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The Landfall Tauraka Review: Aotearoa New Zealand books in review

Even Their Ears Could Talk

20 August 2026 Leave a Comment

Tony Beyer reviews The Interview Rose by Elizabeth Smither, New Days for Old: Prose poems by James Brown and The Gum Trees of Kerikeri by Lynn Jenner

Filed Under: poetry

Awkward Places

18 August 2026 Leave a Comment

Thomas McLean reviews The Art of Colonisation: Images of Europe’s encounters with New Zealand by Paul Moon

Filed Under: art and photography, history

Big Freaky Plans

13 August 2026 Leave a Comment

Airini Beautrais reviews Age of Orpah by Carin Smeaton and Leather and Chains: My 1986 diary by Kate Camp

Filed Under: autobiography, memoir, poetry

She Died Five Different Ways

11 August 2026 Leave a Comment

Gail Pittaway reviews Hoods Landing by Laura Vincent

Filed Under: fiction, novel

A Man Laid Out Against the Concrete

6 August 2026 Leave a Comment

Paddy Richardson reviews Lucky Thing by Tom Baragwanath

Filed Under: crime fiction

Greedy For Life

31 July 2026 Leave a Comment

Michael O’Leary reviews Venus Has No Arms, God Has No Clothes: Born to be an artist by Jenny Hunt

Filed Under: autobiography, memoir

Pain’s Part of It

30 July 2026 Leave a Comment

Thom Conroy reviews Party Boy by Breton Dukes

Filed Under: fiction, novel

My Body is a Haunted Hotel

17 July 2026 Leave a Comment

Dani Yourukova reviews Hungus by Amber Esau; My Body is a Horror Film by Ray Shipley; Giving Birth to My Father by Tusiata Avia

Filed Under: poetry

Journey On the Dark Sand

14 July 2026 Leave a Comment

Lynn Jenner reviews Peace & Quiet by Dinah Hawken, Beyond the Border and Other Poems by Owen Marshall and Making Mixtapes with Seichan by Annabel Wilson

Filed Under: poetry

Marching to Barracks

10 July 2026 Leave a Comment

Hazel Petrie reviews Garrison World: Redcoat soldiers in New Zealand and across the British Empire by Charlotte Macdonald

Filed Under: history

The Voices, the Voices, the Noises, the Noises

7 July 2026 Leave a Comment

David Herkt reviews Chris Knox: Not given lightly by Craig Robertson

Filed Under: biography, music

Confrontainment Television

19 June 2026 Leave a Comment

Jennifer Lawn reviews Hooked Up by Fiona Sussman

Filed Under: crime fiction, fiction

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