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Playing at home, John McCrystal
Pearly Gates: A Novel Owen Marshall Vintage, $38.00, ISBN 9780143773153 “Pride goeth before a fall”, so the proverb runs, “and an haughty spirit before destruction”. The prideful one in Owen Marshall’s latest novel is Pat Gates, universally known as “Pearly”.…
Tagged with: Issue 126, John McCrystal, Owen Marshall, Vintage, Winter 2019
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Where perspectives collide, John McCrystal
The Imaginary Lives of James Pōneke Tina Makereti Vintage, $38.00, ISBN 9780143771562 You don’t have to be a good old-fashioned structuralist to look into the patterns of history and see the tectonic grind of ideas reflected in the rippling of…
Tagged with: Issue 124, John McCrystal, Summer 2018, Tina Makereti, Vintage
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Thoughts well-wrought, Damian Love
View from the South Owen Marshall (Grahame Sydney photographer) Vintage, $40.00, ISBN 9780143771845 It often seems to be the case that novelists, when they turn to verse, move with a more relaxed gait, a less self-conscious regard, than those whose…
Tagged with: Damian Love, Grahame Sydney, Issue 123, Owen Marshall, Spring 2018, Vintage
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Courting controversy, Emma Martin
Fiction The Suicide Club Sarah Quigley Vintage, $38.00, ISBN 9780143771012 Midway through Sarah Quigley’s The Suicide Club, Lace, one of its three troubled young protagonists, recalls a story told to her by her father, a celebrated film-maker who, along with…
Tagged with: Emma Martin, Issue 119, Sarah Quigley, Spring 2017, Vintage
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Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
People and places, Louise O’Brien
A Surfeit of Sunsets Dulcie Castree Mākaro Press, $35.00, ISBN 9780994123787 The Earth Cries Out Bonnie Etherington Vintage, $38.00, ISBN 9780143770657 In the late Dulcie Castree’s novel, Shirley abandons her sophisticated life in Wellington in favour of the small seaside…
Tagged with: Bonnie Etherington, Dulcie Castree, Issue 119, Louise O’Brien, Mākaro Press, Spring 2017, Vintage
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“The push and pull of parenting”, Catriona Ferguson
Billy Bird Emma Neale Vintage, $38.00, ISBN 9780143770053 Emma Neale’s sixth novel, Billy Bird, probes the life of a troubled family – Liam, Iris and eight-year-old Billy. They are all reeling from a series of tragedies that have befallen their…
Tagged with: Autumn 2017, Catriona Ferguson, Emma Neale, Issue 117, Vintage
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Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Sweet recklessness, Kiran Dass
The Salted Air Thom Conroy Vintage, $38.00, ISBN 9781775538820 “We strut about imagining heroism and lucky saves, but we’ve got it all wrong. Catastrophe arrives when the air is warm and people are everywhere … .” So observes the keenly…
Tagged with: Issue 115, Kiran Dass, Spring 2016, Thom Conroy, Vintage
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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
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Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Echoes of the real, Sarah Ross
Starlight Peninsula Charlotte Grimshaw Vintage, $38.00, ISBN 9781775538226 “A collar in the studio!” enthuses John Campbell to his co-host, as he takes over his new afternoon slot on National Radio: I have to share this with the listeners, because…
Tagged with: Autumn 2016, Charlotte Grimshaw, Issue 113, Sarah Ross, Vintage
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Haunted by the 1970s, Tina Shaw
The Predictions Bianca Zander Blackfriars, $30.00, ISBN 9780349134369 The Party Line Sue Orr Vintage, $38.00, ISBN 9781775537557 These two novels consider two very different communities back in the 1970s and 80s. Much of it will be familiar territory. They…
Tagged with: Autumn 2016, Bianca Zander, Blackfriars, Issue 113, Sue Orr, Tina Shaw, Vintage
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