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Never trust the narrator, Nicholas Reid
Playing Waterloo Peter Hawes Vintage New Zealand $24.95 ISBN 1 86941 323 7 The Whistler Stephanie Johnson Vintage New Zealand $29.95 ISBN 1 86941 346 6 What a beguiling thing alternative history is. In my teenage and post-teenage years, I…
Tagged with: Issue 35, Nicholas Reid, Peter Hawes, Stephanie Johnson, Vintage New Zealand
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Re-charting our child myth, Heather Murray
Boy Overboard by Peter Wells Vintage New Zealand, $24.95, ISBN 1 86941 319 9 Boy Overboard is a great novel. It is a work which will resonate for many a year, and become as important a marker of growing up…
Tagged with: Autumn 1997, Heather Murray, Issue 29, Peter Wells, Vintage New Zealand
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Women among the puritans, Heather Murray
A Barbarous Tongue Marilyn Duckworth Vintage New Zealand (first pub Hutchinson & Co, 1963), $24.95 Fooling Marilyn Duckworth Hazard Press, $9.95 Marilyn Duckworth stands alone in New Zealand fiction, occupying a lofty and lonely spot few others have had the…
Tagged with: Hazard Press, Heather Murray, Issue 16, Marilyn Duckworth, Summer 1994, Vintage New Zealand
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Two sisters and a witch, Rebekah Palmer
The Word Burners Beryl Fletcher, Daphne Brasell Associates, Wellington, 1991, $19.95 Finding Out Elspeth Sandys, Vintage New Zealand, Auckland, 1991, $24.95 The night-witch is invoked early in The Word Burners. The main character, Julia, tells her children of a lonely…
Tagged with: Autumn 1992, Beryl Fletcher, Daphne Brasell Associates Press, Elspeth Sandys, Issue 4, Rebekah Palmer, Vintage New Zealand
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