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The Landfall Tauraka Review: Aotearoa New Zealand books in review

Story Sovereignty

1 October 2025 Leave a Comment

David Eggleton reviews Books of Mana: 180 Māori-authored books of significance edited by Jacinta Ruru, Angela Wanhalla and Jeanette Wikaira

Filed Under: arts and culture, essays, literature, maori and pacific

Our Position Is In the Highest Degree Tragic

1 April 2025 Leave a Comment

Robert McLean on Forms of Freedom: Marxist essays in New Zealand and Australian literature by Dougal McNeill

Filed Under: arts and culture, essays, literature, politics, social sciences

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

Catching Fire

1 October 2024 Leave a Comment

Wendy Parkins on The Beautiful Afternoon by Airini Beautrais

Filed Under: essays, literature, short stories

The Great Pākehā Land Grab

3 October 2023 Leave a Comment

David Eggleton on A Roderick Finlayson Reader edited by Roger Hickin; Roderick Finlayson: A Man from Another World by Roger Hickin

Filed Under: biography, literature, memoir

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

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

What a Human Muddle

1 June 2022 Leave a Comment

Stephen Stratford on Life as a Novel: A biography of Maurice Shadbolt, Volume 2 1973–2004 by Philip Temple

Filed Under: biography, literature

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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