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The Landfall Tauraka Review: Aotearoa New Zealand books in review

At This Range He Couldn’t Miss

5 June 2026 Leave a Comment

Tim Jones reviews Dead Ends by Laura Borrowdale and The Emotion Dealer and other stories by Jack Remiel Cottrell

Filed Under: fiction, flash fiction, short stories

Frustration, Anger, Dejection, Dissatisfaction

12 May 2026 2 Comments

Vaughan Rapatahana reviews Beyond the Reef: Selected stories by Graeme Lay

Filed Under: fiction, short stories

Fierce with Happiness

17 April 2026 Leave a Comment

Siobhan Harvey reviews Hiding Places by Lynley Edmeades and Eddie Sparkle’s Bridal Taxi by Frankie McMillan

Filed Under: fiction, short stories

As If She’d Been to Bluff and Back

13 April 2026 Leave a Comment

Rachel O’Connor reviews Deliverywoman: Stories by Eva Wyles

Filed Under: fiction, short stories

The Uncanny Double

6 April 2026 Leave a Comment

David Herkt reviews Outliers: Eight Antipodean tales by Michael Jackson

Filed Under: fiction, short stories

One Hundred Percent Safe

2 March 2026 Leave a Comment

Tina Shaw reviews All Her Lives by Ingrid Horrocks

Filed Under: fiction, short stories

But Baby, I Love You

1 February 2026 Leave a Comment

Jack Ross reviews Pastoral Care by John Prins

Filed Under: fiction, short stories

Kōrero Each to Each

3 November 2025 Leave a Comment

Elizabeth Heritage reviews Te Moana o Reo | Ocean of Languages edited by Michelle Elvy and Vaughan Rapatahana

Filed Under: anthology, essays, short stories, social sciences

Setting a Bad Example for the Kids

1 September 2025 Leave a Comment

Rachel O’Connor reviews Surplus Women by Michelle Duff

Filed Under: fiction, short stories

The Gender Divide

1 May 2025 Leave a Comment

Gill South on The Pets We Have Killed by Barbara Else

Filed Under: fiction, short stories, women's fiction

Fear and Fearlessness

1 March 2025 2 Comments

Emma Neale on Pretty Ugly by Kirsty Gunn

Filed Under: fiction, short stories

She Had Long Black Hair and Looked Too Thin

1 March 2025 Leave a Comment

Penelope Todd on Wild, Wild Women by Janis Freegard and Below Ground by Sandra Arnold

Filed Under: fiction, flash fiction, short stories

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