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“The frequent flyer friar” John McCrystal
Nailing Down The Saint Craig Cliff Penguin Random House, $38.00, ISBN 9780143773740 Those familiar with Craig Cliff’s work will know that he is fond of a kooky premise – a starting-off point that allows him to tread the blurred line…
Tagged with: Craig Cliff, Issue 128, John McCrystal, Penguin Random House, Summer 2019
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Playing at home, John McCrystal
Pearly Gates: A Novel Owen Marshall Vintage, $38.00, ISBN 9780143773153 “Pride goeth before a fall”, so the proverb runs, “and an haughty spirit before destruction”. The prideful one in Owen Marshall’s latest novel is Pat Gates, universally known as “Pearly”.…
Tagged with: Issue 126, John McCrystal, Owen Marshall, Vintage, Winter 2019
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Where perspectives collide, John McCrystal
The Imaginary Lives of James Pōneke Tina Makereti Vintage, $38.00, ISBN 9780143771562 You don’t have to be a good old-fashioned structuralist to look into the patterns of history and see the tectonic grind of ideas reflected in the rippling of…
Tagged with: Issue 124, John McCrystal, Summer 2018, Tina Makereti, Vintage
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The grimness of contemporary realism, John McCrystal
Five Strings Apirana Taylor Anahera Press, $35.00, ISBN 9780473389482 Iceland Dominic Hoey Steele Roberts, $35.00, ISBN 978094749343I It’s that time of the three-yearly cycle again. A billboard has gone up near my house promoting the political party that has, for…
Tagged with: Anahera Press, Apirana Taylor, Dominic Hoey, Issue 119, John McCrystal, Spring 2017, Steele Roberts
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Mysteries past and present, John McCrystal
Days are like Grass Sue Younger Eunoia Publishing, $30.00, ISBN 9780994104762 Mysterious Mysteries of the Aro Valley Danyl McLauchlan Victoria University Press, $30.00, ISBN 9781776560479 Claire is a paediatric surgeon, newly returned to Auckland, city of her birth, from London,…
Tagged with: Autumn 2017, Danyl McLauchlan, Eunoia Publishing, Issue 117, John McCrystal, Sue Younger, Victoria University Press
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Unearthing skeletons, John McCrystal
Daughters of Messene Maggie Rainey-Smith Mākaro Press, $35.00, ISBN 9780994117267 Something Else David Parkyn (Sally Griffin illus) Piedog Press, $38.00, ISBN 9780473321505 “There are only two or three human stories,” as Willa Cather once said, “and they go on repeating…
Tagged with: David Parkyn, Issue 114, John McCrystal, Maggie Rainey-Smith, Mākaro Press, Piedog Press, Sally Griffin, Winter 2016
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“Shocking the model” John McCrystal
Five Minutes Alone Paul Cleave Penguin, $38.00, ISBN 9780143572312 The Legend of Winstone Blackhat Tanya Moir Vintage, $38.00, ISBN 9781775537755 MiSTORY Philip Temple Font Publishing, $35.00, ISBN 978047328204 You could argue that the artistic imagination is like one of those…
Tagged with: Font Publishing, Issue 110, John McCrystal, Paul Cleave, Penguin, Philip Temple, Tanya Moir, Vintage, Winter 2015
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Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Reverse engineering, John McCrystal
The Infinite Air Fiona Kidman Vintage ISBN 9781869797928 Of all the technological accomplishments in a century studded with them, the advances made in heavier-than-air aviation between 1903 and 1939 must have seemed to those alive at the time to be…
Tagged with: Fiona Kidman, Issue 107, John McCrystal, Spring 2014, Vintage
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Changes of heart and mind, John McCrystal
Pentimento Rosemary Wildblood Wily Publications, $30.00, ISBN 9781927167090 The Fall of Light Sarah Laing Vintage, $38.00, ISBN 9781775533030 Settling into a novel can be a lot like going away on holiday with people you don’t know, or settling into a…
Tagged with: Issue 104, John McCrystal, Rosemary Wildblood, Sarah Laing, Summer 2013, Vintage, Wily Publications
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Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
The great sucking void, John McCrystal
Soon Charlotte Grimshaw Vintage, $38.00, ISBN 9781869799984 Ever since the 1999 publication of her first novel, Provocation, Charlotte Grimshaw’s writing has attracted a cloud of admirers and a liberal garnishing of awards. She is a novelist by instinct, if not…
Tagged with: Autumn 2013, Charlotte Grimshaw, Issue 101, John McCrystal, Vintage
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