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Sweet and upbeat, Paula Morris
The 10pm Question Kate De Goldi Longacre Press, $29.99, ISBN 978977460203 “Every family has a secret,” says Alan Bennett, “and the secret is that it’s not like other families.” For Frankie Parsons, the clever, neurotic hero of Kate De Goldi’s…
Tagged with: Autumn 2009, Issue 85, Kate De Goldi, Longacre Press, Paula Morris
Posted in Literature, Review, Young adults
Posted in Literature, Review, Young adults
Friends and other strangers, Murray Bramwell
Playing Friends Marilyn Duckworth Vintage, $27.99, ISBN 9781869418694 Trendy But Casual Paula Morris Penguin Books, $28.00, ISBN 9780143006398 It’s that time in later middle age when school reunions have become like a dawn (or twilight) parade of veterans and survivors.…
Tagged with: Autumn 2008, Issue 81, Marilyn Duckworth, Murray Bramwell, Paula Morris, Penguin Books, Vintage
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Getting a handle on it, Paula Morris
Crown Lynn: A New Zealand Icon Valerie Ringer Monk Penguin, $45.00, ISBN 0143020633 Crown Lynn, Valerie Ringer Monk’s articulate account of New Zealand’s favourite pottery, serves many functions, from appealing coffee-table book to collectors’ guide to a 50-year local history…
Tagged with: Issue 80, Paula Morris, Penguin, Summer 2007, Valerie Ringer Monk
Posted in Art, History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Art, History, Non-fiction, Review
Home and away. Paula Morris
I Am Always With You Philip Temple Random, $34.99, ISBN 1869417739 The Viewing Platform Ian Wedde Penguin, $29.95, ISBN 9780143020929 Local writers Stevan Eldred-Grigg (Kaput!) and Tina Shaw (The Black Madonna) have found imaginative inspiration in wartime Berlin, and now…
Tagged with: Ian Wedde, Issue 76, Paula Morris, Philip Temple, Random, Summer 2006
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Forging the real, Louise O’Brien
Hibiscus Coast Paula Morris Penguin, $28.00, ISBN 0143019767 The Fossil Pits Tim Corballis Victoria University Press, $29.95, ISBN 0864735081 With her debut novel, Queen of Beauty, Paula Morris won both the 2001 Adam Foundation Prize for Creative Writing and the…
Tagged with: Issue 72, Paula Morris, Penguin, Summer 2005, Tim Corballis, Victoria University Press
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Ambivalence and comedy, Paola Bilbrough
Queen of Beauty Paula Morris Penguin $27.95, ISBN 0864734425 The book of the film of the story of my life William Brandt Victoria University Press, $29.95, ISBN 0143018418 Queen of Beauty and The book of the film of the story…
Tagged with: Issue 58, Paola Bilbrough, Paula Morris, Penguin, Victoria University Press, William Brandt, Winter 2002
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
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Casual labour, Paula Morris
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