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The Landfall Tauraka Review: Aotearoa New Zealand books in review

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

Would Mr Olds Please Report on Hands and Knees

8 May 2026 2 Comments

Philip Temple reviews Minding His Own Poetry Composing Business: A biography of Peter Olds by Roger Hickin

Filed Under: biography

The Moral Covenant

5 May 2026 Leave a Comment

Tom Brooking reviews The Origins of an Experimental Society: New Zealand, 1769–1860 by Erik Olssen

Filed Under: history, maori and pacific

The Stumps of Trees Cut Down Were Still There

24 April 2026 2 Comments

David Eggleton reviews Mark Adams: A survey | He Kohinga Whakaahu by Sarah Farrar, Aotearoa Light: Moments of wonder and realisation in New Zealand wilderness by Peter Laurenson and Slow Burn Ahi Tāmau | Women and Photography Māreikura Whakaahua by Lissa Mitchell

Filed Under: art and photography

Your Phone Was Fully Charged

21 April 2026 Leave a Comment

Erik Kennedy reviews Mad Diva by Cadence Chung; Perverse Verse by Michael Gould; The Innocent Eye by Brian Gregory; and Pill-Rolling Fingers: Poems about early-onset Parkinson’s by Tara Coleman

Filed Under: poetry

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

Absences and Secrets

9 April 2026 Leave a Comment

Wendy Parkins reviews A Gap in Nature by Elspeth Sandys

Filed Under: fiction

The Uncanny Double

6 April 2026 Leave a Comment

David Herkt reviews Outliers: Eight Antipodean tales by Michael Jackson

Filed Under: fiction, short stories

A new schedule

31 March 2026 Leave a Comment

From April, reviews will be published throughout the month.

Filed Under: Uncategorized

One Hundred Percent Safe

2 March 2026 Leave a Comment

Tina Shaw reviews All Her Lives by Ingrid Horrocks

Filed Under: fiction, short stories

Both Sleek and Hostile

2 March 2026 Leave a Comment

Patricia McLean reviews See How They Fall by Rachel Paris

Filed Under: crime fiction, fiction

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