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Myself alone, Louise O’Brien
Landscape with Solitary Figure Shonagh Koea Vintage, $30.00, ISBN 9781775535881 Shonagh Koea’s novel Landscape with Solitary Figure is concerned with themes of domestic trauma, emotional unhappiness, withdrawal and solitude, written with a careful attention to detail which mires the reader…
Tagged with: Autumn 2015, Issue 109, Louise O’Brien, Shonagh Koea, Vintage
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Self-portrait with wooden spoon, Lois Daish
The Kindness of Strangers: Kitchen Memoirs Shonagh Koea (illustrations by Peter Wells) Vintage, $34.99, ISBN 9781869419189 It wasn’t in her own mother’s kitchen that the young Shonagh found out food could make her happy. Things at home were a bit…
Tagged with: Autumn 2008, Issue 81, Lois Daish, Peter Wells, Shonagh Koea, Vintage
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
The emptiness within, Heather Murray
The Lonely Margins of the Sea Shonagh Koea Vintage, $29.95, ISBN 1 86941 348 2 On the lonely margins of society, Shonagh Koea’s women conduct their lives. It is a rich territory evidently, for after five novels and two volumes…
Myths of reason and culture, Heather Murray
The Heart’s Wild Surf Stephanie Johnson Vintage/Random House, $24.95, ISBN 1 86941 278 8 A Fancy Man Sue McCauley Vintage/Random House, $24.95, ISBN 1 86941 283 4 The Wedding at Bueno-Vista Shonagh Koea Vintage/Random House, $24.95, ISBN 1 86941 282…
Tagged with: Autumn 1996, Heather Murray, Issue 25, Shonagh Koea, Stephanie Johnson, Sue McCauley, Vintage/Random House
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Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Varying power and art, Kim Worthington
Between Friends Linda Burgess University of Otago Press, $24.95 Cowrie Cathie Dunsford Tandem Press, $19.95 In Translation Annamarie Jagose Victoria University Press $24.95 Sing to Me, Dreamer Shonagh Koea Random House, $24.95 Having recently returned to New Zealand after several…
Tagged with: Annamarie Jagose, Cathie Dunsford, Issue 16, Kim Worthington, Linda Burgess, Random House, Shonagh Koea, Summer 1994, Tandem Press, University of Otago Press, Victoria University Press
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Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Inner worlds, outer worlds, Jane Parkin
Seeing Red Marilyn Duckworth, Vintage, $19.95 Fifteen Rubies by Candlelight Shonagh Koea, Vintage, $19.95 Reading Shonagh Koea’s stories in Fifteen Rubies by Candlelight is like sampling a box of good, rich chocolates. Read (or eat) too many at once and…
Tagged with: Issue 10, Jane Parkin, Marilyn Duckworth, Shonagh Koea, Spring 1993, Vintage
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Minnie Mouse plays Anna Karenina, Iain Sharp
Staying Home and Being Rotten Shonagh Koea, Vintage, $19.95 Unlawful Entry Marilyn Duckworth, Vintage, $19.95 It’s always presumptuous to thrust two authors under a single umbrella. At least in the present instance one can point, by way of excuse, to…
Tagged with: Iain Sharp, Issue 7, Marilyn Duckworth, Shonagh Koea, Summer 1992, Vintage
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
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