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Patchwork, Lisa Warrington
These Two Hands: A Memoir Renée Mākaro Press, $38.00, ISBN 9780994137845 These Two Hands is the memoir of a woman’s life which is simultaneously ordinary and extraordinary. Born in Napier in 1929, Renée has lived through tumultuous times, both in…
Tagged with: Issue 124, Lisa Warrington, Mākaro Press, Renée, Summer 2018
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Pity about the people
An excerpt from Too Many Cooks, a novel by Renée. Belle Vista was beautifully located on top of a hill looking out over Wellington Harbour. There were three pine trees artfully placed around the hill so the view wasn”t too…
Seamless, Renée
Stitch: Contemporary New Zealand Textile Artists Ann Packer Random House, $59.99, ISBN 1869417887 I know Ann Packer’s work from her articles in newspapers and magazines, and never go anywhere without her little gem, Crafty Girls’ Road Trip. So it was…
Tagged with: Ann Packer, Issue 79, Random House, Renée, Spring 2007
Posted in Art, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Art, Non-fiction, Review
Love and damage, Margie Thomson
A Short History of Paradise Norman Bilbrough Penguin, $28.00, ISBN 0143020358 Kissing Shadows Renée Huia, $34.99, ISBN 1869692039 How often can one say of local fiction, and mean it, that it’s an absolute delight to read? Known as a writer…
Tagged with: Huia, Issue 72, Margie Thomson, Norman Bilbrough, Penguin, Renée, Summer 2005
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Unpick this, Renée
Thrift to Fantasy: Home Textile Crafts of the 1930s-1950s Rosemary McLeod HarperCollins, $59.95, ISBN 1869505093 Rosemary McLeod is an intelligent, witty and acerbic columnist who does us the favour of saying the things we’d like to say out loud, if…
Tagged with: Autumn 2005, HarperCollins, Issue 69, Renée, Rosemary McLeod
Posted in Art, History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Art, History, Non-fiction, Review
Holding the baby, Paula Boock
The Skeleton Woman: A Romance Renée Huia Publishers, $29.95, ISBN 1877283169 In a review of this, Renée’s fifth novel, the New Zealand Listener used the gratuitous headline “The one about the lesbian and the baby”. Shame on them. What it…
Tagged with: Autumn 2002, Huia Publishers, Issue 57, Paula Boock, Renée
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Clayton’s books? Denis Welch
America on Five Bullets a Day Raybon Kan Hodder Moa Beckett, $29.95, ISBN 1 86958 656 5 Just Walking the Dogs Joe Bennett Hazard Press, $16.95, ISBN 1 877161 49 7 Yin and Tonic Renée Random House, $29.95, ISBN 1…
Tagged with: Denis Welch, Hazard Press, Hodder Moa Beckett, Issue 38, Joe Bennett, Random House, Rayon Kan, Renée
Posted in Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Review
The haunt of guilty memory, Kim Worthington
In Touch Janette Sinclair Secker and Warburg, $24.95, ISBN 790004011 Does This Make Sense to You? Renée Penguin, $24.95, ISBN 0 14024946X Rain Kirsty Gunn Faber and Faber, $22.95, ISBN 0 571173004 The Strange Letter Z Debra Daley Penguin, $24.95,…
Tagged with: Debra Daley, Faber and Faber, Hodder and Stoughton, Issue 20, Janette Sinclair, Kim Worthington, Kirsty Gunn, Lindsey Dawson, Penguin Books, Renée, Rosie Scott, Secker and Warburg, Summer 1995, Tandem
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Charting life and death, Rebecca Simpson
Daisy and Lily Renée, Penguin, $24.95 The blurb on the back of Renée’s new novel, Daisy and Lily, announces that ‘Renée has created a world which is part biography, part elegy, part robust stand-up comedy, all leavened with lively good…
Tagged with: Issue 10, Penguin, Rebecca Simpson, Renée, Spring 1993
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
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