Renee RowlandMar 22, 20191 min3/19: We Four, and The Stories We Told by Henry Lapham (1880)Four men sit in a shanty bar, telling stories into the night, buying rounds of nips to help them tell their yarns. There are four stories, recalling 'ghost s...
Renee RowlandFeb 25, 20192 min4/19 Visscitudes of Bush Life in Australia and New ZealandIf you're hoping this is an early colonial iteration of the Barry Crump-esque trope of the great kiwi bushman, you'll be disappointed. Dugald Ferguson descri...
Renee RowlandFeb 6, 20195 min2/19: Station Life in New ZealandFirst published in 1870, Station Life is the non-fiction account of an Englishwoman living on a remote station in Canterbury in the late 1860s. It is written...
Renee RowlandJan 18, 20194 min1/19: Taranaki: A Tale of the WarIn 1861 Charles Dickens was writing Great Expectations, Abraham Lincoln presided over the un-United States of America, George Eliot wrote Silas Marner and Ba...
Renee RowlandJan 9, 20191 minPrelude: 19 NZ books in 2019This is the blog of our 2019 reading challenge, to read more New Zealand Literature, specifically, to read 19 New Zealand books in 2019. Upon finding that th...
