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The place where stories begin, Paula Morris
Chappy Patricia Grace Penguin, $38.00, ISBN 9780143572398 It’s over a decade since Patricia Grace’s last novel, the moving, cinematic Tu – an ambitious book about war and its temptations, adventures and devastations for the men who went and the families…
Tagged with: Issue 111, Patricia Grace, Paula Morris, Penguin, Spring 2015
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Love and war, Christine Johnston
Ned and Katina: A True Love Story Patricia Grace Penguin Books, $40.00, ISBN 9780143007401 Who could resist a love story set on Crete in 1945? Obviously Patricia Grace couldn’t. The celebrated author was approached by Ned’s and Katina’s family with…
Tagged with: Autumn 2010, Christine Johnston, Issue 89, Patricia Grace, Penguin Books
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
For God, King and country, Chris Else
Tu Patricia Grace Penguin, $35, ISBN 0143019201 Certain battles mark themselves on the popular imagination. The most evocative are often not great victories but failed assaults, especially those with a touch of futility about them: the Charge of the Light…
Tagged with: Chris Else, Issue 66, Patricia Grace, Penguin, Winter 2004
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Nose in a book, Patricia Grace
Recently, when I called in to see my brother, we looked through a box of books and other items that were all in some way associated with our father. My father grew up in a small community where I often…
Tough grace, Simone Drichel
Dogside Story Patricia Grace Penguin, $34.95, ISBN 0141004193 In her long career as a writer of both novels and short fiction, Patricia Grace has shown remarkable consistency in her publishing pattern: invariably, the publication of a collection of short stories…
Tagged with: Issue 50, October 2001, Patricia Grace, Penguin, Simone Drichel
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Standing alone? Reina Whaitiri
Alan Duff’s Maori Heroes Random House, $39.95, ISBN 186941425X Wahine Toa: Women of Maori Myth Robyn Kahukiwa & Patricia Grace Penguin, $31.00, ISBN 0670839418 Alan Duff’s Maori Heroes features 58 men and women from a range of professions and…
Tagged with: Alan Duff, December 2000, Issue 46, Patricia Grace, Penguin, Random House, Robyn Kahukiwa
Posted in Biography, Gender, History, Māori, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Gender, History, Māori, Non-fiction, Review
Subtle use of myth, Nelson Wattie
Baby No-Eyes Patricia Grace Penguin, $29.95, ISBN 0 14 027993 8 In Writing Along Broken Lines: Violence and Ethnicity in Contemporary Maori Fiction {reviewed on p22], Otto Heim expresses surprise that writers like Patricia Grace and Witi Ihimaera have shocked…
Tagged with: Issue 37, Nelson Wattie, Patricia Grace, Penguin Books
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Liz DeLoughrey and Susan Hall interview Patricia Grace
Liz DeLoughrey (LD): Could you speak about your new novel [Baby No-Eyes]? Patricia Grace (PG): Oh, yes, if you want to ask some questions and we’ll see if I can remember it well enough to answer! (laughter) LD: I was…