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The Landfall Tauraka Review

The Landfall Tauraka Review: Aotearoa New Zealand books in review

If These Walls Could Talk

1 July 2022 Leave a Comment

Sally Blundell on Home Theatre by Anthony Lapwood

Filed Under: short stories

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

The Outrageous and the Everyday

1 April 2022 Leave a Comment

Kerry Lane on The Pink Jumpsuit: Short fictions, tall truths by Emma Neale

Filed Under: fiction, literature, short stories

Between the Long and the Short of It

1 April 2022 Leave a Comment

Sally Blundell on Middle Distance: Long Stories of Aotearoa New Zealand ed. Craig Gamble

Filed Under: fiction, literature, sci fi fantasy, short stories

At the Edge of Storytelling

1 December 2021 Leave a Comment

Vaughan Rapatahana on I Wish, I Wish by Zirk van den Berg; Ten Acceptable Acts of Arson by Jack Remiel Cottrell

Filed Under: fiction, short stories

Variations on a Theme

1 November 2021 Leave a Comment

Wendy Parkins on The Piano Girls by Elizabeth Smither

Filed Under: short stories

Voices of Aotearoa

1 October 2021 Leave a Comment

Rachel Smith on Strong Words #2 selected by Emma Neale; Te Kinakina, ed Vaughan Rapatahana

Filed Under: poetry, short stories

Finding Our Light 

1 August 2021 Leave a Comment

Renee Liang on A Clear Dawnedited by Paula Morris and Alison Wong

Filed Under: asian writers, fiction, short stories

The Treachery of Words (and Images)

1 June 2021 Leave a Comment

Robyn Maree Pickens on This Is Not a Pipe by Tara Black and Timelights by Martin Edmond

Filed Under: fiction, graphic art, short stories

The Secret Life of Everyone

1 May 2021 Leave a Comment

Rachel O’Connor on Bug Week & Other Stories by Airini Beautrais

Filed Under: fiction, short stories

He Whakarite Ataahua/A Beautiful Arrangement

1 March 2021 Leave a Comment

Gina Cole on Ko Aotearoa Tātou, eds Michelle Elvy, Paula Morris, James Norcliffe and David Eggleton

Filed Under: art and photography, fiction, poetry, reviews and essays, short stories

Confidently His Own

1 August 2020 Leave a Comment

Vincent O’Sullivan on What Sort of Man by Breton Dukes

Filed Under: fiction, short stories

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