Book Review – The Better Sister and other stories
This is a collection of short stories that all have something in common: three sisters. Except they’re not all necessarily alive.
Book Review – Into the Ashes
The mountains are erupting. The citizens have been evacuated…except for a handful of scientists and a busload of prisoners. The army is sent in to round up the stragglers, but the prisoners aren’t so keen on being caught.
Book Review – Never Ending Footsteps
Nina M.C. Payne is a woman who has spent a lifetime reaching out to others with empathy and compassion in the hope of understanding them better. Much of this ethic comes from her love of travel and adventure...
Book Review – Golden City
This final book in the trilogy, Golden City, brings Freya’s epic journey to a satisfying conclusion while leaving room for more adventures in SR Manssen’s world of myth and magic.
Book Review – After the Act
Set mostly in suburbia, in upstairs flats and at kitchen tables, Argante’s focus is on her characters, particularly their inadequacies, as they navigate marriages, divorces, parenthood. There are stories about loss and disappointment. Regret. Acceptance.
Book Review – Captured by Māori
This book, by Tauranga historian Trevor Bentley was published in 2004 and is just one of a long line of excellent local history books by Bentley which focus the intersection of Māori and European cultures since the latter arrived on these shores.
Book Review – Grotesque: Monster Stories
Two stories that will leave you mulling long after you close this book are Cave Fever and Lifeblood. Cave Fever is set in an unknown future, where science has perverted biological nature for society to survive long after their good intentions have lost all meaning.
Qualifying as an Antique
A presentation on 2nd April 2017 by by Tauranga Writers president Jenny Argante to the Tauranga Historical Society. Tauranga Writers was founded on the 21st June 1967. If I were to write my own memoir, I would begin, “I am a word wizard born [...]
Reading the Past, Writing the Future
Jenny Argante's 2002 winning essay in Takehe Cultural Studies Competition Make it new, said Pound, and the Modernists listened. Yet there was an inherent paradox within his words, for he also instructed us to immerse ourselves in ‘the river of tradition’.And how else can [...]
A report on visiting USA Amazon bestseller Mark Wandrey
Tauranga Writers held an extra event on Sunday 17 September 2017, 10am at The Raft Café boardroom for visiting American novelist Mark H Wandrey. Mark was accompanied by his wife, Joy, between them they formed a dynamic speaking pair. The two hours with them and a [...]