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Lies, damned lies, and fiction, Mark Broatch
False River Paula Morris Penguin, $35.00 ISBN 9780143771630 A couple of years ago I asked English essayist and novelist Geoff Dyer if he thought a man he and his wife picked up while driving through a desert in the United…
Tagged with: Autumn 2018, Issue 121, Mark Broatch, Paula Morris, Penguin Books
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Walking in more than one world, Paula Morris
Being Chinese Helene Wong Bridget Williams Books, $40.00, ISBN 9780947492380 Going Places: Migration, Economics and the Future of New Zealand Julie Fry and Hayden Glass BWB Texts, $15.00, ISBN 9780947492694 The First Migration: Maori Origins 3000 BC – AD 1450…
Tagged with: Atholl Anderson, Bridget Williams Books, BWB Texts, Hayden Glass, Helene Wong, Huia, Issue 116, Julie Fry, Linitā Manu’atu, Marilyn McPherson, Mere Kēpa, Paula Morris, Summer 2016
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Looking for home, David Cohen
Barefoot Years Martin Edmond Bridget Williams Books, $15.00, ISBN 9781927277676 On Coming Home Paula Morris Bridget Williams Books, $15.00, ISBN 9780908321117 Somewhere in the course of his perceptive career, in what one assumes was a more or less idle moment,…
Tagged with: Bridget Williams Books, David Cohen, Issue 111, Martin Edmond, Paula Morris, Spring 2015
Posted in Essays, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Essays, Non-fiction, Review
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
Sex-free romance and YA cred, Paula Morris
Bugs Whiti Hereaka Huia, $25.00, ISBN 9781775501336 When We Wake Karen Healey Allen & Unwin, $22.00, ISBN 9781742378084 Awakening Natalie King Penguin, $20.00, ISBN 9780143570790 Bugs, the eponymous protagonist of Whiti Hereaka’s first YA novel, is unimpressed with much of…
Tagged with: Allen & Unwin, Huia, Issue 108, Karen Healey, Natalie King, Paula Morris, Penguin, Summer 2014, Whiti Hereaka
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
How they probably thought, Nicholas Reid
Rangatira Paula Morris Penguin Books, $30.00, ISBN 978014565758 What is the value to us of historical novels? They are valuable only when they try to reconstruct the mentality of the past. Second-rate historical novels dress up modern characters in…
Tagged with: Autumn 2012, Issue 97, Nicholas Reid, Paula Morris, Penguin Books
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
“Awesome”. Or not — Paula Morris
Paula Morris works hard at presenting reviewers with the other cheek. It’s 10 years since I wrote my first novel, Queen of Beauty, which makes it nine years since the book was published, and I started getting reviews. Only nine…
Tea and sympathy, Paula Morris
Lola Elizabeth Smither Penguin Books, $30.00, ISBN 9780143203650 Elizabeth Smither’s last novel was called Different Kinds of Pleasure, and its title offers a clue to the approach she takes in her fiction, and also to what she expects of her…
Tagged with: Elizabeth Smither, Issue 91, Paula Morris, Penguin Books, Spring 2010
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Supporting a long-haul life of writing, Paula Morris
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