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The Landfall Tauraka Review

The Landfall Tauraka Review: Aotearoa New Zealand books in review

Learning to Get Along

7 October 2026 Leave a Comment

Rowan Light reviews The Meeting Place: Māori and Pākehā encounters, 1642–1840 by Vincent O’Malley

Filed Under: history, maori and pacific

Walking through Many Histories and Futures Simultaneously

28 August 2026 Leave a Comment

David Eggleton reviews Whenua edited by Chloe Cull, Ken Hall, Felicity Milburn, Melanie Oliver and Peter Vangioni

Filed Under: art and photography, essays, history, maori and pacific

Awkward Places

18 August 2026 Leave a Comment

Thomas McLean reviews The Art of Colonisation: Images of Europe’s encounters with New Zealand by Paul Moon

Filed Under: art and photography, history

Marching to Barracks

10 July 2026 Leave a Comment

Hazel Petrie reviews Garrison World: Redcoat soldiers in New Zealand and across the British Empire by Charlotte Macdonald

Filed Under: history

What Kind of Society Are We Trying to Build?

10 June 2026 Leave a Comment

Robert McLean reviews Edges of Empire: The politics of immigration in Aotearoa New Zealand, 1980–2020 by Francis L. Collins, Alan Gamlen and Neil Vallelly

Filed Under: history, politics

Ghosts of the Big Ice

22 May 2026 Leave a Comment

Tim Saunders reviews South by South: New Zealand and the Heroic Age of Antarctic exploration by Charles Ferrall

Filed Under: history

The Moral Covenant

5 May 2026 Leave a Comment

Tom Brooking reviews The Origins of an Experimental Society: New Zealand, 1769–1860 by Erik Olssen

Filed Under: history, maori and pacific

Photographs Fixed in Silver

3 November 2025 Leave a Comment

Max Oettli reviews Leslie Adkin: Farmer photographer by Athol McCredie

Filed Under: art and photography, history

The Price of Citizenship

1 September 2025 Leave a Comment

Helen Watson White reviews Te Hau Kāinga: The Māori Home Front during the Second World War by Angela Wanhalla, Sarah Christie, Lachy Paterson, Ross Webb and Erica Newman

Filed Under: history, maori and pacific

Not Us

1 July 2025 Leave a Comment

Nicholas Reid reviews Becoming Aotearoa: A new history of New Zealand by Michael Belgrave

Filed Under: history

A Phantom Jigsaw

1 June 2025 Leave a Comment

Pat White on Lily, Oh Lily: Searching for a Nazi ghost by Jeffrey Paparoa Holman

Filed Under: biography, history, memoir, travelogue

Looking Out for Others

1 May 2025 Leave a Comment

Helen Watson White on Power to Win: The Living Wage Movement in Aotearoa New Zealand by Lyndy McIntyre

Filed Under: history, politics

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