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Nosing out the story, Lawrence Patchett

Posted on November 29, 2017 by NZ Books
Breaking Ranks: Three Interrupted Lives James McNeish HarperCollins, $35.00, ISBN 9781775540908 Partway through Breaking Ranks: Three Interrupted Lives, James McNeish stops his narrative to admit his own bias. “At this point,” he writes, “I had better come clean and declare…
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That foreign country the past, Nicholas Reid

Posted on September 1, 2012 by NZ Books
I Got His Blood on Me Lawrence Patchett Victoria University Press, $35.00, ISBN 9780864737687   Who has whose blood on him? The narrator of the title story I Got His Blood on Me is smeared with the blood of an…
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Posted in Literature, Review, Short stories

Being Minnie, Lawrence Patchett

Posted on September 1, 2012 by NZ Books
The Day She Cradled Me Sacha de Bazin Black Swan, $38.00, ISBN 9781869797744   The Day She Cradled Me is about Minnie Dean, the Southland “baby-farmer” hanged for infanticide in 1895. Therefore it has the problem of any such novel…
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Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
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