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Reality checks, Howard Warner

Posted on August 11, 1997 by NZ Books

Telling Stories Geoff Palmer Secker & Warburg, $24.95, ISBN 0 7900 0463 1 Finding Home Dominic Sheehan Secker & Warburg, $19.95, ISBN 0 7900 0462 3 The Transfiguration of Martha Friend Noel Virtue Vintage, $24.95, ISBN 1 86941 303 2…

Tagged with: Autumn 1997, Dominic Sheehan, Geoff Palmer, Howard Warner, Issue 29, Noel Virtue, Secker & Warburg, Vintage
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review

At last, some mayhem, Howard Warner

Posted on March 4, 1997 by NZ Books

Mr Halliday and the Circus Master James McNeish David Ling, $19.95, ISBN 0 908990 38 3 The Opawa Affair Edmund Bohan Hazard Press, $19.95, ISBN 0 908790 61 9 Payday in Saudi Selwyn Carson Arrow, $17.95, ISBN 1 86941 285…

Tagged with: Arrow, David Ling, Edmund Bohan, Hazard Press, Howard Warner, Issue 27, James McNeish, Selwyn Carson, Winter 1997
Posted in Fiction, 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

The logology of aa to zz, Howard Warner

Posted on March 7, 1996 by NZ Books

The Dictionary of Two‑Letter Words in English Jeff Grant Glenda Foster, no price given, no ISBN Available from the author, Waipatu Settlement Road, RD2, Hastings Did you know that the American spelling “ax” existed in English long before “axe” did?…

Tagged with: Glenda Foster, Howard Warner, Issue 22, Jeff Grant
Posted in Language, Non-fiction, Review