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A child’s-eye view, Anna Mackenzie
The Mapmakers’ Race Eirlys Hunter Gecko Press, $25.00, ISBN 9781776572038 Time Twins Arne Norlin and Sally Astridge Submarine, $25.00, ISBN 9780473406325 Finding David Hill Puffin, $20.00, ISBN 9780143772392 The bonds of family and place, seen from an appropriately youthful viewpoint,…
Tagged with: Anna Mackenzie, Arne Norlin, David Hill, Eirlys Hunter, Gecko Press, Issue 124, Puffin, Sally Astridge, Submarine, Summer 2018
Posted in Children, Literature, Review
Posted in Children, Literature, Review
Back in the day, Chris Else
Tane’s War Brendaniel Weir Cloud Ink Press, $30.00, ISBN 9780473415648 Gone to Pegasus Tess Redgrave Submarine, $35.00, ISBN 9780473419196 Rotoroa Amy Head Victoria University Press, $30.00, ISBN 9781776561919 Over the last ten years or so, the number of established New…
Tagged with: Amy Head, Brendaniel Weir, Chris Else, Cloud Ink Press, Issue 124, Submarine, Summer 2018, Tess Redgrave, Victoria University Press
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Peacetime at last, Helen Watson White
Astride a Fierce Wind Huberta Hellendoorn Submarine, $38.00, ISBN 9780473395216 Writing in retirement in the small Dunedin apartment she shares with her husband Bart, Huberta Hellendoorn characteristically uses a domestic metaphor to describe her ever-changing experience: The revolving dryer reminds…
Tagged with: Autumn 2018, Helen Watson White, Huberta Hellendoorn, Issue 121, Submarine
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Brave writing, Charlotte Simmonds
The Walking Stick Tree Trish Harris Escalator Press, $35.00, ISBN 9780994118646 A Small Blue Thing Julie Hanify Submarine, $35.00, ISBN 9780994123770 The Case of the Missing Body Jenny Powell Otago University Press, $30.00, ISBN 9781877578311 What Does the Sea Sound…
Tagged with: Charlotte Simmonds, Escalator Press, Evie Mahoney, Issue 119, Jenny Powell, Julie Hanify, Mary Egan Publishing, Otago University Press, Spring 2017, Submarine, Trish Harris
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Writing about writing, Anne Else
Talk of Treasure Jane Carswell Submarine, $35.00, ISBN 9780994137913 How do you depict the process of writing? Very few of the many films about writers try to show their protagonist actually doing it. Doctor Zhivago demonstrates why: Omar Sharif sits…
Tagged with: Anne Else, Autumn 2017, Issue 117, Jane Carswell, Submarine
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review