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The Landfall Tauraka Review: Aotearoa New Zealand books in review

A Riotous Profusion

1 February 2024 Leave a Comment

Sally Blundell on Jenny McLeod: A life in music by Norman Meehan

Filed Under: arts and culture, biography

Wherever I Am I’m in the Wrong Place

1 December 2023 Leave a Comment

Murray Edmond on Robert Lord Diaries edited by Chris Brickell, Vanessa Manhire and Nonnita Rees

Filed Under: biography, diaries

Someone to Love, Somewhere to Live, Somewhere to Work, Something to Hope For

1 December 2023 Leave a Comment

Helen Watson White on We Need to Talk About Norman: New Zealand’s lost leader by Denis Welch

Filed Under: biography, politics

The Great Pākehā Land Grab

3 October 2023 Leave a Comment

David Eggleton on A Roderick Finlayson Reader edited by Roger Hickin; Roderick Finlayson: A Man from Another World by Roger Hickin

Filed Under: biography, literature, memoir

The Trembling Beauty of Life

1 September 2023 Leave a Comment

David Eggleton on Katherine Mansfield’s Europe: Station to Station by Redmer Yska

Filed Under: biography

Chasing Ghosts

1 September 2023 Leave a Comment

David Herkt on Downfall: The destruction of Charles Mackay by Paul Diamond

Filed Under: biography

Challenging Racism, Imperialism, Exploitation

1 April 2023 Leave a Comment

Philip Temple on Comrade: Bill Andersen: A communist, working-class life by Cybèle Locke

Filed Under: biography, history, politics

Beyond Biography

1 December 2022 Leave a Comment

Sarah Christie on Thief, Convict, Pirate, Wife: The many histories of Charlotte Badger by Jennifer Ashton

Filed Under: biography, history

Stone House & Straw Houses  

1 September 2022 Leave a Comment

Max Oettli on Ravenscar House: A Biography by Sally Blundell (Canterbury University Press, 2022) and Road People of Aotearoa: House truck journeys 1978–1984 by Paul Gilbert (Rim Books, 2021)

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

A Rich, Layered Sense of Context

1 September 2022 Leave a Comment

Helen Watson White on Helen Kelly: Her life by Rebecca Macfie (Awa Press, 2021)

Filed Under: biography

Telling His Story

1 June 2022 Leave a Comment

Alan Roddick on James Courage Diaries edited by Chris Brickell

Filed Under: biography, diaries, letters

What a Human Muddle

1 June 2022 Leave a Comment

Stephen Stratford on Life as a Novel: A biography of Maurice Shadbolt, Volume 2 1973–2004 by Philip Temple

Filed Under: biography, literature

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