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The Landfall Tauraka Review: Aotearoa New Zealand books in review

Memory Trying to Touch the Bottom of the Deep Lake

1 August 2025 Leave a Comment

Tony Beyer reviews in the cracks of light by Apirana Taylor; Clay Eaters by Gregory Kan; The Anatomy of Sand by Mikaela Nyman

Filed Under: fiction, memoir, poetry

What We Fear Is Being Reviewed Maliciously

1 July 2025 Leave a Comment

John Gibb reviews The Royal Free by Carl Shuke

Filed Under: fiction

Their Souls Will Be Captured by Another Atua

1 June 2025 Leave a Comment

Michael O’Leary on Kāwai: Tree of nourishment by Monty Soutar

Filed Under: fiction, maori and pacific

My Kōrero Will Go Viral

1 June 2025 Leave a Comment

Ash Davida Jane on All That We Know by Shilo Kino

Filed Under: fiction, maori and pacific

The Parents of a Dead Child

1 May 2025 Leave a Comment

Breton Dukes on Delirious by Damien Wilkins

Filed Under: fiction

Fitting In

1 May 2025 Leave a Comment

Jack Ross on The Life and Opinions of Kartik Popat by Brannavan Gnanalingam

Filed Under: fiction

The Gender Divide

1 May 2025 Leave a Comment

Gill South on The Pets We Have Killed by Barbara Else

Filed Under: fiction, short stories, women's fiction

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

Rules That Weren’t Made with Him in Mind

1 April 2025 Leave a Comment

Ash Davida Jane on Max by Avi Duckor-Jones

Filed Under: fiction, queer writing

Fear and Fearlessness

1 March 2025 2 Comments

Emma Neale on Pretty Ugly by Kirsty Gunn

Filed Under: fiction, short stories

She Had Long Black Hair and Looked Too Thin

1 March 2025 Leave a Comment

Penelope Todd on Wild, Wild Women by Janis Freegard and Below Ground by Sandra Arnold

Filed Under: fiction, flash fiction, short stories

The Blue Drift

1 March 2025 Leave a Comment

Lindsay Rabbitt on Selected Poems by Mike Johnson; Sketches: Poems and drawings by Mike Johnson with artwork by Leila Lees; and Afterworld by Mike Johnson

Filed Under: fiction, poetry

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