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Beginning with myths

Posted on May 28, 2017 by NZ Books

The novelist Hamish Clayton rereads Lloyd Jones’s The Book of Fame I first read Lloyd Jones’s The Book of Fame soon after it had won the Deutz Medal for fiction, at the then-Montana New Zealand Book Awards in 2001. It…

Tagged with: Hamish Clayton, Issue 118, Lloyd Jones, Winter 2017
Posted in Imprints

Not what they seem, but more so, Lloyd Jones

Posted on March 13, 2016 by NZ Books

The Stories of Bill Manhire Bill Manhire Victoria University Press, $40.00, ISBN 9780864739254 Bill Manhire turns 70 this year, as does another eminent poet of his generation, Ian Wedde. Brian Turner is 72. Vincent O’Sullivan is fast approaching 80. C…

Tagged with: Autumn 2016, Bill Manhire, Issue 113, Lloyd Jones, Victoria University Press
Posted in Literature, Review, Short stories

What are ya, mate? Hugh Roberts

Posted on May 30, 2014 by NZ Books

Pacific Highways (GriffithREVIEW 43) Julianne Schultz and Lloyd Jones (eds) Griffith University, $35.00, ISBN 9781922182241 Is New Zealand peculiarly burdened with the curse of national introspection? Even to pose the question is to succumb to that curse; or perhaps to…

Tagged with: Griffith University, Hugh Roberts, Issue 106, Julianne Schultz, Lloyd Jones, Winter 2014
Posted in Essays, Fiction, Literature, Non-fiction, Poetry, Review, Short stories, Sociology

The ties that bind, Jane Westaway

Posted on December 5, 2013 by NZ Books

The Lie That Settles Peter Farrell Ocean Books, $35.00, ISBN 978192721708 The Lost Pilot Jeffrey Paparoa Holman Penguin, $40.00, ISBN 9781742539201 A History of Silence Lloyd Jones Penguin, $38.00, ISBN 9780143569473 “The cradle rocks above an abyss,” writes Nabokov in…

Tagged with: Issue 104, Jane Westaway, Jeffrey Paparoa Holman, Lloyd Jones, Ocean Books, Penguin, Peter Farrell, Summer 2013
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review

Frightening truths, Elspeth Sandys

Posted on March 1, 2011 by NZ Books

Hand Me Down World Lloyd Jones Penguin Books, $40.00, ISBN 9780143205098 Let me start by nailing my colours to the mast. Despite my aversion to the idea of “best” books, whether it take the form of lists (the top…

Tagged with: Autumn 2011, Elspeth Sandys, Issue 93, Lloyd Jones, Penguin Books
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review

Wandering at will, Margot Schwass

Posted on December 1, 2009 by NZ Books

The Man in the Shed Lloyd Jones Penguin Books, $37.00, ISBN 9780143202509 Fourteen stories spanning nearly two decades are gathered together in this new collection from Lloyd Jones, his first book since Mister Pip. For all their deceptively familiar settings,…

Tagged with: Issue 88, Lloyd Jones, Margot Schwass, Penguin Books, Summer 2009
Posted in Literature, Review, Short stories

The Jones effect, Patrick Evans

Posted on March 1, 2007 by NZ Books

Mister Pip Lloyd Jones Penguin, $35.00, ISBN 9780143020899 Lloyd Jones is the man who wrote a book about a child molester, and no one noticed – what better proof do we need that journalists don’t really read fiction? And yet…

Tagged with: Autumn 2007, Issue 77, Lloyd Jones, Patrick Evans, Penguin
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review

Minding our own beeswax, Barbara Murison

Posted on June 1, 2005 by NZ Books

Everything You Need to Know About the World by Simon Eliot Lloyd Jones, illustrations by Timon Maxey Four Winds Press, $19.95, ISBN 0958251495 From Weta to Kauri: A Guide to the New Zealand Forest Janet Hunt, photographs by Rob Lucas…

Tagged with: Andrew Crowe, Barbara Murison, Four Winds Press, Issue 68, Jennifer Beck, Lloyd Jones, Penguin Books, Random, Rob Lucas, Scholastic, Summer 2004, Timon Maxey
Posted in Biography, Children, Natural History, Non-fiction

Mansfield parked, Lloyd Jones

Posted on March 1, 2004 by NZ Books

Mansfield: A Novel C K Stead Vintage, $26.95, ISBN 1843431769 The short life of Katherine Mansfield has been well picked over. We have the biographies, the critical studies, her own journals and letters. Hardly a year goes by without the…

Tagged with: Autumn 2004, C K Stead, Issue 65, Katherine Mansfield, Lloyd Jones, Vintage
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review

A wink to the grown-ups, Gavin Bishop

Posted on December 1, 2003 by NZ Books

The Night Kite Peter Bland, illustrations by Carl Bland, Mallinson Rendel, $24.95, ISBN 0908783833 Napoleon and the Chicken Farmer Lloyd Jones, illustrations by Graeme Gash, Mallinson Rendel, $29.95, ISBN 0908783752 Cat’s Whiskers – 4 Favourite Lynley Dodd Stories Lynley Dodd…

Tagged with: Carl Bland, Gavin Bishop, Graeme Gash, Issue 64, Lloyd Jones, Lynley Dodd, Mallinson Rendel, Peter Bland, Summer 2003
Posted in Children, Literature, Review