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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…

Tagged with: Ian Richards, Issue 68, Jill Trevelyan, June 2005, Te Papa Press
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…

Tagged with: Ian Richards, Issue 48, June 2001, Penguin Books, Tina Shaw
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review

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…

Tagged with: David Ling, Ian Richards, Issue 39, Maurice Shadbolt, O E Middleton, Steele Roberts
Posted in Literature, Review, Short stories

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…

Tagged with: Ian Richards, Issue 7, Oxford University Press, Summer 1992, Vincent O’Sullivan
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, Short stories

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,…

Tagged with: Catherine Delahunty, Godwit, Ian Richards, Lawrence Jones, Penguin, Peter Wells, Reed Pacific Writers Series
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Short stories