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People like us, Jane Westaway
Holy Days Joy Cowley Penguin, $34.95, ISBN 0141004169 Breakwater Kate Duignan Victoria University Press, $24.95, ISBN 0864734174 Floating the Fish on Bamboo Adrienne Jansen HarperCollins, $24.95, ISBN 1869503988 Domestic realism is the meat and potatoes of contemporary fiction. So it…
Tagged with: Adrienne Jansen, Autumn 2001, HarperCollins, Issue 53, Jane Westaway, Joy Cowley, Kate Duignan, Penguin, Victoria University Press
Posted in Fiction, Literature
Posted in Fiction, Literature
In a minor key, Victoria Carchidi
Classical Music Joy Cowley Penguin, $24.95, ISBN 0 14 028838 4 There ought to be more novels about 50-plus-year-old women. Classical Music, Joy Cowley’s first novel for adults for decades, centres on two sisters, Delia, 58, and Beatrice, 55. The…
Horse whispering, Joan de Hamel
Shadrach Girl Joy Cowley Puffin, $15.95, ISBN 0 14 130899 0 On my eighth birthday I was given a book from a French friend of my parents. It was beautifully bound in pink, with gold lettering, a French children’s classic…
Tagged with: Autumn 1999, Issue 45, Joan de Hamel, Joy Cowley, Puffin
Posted in Children, Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
Posted in Children, Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
On the side of life, David Hill
Dare, Truth or Promise Paula Boock Longacre, $14.95, ISBN 1 8771 35 08 9 The Family Album Helen Beaglehole Cape Catley, $1 6.95, ISBN 0 908561 58 X The Whole of the Moon Duncan Stuart Longacre, $14.95, ISBN 1 8771…
Tagged with: Cape Catley, David Hill, Duncan Stuart, Helen Beaglehole, Issue 33, Joy Cowley, Longacre, Paula Boock, Viking
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
Putting in the bits the author forgets, Lesley Moyes
Beaten by a Balloon Margaret Mahy, illustrated by Jonathan Allan Hamish Hamilton, $29.95, ISBN 0 241 13 778 0 The Bump Joy Cowley, illustrated by Linda McClelland Scholastic, $12.95, ISBN 1 86943 345 9 Nicketty-Nacketty Noo-Noo-Noo Joy Cowley, illustrated by…
Tagged with: Cape Catley, David Christiana, Hamish Hamilton, Issue 33, Jonathan Allan, Joy Cowley, Linda McClelland, Margaret Mahy, Mark Dower, Norman Bilbrough, Scholastic, Tracey Moroney
Posted in Children, Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Children, Fiction, Literature, Review
15 writers: ‘You must read this’
Tell us about the book you want to give everyone for Christmas and/or the book you hope no one gives you for Christmas, we asked twenty-four of our top writers and critics. Fifteen of them dared to respond. Jenny…
Tagged with: Brian Boyd, Charles Croot, David Eggleton, Fiona Kidman, Geoff Chapple, Issue 7, Jenny Bornholdt, Joy Cowley, Kevin Ireland, Michael King, Owen Marshall, Peter Wells, Shonagh Koea, Stephanie Johnson, Summer 1992, Tessa Duder, Witi Ihimaera
Posted in Opinion
Posted in Opinion