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The Landfall Tauraka Review: Aotearoa New Zealand books in review

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

Beautiful, Partial Songs

2 June 2026 1 Comment

Emma Gattey reviews Ruth Dallas: A writer’s life by Diana Morrow and This Moment, Every Moment: Ruth Dallas collected poems edited by Nicola Cummins

Filed Under: biography, poetry, Uncategorized

Would Mr Olds Please Report on Hands and Knees

8 May 2026 2 Comments

Philip Temple reviews Minding His Own Poetry Composing Business: A biography of Peter Olds by Roger Hickin

Filed Under: biography

The Active Verb of Emily Cumming Harris

1 December 2025 Leave a Comment

Mary Macpherson reviews Groundwork by Michele Leggott and Catherine Field-Dodgson

Filed Under: art and photography, biography

Nature Was My Friend

1 December 2025 Leave a Comment

Andrew Paul Wood reviews My Own Sort of Heaven: A life of Rosalie Gascoigne by Nicola Francis

Filed Under: art and photography, biography

A Phantom Jigsaw

1 June 2025 Leave a Comment

Pat White on Lily, Oh Lily: Searching for a Nazi ghost by Jeffrey Paparoa Holman

Filed Under: biography, history, memoir, travelogue

Different Versions of Tony

1 June 2025 Leave a Comment

David Eggleton on Tony Fomison: Life of the artist by Mark Forman

Filed Under: art and photography, biography

The Crucibles of Military Medicine

1 March 2025 Leave a Comment

Eric Trump on Frontline Surgeon: New Zealand medical pioneer Douglas Jolly by Mark Derby

Filed Under: biography

Your Position Is Not Mine

1 September 2024 Leave a Comment

Ian Wedde on Dear Colin, Dear Ron: The selected letters of Colin McCahon and Ron O’Reilly by Peter Simpson

Filed Under: art and photography, arts and culture, biography, history, letters

You Saw Nothing

1 July 2024 Leave a Comment

Max Oettli on Ans Westra: A life in photography by Paul Moon

Filed Under: art and photography, biography, history

The Woman Historian Who Challenged the Orthodoxy

3 April 2024 Leave a Comment

Sarah Christie on ‘A Bloody Difficult Subject’: Ruth Ross, Te Tiriti o Waitangi and the making of history by Bain Attwood

Filed Under: biography, history

Loud with Locusts and Bronzed with Sun

1 March 2024 1 Comment

David Eggleton on Don Binney: Flight path by Greg O’Brien

Filed Under: art and photography, biography

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