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The Landfall Tauraka Review

The Landfall Tauraka Review: Aotearoa New Zealand books in review

Riding on the Roof

1 September 2025 Leave a Comment

Sally Blundell reviews Whaea Blue by Talia Marshall

Filed Under: creative non-fiction, fiction, memoir

I Run My Fingers Over the Hem of a T-shirt in Kmart

1 August 2025 Leave a Comment

Gina Cole reviews Slowing the Sun: Essays by Nadine Hura

Filed Under: creative non-fiction, environment, essays, maori and pacific

Better than Real

1 August 2025 Leave a Comment

David Eggleton reviews Innerland: A journey through the everyday landscape of New Zealand by Matt Vance

Filed Under: creative non-fiction, essays, memoir

Roads Lifted, Mountains Moved a Metre

1 July 2025 Leave a Comment

Michelle Elvy reviews Town by Madeleine Slavick; Ash by Louise Wallace

Filed Under: art and photography, creative non-fiction, poetry

Sexual Consent

1 April 2025 Leave a Comment

Sally Blundell on The Defiance of Frances Dickinson by Wendy Parkins

Filed Under: creative non-fiction, fiction, history, literature

Our Freshly Decorated Emptiness

1 August 2024 Leave a Comment

Genevieve Scanlan on Tell Me Gently by Ruth Arnison; When I Reach For Your Pulse by Rushi Vyas; A Liminal Gathering: Elixir & Star Grief Almanac 2023 edited by Iona Winter

Filed Under: creative non-fiction, poetry

The Bookish Tramper

1 May 2024 Leave a Comment

Tim Saunders on Bushline: A memoir by Robbie Burton

Filed Under: creative non-fiction, environment, memoir

From Te Kore to Te Po, From Past to Present

1 March 2024 Leave a Comment

Jeffrey Holman on Ngā Kupu Wero edited by Witi Ihimaera with an introduction by Jacinta Ruru

Filed Under: creative non-fiction, essays, maori and pacific

Tectonic Ruptures, Biblical Raptures and Nuclear Blasts

1 March 2024 2 Comments

Wendy Parkins on End Times by Rebecca Priestley

Filed Under: creative non-fiction, environment, memoir

Nothing Inside But Stars

1 September 2023 Leave a Comment

Rachel Smith on A Kind of Shelter Whakaruru-taha: An anthology of new writing for a changed world edited by Witi Ihimaera and Michelle Elvy

Filed Under: anthology, creative non-fiction, essays, fiction, poetry

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