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“The frequent flyer friar” John McCrystal
Nailing Down The Saint Craig Cliff Penguin Random House, $38.00, ISBN 9780143773740 Those familiar with Craig Cliff’s work will know that he is fond of a kooky premise – a starting-off point that allows him to tread the blurred line…
Tagged with: Craig Cliff, Issue 128, John McCrystal, Penguin Random House, Summer 2019
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Here be gods, monsters and mortals, David Eggleton
Pūrākau: Māori Myths Retold By Māori Writers Witi Ihimaera and Whiti Hereaka (eds) Penguin Random House, $38.00, ISBN 9780143772965 In Pūrākau: Māori Myths Retold By Māori Writers, the retelling of mythic stories is a communal activity, with one storyteller picking…
Tagged with: David Eggleton, Issue 127, Penguin Random House, Spring 2019, Whiti Hereaka, Witi Ihimaera
Posted in Literature, Māori, Review
Posted in Literature, Māori, Review
On not relying on truthiness, Brian Easton
A Conversation With My Country Alan Duff Penguin Random House, $39.00, ISBN 9780143773269 In 1990, a comet brightened the New Zealand literary scene and society with the publication of Alan Duff’s Once Were Warriors, for it involved both an extraordinary…
Tagged with: Alan Duff, Brian Easton, Issue 127, Penguin Random House, Spring 2019
Posted in Māori, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in Māori, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
And on the strangest sea, Paul Moon
New Zealand and the Sea: Historical Perspectives Frances Steel (ed) Bridget Williams Books, $60.00, ISBN 9780947518707 Ocean: Tales of Voyaging and Encounter that Defined New Zealand Sarah Ell Penguin Random House, $70.00, ISBN 9780143772675 Most histories of nations tend to…
Tagged with: Frances Steel, Issue 126, Paul Moon, Penguin Random House, Sarah Ell, Winter 2019
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Why Y? David Hill
Ursa Tina Shaw Walker Books, $23.00, ISBN 9781760651244 Invisibly Breathing Eileen Merriman Penguin Random House, $20.00, ISBN 9780143772859 Flight of the Fantail Steph Matuku Huia, $30.00, ISBN 9781775503521 An unspecified number of years back at a Going West Festival, I…
Tagged with: Eileen Merriman, Huia, Issue 126, Penguin Random House, Steph Matuku, Tina Shaw, Walker Books, Winter 2019
Posted in Literature, Review, Young adults
Posted in Literature, Review, Young adults
Modern love, Hannah Marshall
Invisibly Breathing Eileen Merriman Penguin Random House, $20.00, ISBN 9780143772859 Invisibly Breathing is Eileen Merriman’s third novel, and it offers more than your typical romance. Bullying, homophobia and being an outsider – Merriman tackles plenty of tough topics in this…
Tagged with: Eileen Merriman, Hannah Marshall, Issue 126, Penguin Random House, Winter 2019
Posted in Literature, Review, YA Reviewers, Young adults
Posted in Literature, Review, YA Reviewers, Young adults
Looking forward, Tim Hazledine
The Big Questions: What is New Zealand’s Future? Various authors Penguin Random House, $38.00 ISBN 9780143772378 I’ve been worrying about Trump. Not the man – a lost cause, that – but the movement: Trumpism – the apparently bigoted, intolerant, resentful…
Tagged with: Issue 124, Penguin Random House, Summer 2018, Tim Hazledine
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Balancing pathos, Janet Wilson
This Mortal Boy: A Novel Fiona Kidman Penguin Random House, $38.00, ISBN 9780143771807 In This Mortal Boy (with its subtle, sad echo of Brendan Behan’s novel, Borstal Boy), Fiona Kidman gives a semi-fictional reconstruction of the highly publicised case of…
Tagged with: Fiona Kidman, Issue 123, Janet Wilson, Penguin Random House, Spring 2018
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Beyond the pale, Kathryn Walls
Heloise Mandy Hager Penguin Random House, $38.00, ISBN 9780143770992 Heloise is Mandy Hager’s reconstruction in novelistic terms of the lives of the 12th-century lovers Heloise and Abelard, told from Heloise’s point of view. While both Abelard and Heloise read a…
Tagged with: Issue 120, Kathryn Walls, Mandy Hager, Penguin Random House, Summer 2017
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
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