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The Landfall Tauraka Review: Aotearoa New Zealand books in review

Looking in the Wrong Direction

1 April 2025 Leave a Comment

Victor Billot on The Enemy Within: The human cost of state surveillance in Aotearoa/New Zealand by Maire Leadbeater

Filed Under: history, politics

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

The Chasm Between Tikanga and British Criminal Law

1 December 2024 Leave a Comment

Philip Temple on Fragile Foundations: The application of English criminal law to crimes committed in Aotearoa New Zealand between 1826 and 1907 by David Collins

Filed Under: history, law

The Whereabouts of Sinbad’s Isle

1 October 2024 Leave a Comment

Jack Ross on Hard by the Cloud House by Peter Walker

Filed Under: history, reviews and essays

Your Position Is Not Mine

1 September 2024 Leave a Comment

Ian Wedde on Dear Colin, Dear Ron: The selected letters of Colin McCahon and Ron O’Reilly by Peter Simpson

Filed Under: art and photography, arts and culture, biography, history, letters

You Saw Nothing

1 July 2024 Leave a Comment

Max Oettli on Ans Westra: A life in photography by Paul Moon

Filed Under: art and photography, biography, history

Riddled with Phantoms and Skeletons

1 July 2024 1 Comment

Rowan Light on The Unsettled: Small stories of colonisation by Richard Shaw

Filed Under: history, social sciences

Exchanging Wisdoms

1 June 2024 Leave a Comment

Tom Brooking on Knowledge Is a Blessing on Your Mind: Selected Writings, 1980–2020by Anne Salmond

Filed Under: essays, history, maori and pacific

Sensible Sentencing

1 June 2024 Leave a Comment

Robert McLean on Blood and Dirt: Prison labour and the making of New Zealand by Jared Davidson

Filed Under: history, social sciences

John Mulgan’s War in the Shadows

1 May 2024 Leave a Comment

Giovanni Tiso on John Mulgan and the Greek Left: A regrettably intimate acquaintance by C.-Dimitris Gounelas and Ruth Parkin-Gounelas

Filed Under: history, politics

The Woman Historian Who Challenged the Orthodoxy

3 April 2024 Leave a Comment

Sarah Christie on ‘A Bloody Difficult Subject’: Ruth Ross, Te Tiriti o Waitangi and the making of history by Bain Attwood

Filed Under: biography, history

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

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