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The Landfall Tauraka Review: Aotearoa New Zealand books in review

Extraordinary Lives

1 June 2023 Leave a Comment

Nod Ghosh on Tales from the Wood’s Edge: A memoir by Wilma Laryn and So Far, For Now by Fiona Kidman

Filed Under: memoir

When the Sun is Being a Bastard

1 May 2023 Leave a Comment

Lawrence Patchett on Under a Big Sky: Facing the elements on a New Zealand farm by Tim Saunders

Filed Under: environment, memoir

Haunted by Home

1 March 2023 Leave a Comment

Shana Chandra on Small Bodies of Water by Nina Mingya Powles; Sign Language for the Death of Reason by Linda Collins; Island Notes: Finding my place on Aotea Great Barrier Island by Tim Highman

Filed Under: fiction, memoir, Uncategorized

Parade of Humanity

1 February 2023 Leave a Comment

Helen Watson White on To Be Fair: Confessions of a District Court Judge by Rosemary Riddell

Filed Under: law, memoir

Note to Self

1 December 2022 Leave a Comment

Wendy Parkins on Notes on Womanhood by Sarah Jane Barnett; You Probably Think This Song is About You by Kate Camp

Filed Under: memoir

‘Disobedience and Bravery’: The Power of Female Image-Making

1 December 2022 Leave a Comment

Mary Macpherson on Gaylene’s Take: Her Life in New Zealand Film by Gaylene Preston; droplet by Sheryl Campbell

Filed Under: art and photography, memoir

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman

1 August 2022 Leave a Comment

Wendy Parkins on Raiment: A Memoir by Jan Kemp (Massey University Press, 2022); Things I Learned at Art School by Megan Dunn (Penguin, 2021)

Filed Under: memoir

Muses in a Hall of Mirrors

1 August 2022 Leave a Comment

Rachel O’Connor on The Birds Began to Sing: A memoir of a New Zealand composer by Dorothy Buchanan (Cuba Press, 2021); Unposted, Autumn Leaves: A memoir in essays by Stephen Oliver (Greywacke Press, 2021)

Filed Under: memoir

Home Truths

1 July 2022 Leave a Comment

Wendy Parkins on Grand: Becoming my mother’s daughter by Noelle McCarthy

Filed Under: memoir

Architectures of Absence

1 July 2022 Leave a Comment

Kerry Lane on Come Back to Mona Vale: Life and death in a Christchurch mansion, by Alexander McKinnon

Filed Under: memoir

Standing Strong

1 July 2022 Leave a Comment

Tina Shaw on Sista, Stanap Strong! edited by Mikaela Nyman and Rebecca Tobo Olul-Hossen

Filed Under: anthology, maori and pacific, memoir, poetry, short stories

To Re-remember and Re-learn

1 May 2022 Leave a Comment

Rachel Smith on The Forgotten Coast by Richard Shaw; Wai Pasifika: Indigenous ways in a changing climate by David Young.

Filed Under: art and photography, environment, memoir, natural history, social sciences

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