresne
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review

Myths of reason and culture, Heather Murray

Posted on October 30, 1996 by NZ Books

The Heart’s Wild Surf Stephanie Johnson Vintage/Random House, $24.95, ISBN 1 86941 278 8 A Fancy Man Sue McCauley Vintage/Random House, $24.95, ISBN 1 86941 283 4 The Wedding at Bueno-Vista Shonagh Koea Vintage/Random House, $24.95, ISBN 1 86941 282…

Tagged with: Autumn 1996, Heather Murray, Issue 25, Shonagh Koea, Stephanie Johnson, Sue McCauley, Vintage/Random House
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review

Never mind the quality, Heather Murray

Posted on August 8, 1996 by NZ Books

The Journal Box Elizabeth Smither Auckland University Press, $34.95 ISBN 1869401425 Long an admirer of Elizabeth Smither’s poetry and encouraged by a dustjacket claim that The Journal Box contains “marvellous pieces of writing … comparable in quality to the autobiographical…

Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Elizabeth Smither, Heather Murray, Issue 24
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review

One useful, one not, Heather Murray

Posted on June 8, 1996 by NZ Books

The Critical Response to Katherine Mansfield Jan Pilditch (ed) Greenwood Press, United States, $55 ISBN 0 313 290644 Katherine Mansfield: A “Do You Remember” Life, Four Stories with an Illustrated Introduction Gillian Boddy Victoria University Press with the Katherine Mansfield…

Tagged with: Gillian Boddy, Greenwood Press, Heather Murray, Issue 23, Jan Pilditch, Katherine Mansfield, Katherine Mansfield Birthplace Society, Spring 1996, Victoria University Press
Posted in Literature, Review

Time of energy and change, Howard Warner

Posted on March 17, 1996 by NZ Books

The Picador Book of Contemporary New Zealand Fiction Fergus Barrowman (ed) Picador $24.95 ISBN 0330 339966 From the Mainland: An Anthology of South Island Writing Lawrence Jones and Heather Murray (eds) Godwit $29.95 ISBN 0908877 501 Between the publishing histories…

Tagged with: Fergus Barrowman, Godwit, Heather Murray, Howard Warner, Issue 22, Lawrence Jones, Picador
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Short stories

Local practice v wider trends, Stuart Murray

Posted on October 7, 1995 by NZ Books

Opening the Book: New Essays on New Zealand Writing Mark Williams and Michele Leggott (eds) Auckland University Press, $39.95, ISBN 1869401158 Ending the Silences: Critical Essays on the Works of Maurice Shadbolt Ralph J Crane (ed) Hodder Moa Beckett, $24.95,…

Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Heather Murray, Hodder Moa Beckett, Issue 20, Lawrence Jones, Mark Williams, Maurice Shadbolt, Michele Leggott, Ralph J Crane, Stuart Murray, Summer 1995, University of Otago English Department
Posted in Literature, Review

Of an age, Heather Murray

Posted on October 7, 1995 by NZ Books

River Lines Elspeth Sandys Hodder Moa Beckett, $29.95, ISBN 3 4059998 7 Leather Wings Marilyn Duckworth Random House Vintage, $24.95, ISBN 1 86941 261 3 Zoology Sheridan Keith Penguin, $24.95, ISBN 0 14025281 9 The House Guest Barbara Anderson Victoria…

Tagged with: Barbara Anderson, Elspeth Sandys, Heather Murray, Hodder Moa Beckett, Issue 20, Marilyn Duckworth, Penguin, Random House Vintage, Sheridan Keith, Summer 1995, Victoria University Press
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review

Fantastic account, Heather Murray

Posted on August 27, 1995 by NZ Books

Tasman’s Lay Peter Hawes Hazard Press, $24.95 ISBN 0 908790 52 X Tin Nimbus Geoff Cochrane Victoria University Press, $24.95 ISBN 0 86473 279 1 The Warrior Queen Barbara Else Godwit Publishing, $19.95, ISBN 0 908877 61 7 Remains of…

Tagged with: Barbara Else, Elizabeth Sheppard, Geoff Cochrane, Godwit Publishing, Hazard Press, Heather Murray, Issue 19, Peter Hawes, Spring 1995, Victoria University Press, Vintage Random
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review

Women among the puritans, Heather Murray

Posted on December 22, 1994 by NZ Books

A Barbarous Tongue Marilyn Duckworth Vintage New Zealand (first pub Hutchinson & Co, 1963), $24.95 Fooling Marilyn Duckworth Hazard Press, $9.95 Marilyn Duckworth stands alone in New Zealand fiction, occupying a lofty and lonely spot few others have had the…

Tagged with: Hazard Press, Heather Murray, Issue 16, Marilyn Duckworth, Summer 1994, Vintage New Zealand
Posted in Fiction, Literature