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The Luminaries, Eleanor Catton
An extract from Eleanor Catton’s new novel. Mercury in Sagittarius (January 27, 1866) The 12 men congregated in the smoking-room of the Crown Hotel gave the impression of a party accidentally met. For all their variety of comportment and dress…
Letters – Issue 96
Not a bar of it The cover of the Spring 2011 issue of NZB announces that “Elspeth Sandys keeps time with Quigley’s The Conductor”, but her disappointingly thin review falls short of doing justice to this complex and satisfying novel. …
Poem – Bill Manhire
A return after Milosz Stuff I believed in, gone; rules and other things – the stuff of song. I woke up feeling funny with no clothes on. Professors paraded in Greek, dreaming of oak and pine; the Leith wandered its…
Poem – Paula Green
1984 Copernicus has no idea what to cook for dinner or whether to change into something cooler. He can’t stop thinking about books that have changed his life. You were twenty-nine and saw no signs of mind control 24 hour…
Reframing, Timothy G Jones
The Frame Function: An Inside-out Guide to the Novels of Janet Frame Jan Cronin Auckland University Press, $49.99, ISBN 9781869404864 The Frame Function, Jan Cronin’s new monograph treating the novels of Janet Frame, is not the book it appears…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Issue 96, Jan Cronin, Janet Frame, Summer 2011, Timothy G Jones
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Hums, James Brown
James Brown looks back at A A Milne’s classic books for children. The World of Pooh is my all-time favourite formative book. This is a collection containing A A Milne’s two Pooh books – Winnie-the-Pooh and The House at Pooh…
Not on the Cromwell Road, Margot Schwass
Margot Schwass travels A Long Way from Verona with Jane Gardam. It was the school holidays; I was 12 or so, much given to moping about and staring fruitlessly out of windows when I had nothing to read. This of…
Tagged with: Issue 96, Jane Gardam, Margot Schwass, Summer 2011
Posted in Imprints, Literature, Young adults
Posted in Imprints, Literature, Young adults
Raw edges of wonder, Janet Hughes
The Hill of Wool Jenny Bornholdt Victoria University Press, $25.00, ISBN 9780864736529 Thicket Anna Jackson Auckland University Press, $24.99, ISBN 9871869404826 Aloe Diana Bridge Auckland University Press, $24.99, ISBN 98718669404413 The Leaf Ride Dinah Hawken Victoria University…
Tagged with: Airini Beautrais, Anna Jackson, Auckland University Press, Diana Bridge, Dinah Hawken, Issue 96, Janet Hughes, Jenny Bornholdt, Summer 2011, Victoria University Press
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
“Awesome”. Or not — Paula Morris
Paula Morris works hard at presenting reviewers with the other cheek. It’s 10 years since I wrote my first novel, Queen of Beauty, which makes it nine years since the book was published, and I started getting reviews. Only nine…
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Bookmaking, Chris Brickell
Posted in Comment, ebooks