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Here be gods, monsters and mortals, David Eggleton

Posted on August 26, 2019 by NZ Books

Pūrākau: Māori Myths Retold By Māori Writers Witi Ihimaera and Whiti Hereaka (eds) Penguin Random House, $38.00, ISBN 9780143772965 In Pūrākau: Māori Myths Retold By Māori Writers, the retelling of mythic stories is a communal activity, with one storyteller picking…

Tagged with: David Eggleton, Issue 127, Penguin Random House, Spring 2019, Whiti Hereaka, Witi Ihimaera
Posted in Literature, Māori, Review

Teenage territories, Barbara Else

Posted on March 17, 2019 by NZ Books

Make a Hard Fist Tina Shaw One Tree House, $20.00, ISBN 9780473421878 Ocean’s Kiss Lani Wendt Young One Tree House, $29.00, ISBN 9780995106741 Legacy Whiti Hereaka Huia, $25.00, ISBN 9781775503347 To state the obvious, one problem with writing young adult…

Tagged with: Autumn 2019, Barbara Else, Huia, Issue 125, Lani Wendt Young, One Tree House, Tina Shaw, Whiti Hereaka
Posted in Literature, Review, Young adults

Tourism and real life, Abby Loader and Abby Simpson

Posted on March 13, 2016 by NZ Books

Bugs Whiti Hereaka Huia, $25.00, ISBN 9781775501336 Bugs, by Whiti Hereaka, is an honest narrative that confronts the reader with the everyday life of Bugs, “as in bunny”. Sixteen-year-old Bugs is struggling to hold onto childhood pal Jez, as he…

Tagged with: Abby Loader, Abby Simpson, Autumn 2016, Huia, Issue 113, Whiti Hereaka
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, YA Reviewers, Young adults

Sex-free romance and YA cred, Paula Morris

Posted on December 5, 2014 by NZ Books

Bugs Whiti Hereaka Huia, $25.00, ISBN 9781775501336 When We Wake Karen Healey Allen & Unwin, $22.00, ISBN 9781742378084 Awakening Natalie King Penguin, $20.00, ISBN 9780143570790 Bugs, the eponymous protagonist of Whiti Hereaka’s first YA novel, is unimpressed with much of…

Tagged with: Allen & Unwin, Huia, Issue 108, Karen Healey, Natalie King, Paula Morris, Penguin, Summer 2014, Whiti Hereaka
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults

Invasion of the strange, Joan Rosier-Jones

Posted on December 1, 2010 by NZ Books

Villa Pacifica Kapka Kassabova Penguin Books, $39.00, ISBN 9780143205029 All That We Remember Zoë Adams HarperCollins, $29.99, ISBN 9781869508821 The Graphologist’s Apprentice Whiti Hereaka Huia, $35.00, ISBN 97811869694227 Many years ago television director Peter Sharpe asked for…

Tagged with: HarperCollins, Huia, Issue 92, Joan Rosier-Jones, Kapka Kassabova, Penguin Books, Summer 2010, Whiti Hereaka, Zoë Adams
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review