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The Landfall Tauraka Review: Aotearoa New Zealand books in review

Total Immersion

18 September 2026 Leave a Comment

Jordan Tricklebank reviews Te Kaikaukau | The Swimmer: i te ao o te reo by Witi Ihimaera Smiler

Filed Under: fiction, memoir, short stories

An Essential Sadness

8 September 2026 Leave a Comment

Sally Blundell reviews What We Remember, What We Forget by Siobhan Harvey

Filed Under: autobiography, memoir

Big Freaky Plans

13 August 2026 Leave a Comment

Airini Beautrais reviews Age of Orpah by Carin Smeaton and Leather and Chains: My 1986 diary by Kate Camp

Filed Under: autobiography, memoir, poetry

Greedy For Life

31 July 2026 Leave a Comment

Michael O’Leary reviews Venus Has No Arms, God Has No Clothes: Born to be an artist by Jenny Hunt

Filed Under: autobiography, memoir

I Tend the Wounded

1 December 2025 Leave a Comment

Eric Trump reviews Everything but the Medicine: A doctor’s tale by Lucy O’Hagan; and A Physician’s Journey: A memoir by Eric Espiner

Filed Under: medical humanities, memoir

Riding on the Roof

1 September 2025 Leave a Comment

Sally Blundell reviews Whaea Blue by Talia Marshall

Filed Under: creative non-fiction, fiction, memoir

Memory Trying to Touch the Bottom of the Deep Lake

1 August 2025 Leave a Comment

Tony Beyer reviews in the cracks of light by Apirana Taylor; Clay Eaters by Gregory Kan; The Anatomy of Sand by Mikaela Nyman

Filed Under: fiction, memoir, poetry

Better than Real

1 August 2025 Leave a Comment

David Eggleton reviews Innerland: A journey through the everyday landscape of New Zealand by Matt Vance

Filed Under: creative non-fiction, essays, memoir

Diana and the Golden Age of Television

1 July 2025 Leave a Comment

Elizabeth Smither reviews Unreel: A life in review by Diana Wichtel

Filed Under: memoir

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

The Young Kamp Girls Meet Up at the Casa D’Oro

1 May 2025 Leave a Comment

Max Oettli on Hine Toa: A story of bravery by Ngāhuia Te Awekōtuku

Filed Under: maori and pacific, memoir, politics, queer writing

The Theatre of War

1 February 2025 Leave a Comment

Nicholas Reid on Max Gunn’s Pay Book by Graham Lindsay

Filed Under: fiction, memoir

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