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Elusive birds beautifully depicted, Pat Quinn
Moa: The Story of a Fabulous Bird PhilipTemple and Chris Gaskin, Hodder & Stoughton, $11.95 Old Blue: The Rarest Bird in the World Mary Taylor, Ashton Scholastic, $19.95 The South Island ‘sightings’ of the elusive moa provide a timely context…
Tagged with: Ashton Scholastic, Chris Gaskin, Hodder & Stoughton, Issue 10, Mary Taylor, PhilipTemple, Spring 1993
Posted in Children, Natural History, Review
Posted in Children, Natural History, Review
Modern Helen of Troy disappoints, Stephanie Edmond
The Iron Mouth Beryl Fletcher, Daphne Brasell Associates Press, $32.95 The Iron Mouth, Beryl Fletcher’s second story in a trilogy of feminist novels, is written on two levels. On one level, it is a simple novel about a crowd of…
Tagged with: Beryl Fletcher, Daphne Brasell Associates Press, Issue 10, Spring 1993, Stephanie Edmond
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
A kiwi space drama, Trevor Agnew
Deepwater Landing Ken Catran, Harper Collins (Tui), $14.95 Ken Catran is the unsung artisan of young adult writing in this country. He has been writing television scripts (Children of the Dog Star), novels (Steel riders) and film scripts (Alex) for…
Tagged with: Harper Collins, Issue 10, Ken Catran, Spring 1993, Trevor Agnew
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
Inner worlds, outer worlds, Jane Parkin
Seeing Red Marilyn Duckworth, Vintage, $19.95 Fifteen Rubies by Candlelight Shonagh Koea, Vintage, $19.95 Reading Shonagh Koea’s stories in Fifteen Rubies by Candlelight is like sampling a box of good, rich chocolates. Read (or eat) too many at once and…
Tagged with: Issue 10, Jane Parkin, Marilyn Duckworth, Shonagh Koea, Spring 1993, Vintage
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Vivid pictures of 19th century New Zealand, Kay Harrison
Swag and Tucker Margaret Hall, McIndoe Publishers, $18.95 The Runaway Settlers Elsie Locke, Hazard Press, $16.95 These delightful books, set in New Zealand’s colonial days, bring to life the harsh and tender experiences of families in the New Zealand of…
Tagged with: Elsie Locke, Hazard Press, Issue 10, Kay Harrison, Margaret Hall, McIndoe Publishers, Spring 1993
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
Beach holiday is a convoluted affair, The Monday Book Group
Last Summer Gaelyn Gordon, David Ling Publishing, $24.95 Gaelyn Gordon writes well enough, and this, her third book for adults (she has previously written for children), is a ripping yarn. The simple quality of her writing is perhaps intended as…
Tagged with: David Ling Publishing, Gaelyn Gordon, Issue 10, Spring 1993
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Reinterpreting the old tales, Anne Else
Sasscat to Win Paula Boock, McIndoe Publishers, $16.95 Adoption in some form has long been a staple of story-telling for the young – especially where it concerns a goosegirl or a ploughboy who are brought up by peasants, but turn…
Tagged with: Anne Else, Issue 10, McIndoe Publishers, Paula Boock, Spring 1993
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Young adults
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Young adults
Living on the edge, Brett Mason
He Tangi Aroha: A Cry for Love Apirana Taylor, Huia Publishers, $29.95 The Eye of the Everlasting Angel Noel Virtue, Vintage, $19.95 1990. Lest we forget. 150 years. How could we forget? But it was a year no one seemed…
Tagged with: Apirana Taylor, Brett Mason, Huia Publishers, Issue 10, Noel Virtue, Spring 1993, Vintage
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Strength of character, Jenny Buist
Against the Tide Fleur Beale, HarperCollins (Tui), $12.95 A Time To Choose Jacqui Sutton Beets, HarperCollins (Tui), $14.95 At a time of high consciousness over whether the central characters of new teenage fiction are female or male it is encouraging…
Tagged with: Fleur Beale, HarperCollins, Issue 10, Jacqui Sutton Beets, Jenny Buist, Spring 1993
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Young adults
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Young adults
Charting life and death, Rebecca Simpson
Daisy and Lily Renée, Penguin, $24.95 The blurb on the back of Renée’s new novel, Daisy and Lily, announces that ‘Renée has created a world which is part biography, part elegy, part robust stand-up comedy, all leavened with lively good…
Tagged with: Issue 10, Penguin, Rebecca Simpson, Renée, Spring 1993
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review