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The Landfall Tauraka Review

The Landfall Tauraka Review: Aotearoa New Zealand books in review

The Past as Possibility

1 December 2022 Leave a Comment

Catherine Robertson on By the Green of the Spring by Paddy Richardson; Mrs Jewell and the Wreck of the General Grant by Cristina Sanders

Filed Under: fiction, history

Plotting Pasifikafuturism 

1 November 2022 Leave a Comment

Sally Blundell on Na Viro by Gina Cole

Filed Under: fiction, sci fi fantasy

A Matter of Judgement

1 November 2022 Leave a Comment

Chris Else on Slow Down, You’re Here by Brannavan Gnanalingam

Filed Under: fiction

Of Magpies and Mountains

1 October 2022 Leave a Comment

Gina Cole on Butcherbird by Cassie Hart

Filed Under: fiction, literature

Short Stories, Big Pictures

1 October 2022 Leave a Comment

Iona Winter on Beats of the Pa’u by Maria Samuela; Peninsula by Sharron Came

Filed Under: fiction, literature, short stories

Six of the Best

1 October 2022 Leave a Comment

Charlotte Grimshaw on Six by Six: Short stories by New Zealand’s best writers, ed. Bill Manhire

Filed Under: fiction, literature, short stories

Giving a Damn 

1 September 2022 Leave a Comment

Sally Blundell on Arms & Legs by Chloe Lane (Te Herenga Waka University Press, 2022)

Filed Under: fiction

The Kids are Alright, For Now

1 September 2022 Leave a Comment

Craig Cliff on Down from Upland by Murdoch Stephens (Lawrence and Gibson, 2022)

Filed Under: fiction

The Best of Times, the Worst of Times

1 June 2022 Leave a Comment

Sally Blundell on A Good Winter by Gigi Fenster

Filed Under: fiction, literature

Moments More

1 June 2022 Leave a Comment

Melanie Dixon on Breach of all Size: Small stories on Ulysses, love and Venice edited by Michelle Elvy and Marco Sonzogni

Filed Under: anthology, fiction, literature

The Timeline is Elusive

1 June 2022 Leave a Comment

Jordan Hamel on Whai by Nicole Titihuia Hawkins; Tōku Pāpā by Ruby Solly; AUP New Poets 8

Filed Under: fiction, poetry

Liminal States

1 May 2022 Leave a Comment

Iona Winter on Kurangaituku by Whiti Hereaka.

Filed Under: fiction, literature, maori and pacific, Uncategorized

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