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Blood memories, Natasha Templeton

Posted on October 1, 2001 by NZ Books

Never Lost For Words: Stories and Memories Amelia Batistich Auckland University Press, $29.95, ISBN 1869402464 Never Lost For Words is in part a memoir illustrated with snapshots from family albums, in part a collection of short stories triggered by events…

Tagged with: Issue 50, Natasha Templeton, October 2001
Posted in Autobiography, Literature, Non-fiction, Review, Short stories

“These Russians”, Natasha Templeton

Posted on March 1, 2001 by NZ Books

Katerina: The Russian World of Katherine Mansfield Joanna Woods Penguin, $39.95, ISBN 0143018051 Manhattan. The buildings of Columbia merge into midwinter murk. I enter a warm cave of bookshelves. In the beam of a desk lamp, Rufus W Mathewson is…

Tagged with: Autumn 2001, Issue 53, Joanna Woods, Natasha Templeton, Penguin
Posted in Biography, Literature, Non-fiction, Review

Too grand by half, Iain Sharp

Posted on June 27, 1995 by NZ Books

Firebird Natasha Templeton Hodder Headline, $29.95, ISBN 0340 640448 I admire the pluck with which Natasha Templeton has striven to make her first novel a grand Russian affair, almost a New Zealand War and Peace ‑ with a large cast,…

Tagged with: Hodder Headline, Issue 18, Natasha Templeton, Winter 1995
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review