Taming the Tiger: A Personal Encounter with Manic Depression Michael Morrissey Polygraphia, $39.00, ISBN 9781877332968 Sing No Sad Songs Sandra Arnold Canterbury University Press, $35.00, ISBN 9781927145067 Michael Morrissey’s account of his long encounter with mental affliction begins…
A Distraction of Opposites Sandra Arnold, Hazard Press, Christchurch, $24.95 The front cover illustration of A Distraction of Opposites is a painting by Heather Busch entitled ‘Look at the Pattern.’ At first glance, what you see is ordinary objects on top…
Imagining murder and menace, Sandra Arnold
Soon after my novel, A Distraction of Opposites, was published I saw a long and extraordinary review of it in New Zealand titled: Many hidden insights in ultra–complex first novel. The first half defined the kind of novel the reviewer…
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