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Issue 78 | Winter 2007
Volume 17 | Number 2 | Issue 78 | Winter 2007 Letters Guy Somerset: Lydia Monin, From the Writer’s Notebook: Around New Zealand with 80 Authors John Campbell: Harry Ricketts, How to Catch a Cricket Match Deborah Montgomerie: David…
Another country, Catharina van Bohemen
Alice and Luigi Graeme Lay David Ling, $29.99, ISBN 1877378070 In Touch with Grace Jenny Pattrick Black Swan, $27.99, ISBN 1869417674 As we grow older, we look over our shoulders. We want to see where we came from, whether our…
Tagged with: Black Swan, Catharina van Bohemen, David Ling Publishing, Graeme Lay, Issue 78, Jenny Pattrick, Winter 2007
Posted in Fiction, Literature
Posted in Fiction, Literature
Sounding real Tina Shaw
The Fountain of Tears Stephanie de Montalk Victoria University Press, $29.95, ISBN 0864735316 Ocean Roads James George Huia, $34.99, ISBN 1869692373 At the Heart of Hiruharama Isabel Waiti-Mulholland Huia, $34.95, ISBN 1869692381 Following on from the biography of her cousin,…
Tagged with: Huia, Isabel Waiti-Mulholland, Issue 78, James George, Stephanie de Montalk, Tina Shaw, Victoria University Press, Winter 2007
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Braided narratives, Stephen Harris
Different Kinds of Pleasure Elizabeth Smither Penguin, $28.00, ISBN 014302065X My Name Was Judas C K Stead Harvill Secker, $28.00, ISBN 9781846550126 Elizabeth Smither is adept at sounding the depths of the seemingly incidental moment or quotidian encounter. Laura Bening,…
Tagged with: C K Stead, Elizabeth Smither, Harvill Secker, Issue 78, Penguin, Stephen Harris, Winter 2007
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Poem – Maggie Rainey-Smith
Menopause (Inspired by an essay by Ursula K Le Guin, “The Space Crone”, 1976). Ursula urges me to become a Crone to not bemoan my declining hormones to wear grey hair catch a space ship somewhere out there so I…
Boyznbooks, Rose Lovell-Smith
And Did Those Feet Ted Dawe Longacre Press, $18.99, ISBN 9781877361494 Single Fin Aaron Topp Random House, $18.99, ISBN 1869417844 Castaway: The Diary of Samuel Abraham Clark, Disappointment Island, 1907 Bill O’Brien Scholastic, $16.99, ISBN 1869437500 Boyznbikes Vince Ford Scholastic,…
Tagged with: Aaron Topp, Bill O’Brien, Issue 78, Longacre Press, Random House, Rose Lovell-Smith, Scholastic, Ted Dawe, Vince Ford, Winter 2007
Posted in Children, Fiction, Literature, Young adults
Posted in Children, Fiction, Literature, Young adults
The hum of their parts, Anna Jackson
Paperchase G Brassi Scholastic, $17.00, ISBN 1869437098 Thieves Ella West Longacre Press, $18.99, ISBN 1877361488 Genesis Bernard Beckett Longacre Press, $18.99, ISBN 9781877361524 These three novels are all presented as thrillers. It is interesting to see thrillers being written especially…
Tagged with: Anna Jackson, Bernard Beckett, Ella West, G Brassi, Issue 78, Longacre Press, Scholastic, Winter 2007
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
Beautiful and organic, Christine Johnston
Dunedin writer Christine Johnston rediscovers the still-growing pleasures of Tom’s Midnight Garden. I would have borrowed a copy of Tom’s Midnight Garden from Dunedin Children’s Library, which in those days was located in two of the terraced houses in Stuart…
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The big player, George Griffiths
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