Blog Archives

Painted ladies, Christine Johnston

Paint Your Wife  Lloyd Jones Penguin, $35, ISBN 0143019066 “He had seen one thing and thought the other. He’d  made the mistake of seeing what he expected to see, what he was used to seeing”– this quotation from the back

See more ›

Tagged with: , , , ,
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review

Four to tango, Lawrence Jones

Here at the End of the World We Learn to Dance Lloyd Jones Penguin Books, $34.95, ISBN 014308183 No reader of Lloyd Jones’s last novel, The Book of Fame, Winner of the Deutz medal in 2001, would have been able

See more ›

Tagged with: , , , ,
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review

1905: A Sports Odyssey, Adrienne Simpson

The Book of Fame Lloyd Jones Penguin, $29.95, ISBN 0140296948 New Zealanders love sport. The truth of this frequently-heard comment is daily demonstrated by the amount of space our newspapers allocate to sporting activities. Success on the cricket pitch, putting

See more ›

Tagged with: , , , ,
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review

“Silks across the birdcage”, Lloyd Jones

First Past the Post: An Anthology of New Zealand Racing Stories ed Brian Phillips Random House, $29.95, ISBN 1869414152   I’m more amused than seriously persuaded of Phar Lap’s place on National Radio’s Golden Kiwis series. At the risk of

See more ›

Tagged with: , , , ,
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, Short stories, Sport

A discomforting book, Margot Schwass

Choo Woo  Lloyd Jones Victoria University Press, $24.95, ISBN 0 86473 345 3 The roaming narratives of Lloyd Jones – lately of Russia, Paris, Albania and other exotic destinations – return to local ground with Choo Woo. It’s certainly tempting to

See more ›

Tagged with: , , ,
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review

What do you think of New Zealand? Lloyd James

The Hard Light Stuart Hoar Penguin, $29.95 ISBN 0 14027505 3 Live Bodies Maurice Gee Penguin, $34.95 ISBN 0 140273808 4 Burn my head in Heaven John Pule Penguin, $24.95 ISBN 0 14027374 3 Last year I read Drowning, a

See more ›

Tagged with: , , , , ,
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review

Magic realism, Mark Williams

This House Has Three Walls Lloyd Jones Victoria University Press, $19.95, ISBN 0 86473 321 6 There is a story, possibly apocryphal, that during World War II some captured Japanese prisoners were taken by train from Auckland to the Wairarapa

See more ›

Tagged with: , ,
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review

Perceptive short stories and a chill exploration, Sarah Sandley

Swimming to Australia Lloyd Jones, Victoria University Press, Wellington, 1992, $24.95 Arena John Cranna, Minerva, Auckland, 1992, $24.95 Intelligent and insightful, Swimming to Australia is novelist Lloyd Jones’s first collection of short stories. Witty and ironic turns of phrase, constantly surprising and

See more ›

Tagged with: , , , ,
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Short stories
Search the archive
Search by category