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Blanche Baughan: Selected Writings Damian Love (ed) Erewhon Press, $30,00 ISBN 9780473309435 It is hard work establishing and maintaining a local canon when authors vanish and books slide in and out of print. Moreover, by definition, a canon stretches over…
Where the Rekohu Bone Sings Tina Makereti Vintage, $38.00, ISBN 9781775535188 Twentieth- and 21st-century New Zealand literature contains two utterly different narratives, each incorporating an almost diametrically opposed world view. On the one hand, there is the Pakeha narrative of…
The Luminaries Eleanor Catton Victoria University Press, $35.00, ISBN 9780864738950 This is an extraordinary work. It is over 800 pages long, with a cast of characters to match and an intricately complex plot – or web of plots – revealed…
The Auckland University Press Anthology of New Zealand Literature Jane Stafford and Mark Williams (eds) Auckland University Press, $75.00, ISBN 9781869405892 I have a conflict of interest here: I am one of those writers with a substantial body of published…
The Parihaka Woman Witi Ihimaera Vintage, $38.99, ISBN 9781869797294 New Zealand’s first novel, Taranaki: A Tale of the War, was written by a British (possibly Irish) army officer, Henry Butler Stoney, who served in the conflict. With a speed…
What they wrote A taste of contributor comments over our first 20 years On New Zealand Books My hope is that New Zealand Books will provide a forum for frank discussion that dares to rise above the suffocating confines…
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Alan Knowles,
Barbara Else,
Bernard Carpinter,
Bill Manhire,
Bill Sewell,
Bruce Stewart,
Charles Ferrall,
Chris Else,
Chris Knox,
Christopher Tremewan,
Colin James,
Dale Williams,
David Hill,
Diane Hebley,
Guy Somerset,
Hamish Keith,
Harry Ricketts,
Heather Murray,
Hilary Stace,
Iain Sharp,
Issue 96,
Jane Bowron,
Jane Stafford,
Jane Westaway,
John Campbell,
Linda Burgess,
Linley Boniface,
Mark Williams,
Murray Edmond,
Nelson Wattie,
Peter Wells,
Roger Robinson,
Sue McCauley,
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Tom Beard,
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Floating Worlds: Essays on Contemporary New Zealand Fiction Anna Jackson and Jane Stafford (eds) Victoria University Press, $40.00, ISBN 9780864736017 The increased tempo of public debate in the last decade over issues such as public policy and the arts, canon…
The Angel’s Cut Elizabeth Knox Victoria University Press, $35.00, ISBN 9780864736000 In Elizabeth Knox’s 1998 novel The Vintner’s Luck an old French peasant from 19th century Burgundy who sees the angel Xas is carted off to the asylum; in its…
Fire Deborah Challinor Harper Collins, $39.99, ISBN 9781869506001 Wild Latitudes Barbara Else Vintage, $27.99, ISBN 9781869418670 A Secret Mind Kaye Kelly Black Swan, $27.99, ISBN 978869417819 Sylvia lay awake listening to the mournful cry of a morepork. Another noise, a…
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Black Swan,
Deborah Challinor,
Harper Collins,
Issue 79,
Jane Stafford,
Kaye Kelly,
Spring 2007,
Vintage
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Maoriland: New Zealand Literature 1872-1914 Jane Stafford and Mark Williams Victoria University Press, $39.95, ISBN 0864735227 In this excellent reassessment of an important phase of New Zealand’s literary and cultural history, Jane Stafford and Mark Williams challenge previous views of…
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Elizabeth Webby,
Issue 76,
Jane Stafford,
Mark Williams,
Summer 2006,
Victoria University Press
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