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Making friends with Mansfield, Ashlee Nelson
Mansfield and Me: A Graphic Memoir Sarah Laing Victoria University Press, $35.00, ISBN 9781776560691 The graphic form is in some ways a more complex undertaking than straightforward prose, for a graphic text must concern itself not only with the words…
Tagged with: Ashlee Nelson, Issue 118, Katherine Mansfield, Sarah Laing, Victoria University Press, Winter 2017
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Tea and comfort, Sarah Laing
The Hiding Places Catherine Robertson Black Swan, $37.00, ISBN 9781775536420 Where is the line between popular and literary fiction? If the latter is rich with poetic language and literary references, then Catherine Robertson has crossed it. But if popular fiction…
Tagged with: Black Swan, Catherine Robertson, Issue 111, Sarah Laing, Spring 2015
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Changes of heart and mind, John McCrystal
Pentimento Rosemary Wildblood Wily Publications, $30.00, ISBN 9781927167090 The Fall of Light Sarah Laing Vintage, $38.00, ISBN 9781775533030 Settling into a novel can be a lot like going away on holiday with people you don’t know, or settling into a…
Tagged with: Issue 104, John McCrystal, Rosemary Wildblood, Sarah Laing, Summer 2013, Vintage, Wily Publications
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Home and away, Nicholas Reid
Dead People’s Music Sarah Laing Vintage, $29.99, ISBN 9781869791087 Footnotes to Sex Mia Farlane Viking, $37.00, ISBN 9780670917938 Mother’s Day Laurence Fearnley Penguin, $28.00, ISBN 9780143011255 I am male, middle-aged, heterosexual and monogamous. The first two terms make me different…
Tagged with: Issue 87, Laurence Fearnley, Mia Farlane, Nicholas Reid, Penguin, Sarah Laing, Spring 2009, Viking, Vintage
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review