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Careful reading, Jane Stafford

Posted on December 4, 1996 by NZ Books

end of the dry Janet Charman Auckland University Press, $19.95 ISBN 1 86940 146 8 If He’s a Good Dog He’ll Swim Elizabeth Nannestad Auckland University Press, $19.95, ISBN 1 86940 124 7 Both Janet Charman and Elizabeth Nannestad begin…

Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Elizabeth Nannestad, Issue 26, Jane Stafford, Janet Charman, Winter 1996
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review

Telling tales, Tessa Barringer

Posted on December 4, 1996 by NZ Books

Black Light Laura Solomon Tandem Press, $24.95 ISBN 0 908884 80 x The Silicon Tongue Beryl Fletcher Spinifex Press, $24.95 ISBN 1 875559 49 3 On the Grapevine Linda Burgess University of Otago Press, $24.95 ISBN 1 877133 12 4…

Tagged with: Beryl Fletcher, Issue 26, Laura Solomon, Linda Burgess, Spinifex Press, Tandem Press, Tessa Barringer, University of Otago Press, Winter 1996
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review

Cheap Christmases, Diane Hebley

Posted on December 4, 1996 by NZ Books

Owning books is part of the pleasure principle that brings children a lifetime’s development in the understanding of mysteries and complications in the human condition. Children who own books establish long-term relationships with book-creators through frequent rereadings — something much more…

Tagged with: Diane Hebley, Issue 26, Winter 1996
Posted in Children, Literature

Letters – Issue 26

Posted on December 4, 1996 by NZ Books

Not 100% proof Please! … how on earth could your compositor and proof-reader between them get “Heieta” from Heifetz for heaven’s sake!?? If I were more paranoid I’d say it was an attempt at bi-cultural sanitizing of a Russo-Jewish name…

Tagged with: Issue 26, Winter 1996
Posted in Letters