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Bury my heart in the Maniototo, Laura Kroetsch
Speaking for Themselves: Ex-pats Have Their Say Jan Morgan Cape Catley, $29.99, ISBN 9781877340123 Visitors to New Zealand are asked, not long after arrival, a little question that comes up again and again – “So, what do you think of…
Tagged with: Cape Catley, Issue 83, Jan Morgan, Laura Kroetsch, Spring 2008
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Truth vs the good story, Laura Kroetsch
Barbed Wire Between Us: A story of love and war Derek Round Random House, $29.95, ISBN 1869415248 Last of the Whalers: Charlie Heberley’s Story Heather Heberley Cape Catley, $29.95, ISBN 0908561903 In Search of Elisa Marchetti: A Writer’s Search for…
Tagged with: Cape Catley, Derek Round, Gondwanaland Press, Heather Heberley, Issue 59, Laura Kroetsch, Penguin, Random House, Robin Allardyce, Spring 2002, Susan Price, Tessa Duder
Posted in Autobiography, Biography, History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Autobiography, Biography, History, Non-fiction, Review
Laying ghost, Laura Kroetsch
Haunt Bronwyn Bannister Otago University Press, $24.95, ISBN 1877133841 Between Black and White Eirlys Hunter Vintage, $24.95, ISBN 1869414284 I find that when reading a first novel I often flick to the little publisher logo on the spine. I acknowledge…
Tagged with: Bronwyn Bannister, Eirlys Hunter, Issue 48, June 2001, Laura Kroetsch, Otago University Press, Vintage
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Editorial – Issue 35
Guest editorial: No longer Charing Cross Road Once upon a time New Zealand had a fortress economy and by all accounts life was good but you couldn’t actually buy much. I didn’t live here then, but know from my own…
A book reader; what else? Laura Kroetsch
The Dominion of Signs Nick Perry, Auckland University Press, $34.95 A few weeks ago a debate appeared in the Times Higher Education Supplement which Colin MacCabe (head of research and education at the British Film Institute) and Graham McCann (a…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Autumn 1995, Issue 17, Laura Kroetsch, Nick Perry, Winter 1995
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Real‑life stories? Laura Kroetsch
Other Voices 3: Lifestories Ruth and Oz Kraus (eds), Brick Row/ Hallard Press, $19.95 Other Voices 3: Lifestories is one of those books you read and, midway through the page, stop, grab the phone and call anyone you can. It…
Tagged with: Brick Row Publishing, Hallard Press, Issue 10, Laura Kroetsch, Oz Kraus, Ruth Kraus, Spring 1993
Posted in Biography, Essays, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Essays, Non-fiction, Review
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