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Confessions of an historical romance virgin, Beryl Fletcher

Posted on September 1, 2007 by NZ Books
The Paua Tower Coral Atkinson Black Swan, $27.99, ISBN 1869417623 The Sawdust Makers Jackie Fraser Hazard Press, $34.99, ISBN 187739307X Kitty  Deborah Challinor HarperCollins, $34.99 ISBN 1869506014 First, a confession: I’m an historical romance virgin. This is either a good…
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Bring on the gothic, Jane Stafford

Posted on September 1, 2007 by NZ Books
Fire  Deborah Challinor Harper Collins, $39.99, ISBN 9781869506001 Wild Latitudes Barbara Else Vintage, $27.99, ISBN 9781869418670 A Secret Mind  Kaye Kelly Black Swan, $27.99, ISBN 978869417819 Sylvia lay awake listening to the mournful cry of a morepork. Another noise, a…
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Our dark secrets, Tim Corballis and Ingrid Horrocks

Posted on September 1, 2007 by NZ Books
Gothic NZ: The Darker Side of Kiwi Culture Misha Kavka, Jennifer Lawn, Mary Paul (eds) Otago University Press, $39.95, ISBN 1877372234 Strange goings-on in small towns. You know all about it – it’s the New Zealand gothic. It’s a familiar…
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The impudent what-if, Geoff Cush

Posted on September 1, 2007 by NZ Books
New Zealand as it Might Have Been Stephen Levine (ed) Victoria University Press, $35.00, ISBN 0864735456 “Counterfactual” is the term preferred by the 15 writers here, who are mostly historians or political scientists, and mostly based at Victoria University of…
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Beware of low-flying poetry, David Larsen

Posted on September 1, 2007 by NZ Books
David Larsen reviews this year’s Auckland Writers Festival from a safe distance. I thought we were going to need a doctor. An elderly woman two rows in front of me was clasping her chest, twisting awkwardly in her seat. She…
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Poem – Jan FitzGerald

Posted on September 1, 2007 by NZ Books
Nest   Consider  this pouch of air,  thatch of cloud, tightly woven against a sky loosely strung. This swirl of wind  is threaded to miracles.   In this scoop of heaven,  time coddles echoes, joggle of eggs, shuffle of fledglings, in…
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Stamping one’s mark, Edmund Bohan

Posted on September 1, 2007 by NZ Books
The Governors: New Zealand’s Governors and Governors-General Gavin McLean Otago University Press, $59.95, ISBN 1877372250 Amassing Treasures for All Times: Sir George Grey, Colonial Bookman and Collector Donald Jackson Kerr Otago University Press, $59.95, ISBN 1877372218 Gavin McLean’s book is,…
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Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review

Red pen pedants, Anna Rogers

Posted on September 1, 2007 by NZ Books
Book editor Anna Rogers on why even the best authors need saving from themselves.  For most people, a menu is a list of food choices. For an editor, a menu is a test: can the restaurateurs (not the restauranteurs) spell…
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Surviving immigration, Coral Atkinson

Posted on September 1, 2007 by NZ Books
The Smell of an Oily Rag Cherry Simmonds Random House, $27.99, ISBN 1869418492 Purple Heart Ta’afuli Andrew Fiu Random House, $27.99, ISBN 1869418042 A New Zealand joke, current in the 1970s, entailed asking how one knew when a 747 carrying…
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Posted in Autobiography, Non-fiction, Review

Same notes, different tunes, Jenny DeBell

Posted on September 1, 2007 by NZ Books
The Six Pack: Winning Writing from New Zealand Book Month 2006  John Campbell (introduction) New Zealand Book Month with Whitireia Publishing, $6.00, ISBN 1877192279 The Best New Zealand Fiction 3 Fiona Kidman (ed) Vintage, $34.99, ISBN 1869417976 Sunday 22: The…
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