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The Landfall Tauraka Review: Aotearoa New Zealand books in review

An Unravelled Skein of Truths

1 August 2024 Leave a Comment

John Gibb on Aucklanders by Murray Edmond; Sandbank Sonnets: A memoir by Murray Edmond

Filed Under: fiction, poetry

You Can’t Delete Whakapapa

1 June 2024 Leave a Comment

Elizabeth Heritage on Blood Matters by Renée

Filed Under: fiction

Alpha Male

1 May 2024 2 Comments

Airini Beautrais on How to Disappear Completely by Nicholas Sheppard

Filed Under: fiction

He Puffs Furiously On His Pipe

1 May 2024 Leave a Comment

Nod Ghosh on A New Eden: Betaverse Trilogy (Book 1) by Menilik Henry Dyer; Taken by Alex Stone

Filed Under: fiction, sci fi fantasy

Strong Female Character

1 May 2024 Leave a Comment

David Eggleton on Lioness by Emily Perkins

Filed Under: fiction

Yeah Noir

3 April 2024 Leave a Comment

Stephanie Johnson on The Call by Gavin Strawhan

Filed Under: fiction

A Bunch of Memories Are All I’ve Got

3 April 2024 Leave a Comment

Michelle Elvy on Light Keeping by Adrienne Jansen, Secrets of the Land by Kate Mahony, and The Bones of the Story by Sandra Arnold

Filed Under: fiction

A Depressive Woman in a Hot Pool

3 April 2024 Leave a Comment

Chris Else on The Waters by Carl Nixon

Filed Under: fiction, short stories

I Put On My Red, Heart-Shaped Wall Light

1 March 2024 Leave a Comment

Jenny Powell on Dream Girl by Joy Holley; Signs of Life by Amy Head

Filed Under: fiction, poetry, queer writing

Fighting for God, King and Country

1 March 2024 Leave a Comment

Nicholas Reid on Our First Foreign War: The impact of the South African War 1899–1902 on New Zealand by Nigel Robson; I Don’t Believe In Murder: Standing up for peace in World War 1 Canterbury by Margaret Lovell-Smith; Defending Trinity College, Easter 1916: Anzacs and the Rising by Rory Sweetman; Who Disturbs the Kukupa? by Kayleen Hazlehurst

Filed Under: fiction, history, politics, social sciences

Brute at Bay

1 February 2024 1 Comment

Tina Shaw on The Seasonwife by Saige England

Filed Under: fiction

I Held Hands with the Frightened, the Newly Born, the Bereft, the Dying and the Sick

1 February 2024 Leave a Comment

Michael O’Leary on Mila and the Bone Man by Lauren Roche

Filed Under: fiction

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