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According to Toss, Ian Richards

Posted on June 1, 2005 by NZ Books
Toss Woollaston: A Life in Letters ed Jill Trevelyan Te Papa Press, $59.99, ISBN 0909010072 The first thing you notice about this handsomely produced volume from Te Papa Press is the title Woollaston, in large red letters, running down the…
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Posted in Biography, Letters, Non-fiction, Review

Story time, Ian Richards

Posted on June 1, 2001 by NZ Books
City of Reeds  Tina Shaw Penguin Books, $24.95, ISBN 014029791X City of Reeds, Tina Shaw’s third novel, is a large and accomplished work. It’s an example of a relatively new departure in New Zealand fiction: the story-telling novel. This sort…
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Out of the time-capsule, Ian Richards

Posted on August 27, 1999 by NZ Books
The Big Room and Other Stories O E Middleton Steele Roberts, $24.95, ISBN 1 877 22804 4 Selected Stories Maurice Shadbolt David Ling, $29.95, ISBN 0 908 99056 1 These are collections of short stories by two of the old…
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“More or less lovely”, Owen Marshall

Posted on June 5, 1998 by NZ Books
To bed at noon: the life and art of Maurice Duggan Ian Richards Auckland University Press $49.95 ISBN 1 86940159 X There was a changing of the guard in New Zealand literature in the seventies and eighties, and one sign…
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Fleeting glimpses, Ian Richards

Posted on June 5, 1998 by NZ Books
The Peacocks Barbara Anderson Victoria University Press $29.95 ISBN 0 86473 333 X An early graduate of Bill Manhire’s writing course, Barbara Anderson has risen in New Zealand literature in a fashion that has been as meteoric as it is…
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Who to leave out – at last, Ian Richards

Posted on December 1, 1992 by NZ Books
The Oxford Book of New Zealand Short Stories Vincent O’Sullivan (ed), Oxford University Press, $39.95 Anthologies used to be an occasion for cautious celebration in the New Zealand literary circle. Historical anthologies clearly showed that with every writer we were…
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Significant short stories, Lawrence Jones

Posted on July 1, 1992 by NZ Books
Past Light Catherine Delahunty, Penguin, Auckland, 1992, $24.95 Dangerous Desires Peter Wells, Reed Pacific Writers Series, Auckland, 1991, $24.95 Everyday Life in Paradise Ian Richards, Godwit, Auckland, 1991, $24.95 Activity in the New Zealand short story has been intense recently,…
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