Sally Blundell, Author at Aotearoa New Zealand Review of Books

Fiction Literature Nonfiction Short Stories

Table Talk: Opinions, stories and a play
by C.K. Stead

The 'sharp and unforgiving eye' of an acclaimed writer and scholar with a reputation for 'bullish contrariness'.

Sally BlundellApril 4, 2025

Fiction Literary Fiction Short Stories

New Stories
by Owen Marshall

A 'masterclass in the art of the short story'.

Sally BlundellNovember 20, 2024

Fiction Literary Fiction Novel

At the Grand Glacier Hotel
by Laurence Fearnley

Nature is volatile and isolating in an evocative novel 'aimed at the senses'.

Sally BlundellJune 21, 2024

History Māori Nature Nonfiction Science

Hard by the Cloud House
by Peter Walker

'Like a dagger at a pyjama party': the histories of a giant raptor.

Sally BlundellMay 14, 2024

Memoir Nonfiction

Do You Still Have Time for Chaos?
by Lynn Davidson

A 'discursive exploration of belonging and not belonging, of the pull of home and the play of history'.

Sally BlundellFebruary 21, 2024

Anthology Fiction Literary Fiction Māori Pasifika Short Stories

The Penguin NZ Anthology: 50 stories for 50 years in Aotearoa

A ' long, loud song for a strong and evolving tradition' of story-writing.

Sally BlundellNovember 1, 2023

Fiction Novel

Landed
by Sue McCauley

'The whole country is living on borrowed money': a long-awaited novel surveys one family's changing fortunes in the 80s and 90s.

Sally BlundellMarch 31, 2023

Fiction Literary Fiction Novel

Winter Time by Laurence Fearnley

Creeping unease, swirling snow: an Otago novel centred on a frozen family home.

Sally BlundellSeptember 14, 2022

Fiction Literary Fiction Short Stories

Mary’s Boy, Jean-Jacques and other stories by Vincent O’Sullivan

Reviewed by Sally Blundell

Sally BlundellApril 27, 2022

Biography Essays Māori Nonfiction Pasifika

Nine Lives: New Zealand Writers on Notable New Zealanders by Catherine Robertson, Lloyd Jones, Selina Tusitala Marsh, Pala Molisa, Paul Thomas, Elspeth Sandys, Stephanie Johnson, Malcolm Mulholland, Paula Morris and Greg McGee.