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Editorial – Issue 119
Local colour As you can see, Issue 119 of New Zealand Books Pukapuka Aotearoa comes to you in an exciting, new version, slightly smaller in size, but with eight more pages, and in colour throughout. We hope you like the…
People and places, Louise O’Brien
A Surfeit of Sunsets Dulcie Castree Mākaro Press, $35.00, ISBN 9780994123787 The Earth Cries Out Bonnie Etherington Vintage, $38.00, ISBN 9780143770657 In the late Dulcie Castree’s novel, Shirley abandons her sophisticated life in Wellington in favour of the small seaside…
Tagged with: Bonnie Etherington, Dulcie Castree, Issue 119, Louise O’Brien, Mākaro Press, Spring 2017, Vintage
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Editorial – Issue 117
Reeling them in It’s been a year since Peppercorn Press and New Zealand Books Pukapuka Aotearoa launched Hooked on NZ Books, www.hookedonbooks.org.nz, a website designed to encourage, nurture and publish young reviewers reading New Zealand books. During our first year, …
Editorial – Issue 115
Taking it personally Recent conversations about the state of reviewing in New Zealand have been dominated by demands, sometimes pleas, that reviewers be brave and honest. Of course. We, too, at New Zealand Books Pukapuka Aotearoa look for bravery and…
Editorial – Issue 110
Obligatory piety We don’t know whether, like us, others are feeling a certain uneasiness at the direction the WWI/Anzac centenary commemorations (often celebrations) are taking. That the platoons of books regularly pouring off the presses, here and overseas, that the…
Myself alone, Louise O’Brien
Landscape with Solitary Figure Shonagh Koea Vintage, $30.00, ISBN 9781775535881 Shonagh Koea’s novel Landscape with Solitary Figure is concerned with themes of domestic trauma, emotional unhappiness, withdrawal and solitude, written with a careful attention to detail which mires the reader…
Tagged with: Autumn 2015, Issue 109, Louise O’Brien, Shonagh Koea, Vintage
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Editorial – Issue 105
Something old, something new Between us, we have noticed – with a progression of interest, appetite, and increasing alarm, rather swiftly replaced by boredom – a growing body of new novels that look very much like the old. Sequels, prequels,…
What’s been lost, Louise O’Brien
The Silence Beyond: Selected Writings Michael King (introduction by Rachael King) Penguin, $42.00, ISBN 9780143565567 The Passionless People Revisited Gordon McLauchlan David Bateman, $30.00, ISBN 9781869537906 The Silence Beyond is a new and posthumous selection of rare and…
Tagged with: David Bateman, Gordon McLauchlan, Issue 99, Louise O’Brien, Michael King, Penguin, Rachael King, Spring 2012
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Ths pm is lk a brkn cty, Louise O’Brien
The Broken Book Fiona Farrell Auckland University Press, $34.99, ISBN 9781869405762 Renowned for her short fiction, novels, poetry and plays, Fiona Farrell’s distinguished writing career earned her the 2007 New Zealand Prime Minister’s Award for Fiction. This latest work,…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Autumn 2012, Fiona Farrell, Issue 97, Louise O’Brien
Posted in Essays, Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Essays, Literature, Poetry, Review
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