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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

Beyond Biography

1 December 2022 Leave a Comment

Sarah Christie on Thief, Convict, Pirate, Wife: The many histories of Charlotte Badger by Jennifer Ashton

Filed Under: biography, history

Dawn Disservice 

1 November 2022 Leave a Comment

Robert McLean on Anzac Nations: The Legacy of Gallipoli in New Zealand and Australia by Rowan Light

Filed Under: history

Revolution Matters

1 October 2022 1 Comment

Philip Matthews on Jumping Sundays: The rise and fall of the counterculture in Aotearoa New Zealand by Nick Bollinger

Filed Under: history, social sciences

Stone House & Straw Houses  

1 September 2022 Leave a Comment

Max Oettli on Ravenscar House: A Biography by Sally Blundell (Canterbury University Press, 2022) and Road People of Aotearoa: House truck journeys 1978–1984 by Paul Gilbert (Rim Books, 2021)

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

Writing Decolonisation, Rewriting Sovereignty

1 May 2022 Leave a Comment

Emma Gattey on Two Hundred and Fifty Ways to Start an Essay about Captain Cook by Alice Te Punga Somerville; Imagining Decolonisation by Bianca Elkington et al.

Filed Under: history, maori and pacific, reviews and essays

A Stubborn Kind of Integrity

1 April 2022 Leave a Comment

Helen Watson White on Enough Horizon: The life and work of Blanche Baughan by Carol Markwell

Filed Under: biography, history

The Enchantments of Uncertainty

1 February 2022 1 Comment

Emma Gattey on Tranquillity and Ruin by Danyl McLauchlan; Love America by Jenny Robin Jones

Filed Under: history, politics, reviews and essays, social sciences

The Decade That Never Dies

1 December 2021 Leave a Comment

David Eggleton on Time to Make a Song and Dance by Murray Edmond

Filed Under: arts and culture, history

An Unstoppable Force

1 November 2021 Leave a Comment

Helen Watson White on Kate Edger by Diana Morrow

Filed Under: biography, history, politics

Countering Commonplace Narratives 

1 July 2021 Leave a Comment

Giovanni Tiso on From Suffrage to a Seat in the House by Jenny Coleman, Crossing the Lines by Brent Coutts

Filed Under: gender identity, history, memoir, politics

Gardens for the People! 

1 May 2021 Leave a Comment

James Beattie on Common Ground by Matt Morris

Filed Under: environment, history, maori and pacific

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