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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…