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Keeping it in the family, Tina Shaw
Necessary Secrets Greg McGee Upstart Press, $38.00, ISBN 9781988516639 Loving Sylvie Elizabeth Smither Allen and Unwin, $37.00, ISBN 9781988547114 Two recently-published novels explore inter-generational stories, yet there couldn’t be two more different treatments. (more…)…
Tagged with: Allen and Unwin, Elizabeth Smither, Greg McGee, Issue 127, Spring 2019, Tina Shaw, Upstart Press
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
The good, the bad and the ugly, John O’Leary
Scoundrels and Eccentrics of the Pacific John Dunmore Upstart Press, $40.00, ISBN 9781988516219 William Deans: The Passionate Pioneer Louise Deans Wily Publications, $35.00, ISBN: 9781927167342 Just as Australia’s Outback has its “characters” (according to popular legend, at least), so that…
Tagged with: Autumn 2019, Issue 125, John Dunmore, John O’Leary, Upstart Press, Wily Publications
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Secrets of the All Blacks not all that secret, Spiro Zavos
The Jersey: The Secrets Behind the World’s Most Successful Team Peter Bills Pan Macmillan, $38.00, ISBN 9781509856688 Murdoch: The All Black Who Never Returned Ron Palenski Upstart Press, $40.00, ISBN 9781988516127 The cultural historian E H McCormick once noted that…
Tagged with: Issue 124, Pan Macmillan, Peter Bills, Ron Palenski, Spiro Zavos, Summer 2018, Upstart Press
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sport
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sport
Darkening and deepening, Catherine Robertson
Through the Lonesome Dark Paddy Richardson Upstart Press, $35.00, ISBN 9781927262986 Paddy Richardson takes a risk with her latest novel. By setting it in Blackball, a mining town on the West Coast in the early 1900s, she raises expectations of…
Tagged with: Autumn 2018, Catherine Robertson, Issue 121, Paddy Richardson, Upstart Press
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Fascinating threesome, Rosemary Wildblood
Obsession Elspeth Sandys Upstart Press, $35.00, ISBN 9781927262900 Set mostly in the 1980s, Elspeth Sandys’s Obsession explores the dynamics of a relationship fuelled by desire and driven by a symbiotic need for intimacy. The narrative is purportedly written by a…
Tagged with: Elspeth Sandys, Issue 120, Rosemary Wildblood, Summer 2017, Upstart Press
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Love and war, Murray Bramwell
Love as a Stranger Owen Marshall Vintage, $38.00, ISBN 9781775538578 The Antipodeans Greg McGee Upstart Press, $38.00, ISBN 9781927262030 In his captivating new novel, Love as a Stranger, Owen Marshall immediately greets the reader with portents. The epigraph quotes the…
Tagged with: Greg McGee, Issue 114, Murray Bramwell, Owen Marshall, Upstart Press, Vintage, Winter 2016
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Tipping points, Sylvan Thomson
First Lady – From Boyhood to Womanhood: The Incredible Story of New Zealand’s Sex-change Pioneer Liz Roberts with Alison Mau Upstart Press, $40.00, ISBN 9781927262375 Sexual Cultures in Aotearoa New Zealand Education Alexandra C Gunn and Lee A Smith (eds)…
Tagged with: Alexandra C Gunn, Alison Mau, Issue 114, Lee A Smith, Liz Roberts, Otago University Press, Sylvan Thomson, Upstart Press, Winter 2016
Posted in Gender, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in Gender, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
From the sidelines, Michele A’Court
Dan Carter: My Story Dan Carter with Duncan Greive Upstart Press, $50.00 ISBN 9781927262382 Here’s a crazy idea – get someone who doesn’t give a toss about rugby to review the autobiography of the world’s greatest rugby union fly-half. Madness.…
Tagged with: Dan Carter, Duncan Greive, Issue 114, Michele A’Court, Upstart Press, Winter 2016
Posted in Autobiography, Non-fiction, Review, Sport
Posted in Autobiography, Non-fiction, Review, Sport
Acts political, Vanda Symon
Fallout Paul Thomas Upstart Press, $35.00, ISBN 9781927262016 Where the Dead Men Go Liam McIlvanney Faber & Faber, $25.00, ISBN 9780571239863 New Zealand crime fiction is going from strength to strength, with great work being published by old favourites as…
Tagged with: Autumn 2015, Faber & Faber, Issue 109, Liam McIlvanney, Paul Thomas, Upstart Press, Vanda Symon
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
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