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Knowing one another, Maggie Trapp
The Beat of the Pendulum: A Found Novel Catherine Chidgey Victoria University Press, $35.00, ISBN 9781776561704 Tess Kirsten McDougall Victoria University Press, $25.00, ISBN 9781776561001 Gabriel’s Bay Catherine Robertson Black Swan, $38.00, ISBN 9780143771456 Imaginative writing takes the hurly-burly of…
Tagged with: Autumn 2018, Black Swan, Catherine Chidgey, Catherine Robertson, Issue 121, Kirsten McDougall, Maggie Trapp, Victoria University Press
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Bleak stuff under total control, Stephanie Johnson
The Wish Child Catherine Chidgey Victoria University Press, $30.00, IBSN 9781776560622 When Dutch writer Herman Koch visited New Zealand as part of the 2016 Auckland Writers’ Festival, he expressed his belief that WWII was losing its allure as a subject…
Tagged with: Autumn 2017, Catherine Chidgey, Issue 117, Stephanie Johnson, Victoria University Press
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Keeping your hair on, Heather Murray
The Transformation Catherine Chidgey Victoria University Press, $29.95, ISBN 0864734654 In Mutes and Earthquakes Bill Manhire gives his creative writing pupils a couple of pieces of advice: 1) write what you know, and 2) write what you don’t know. If,…
Tagged with: Catherine Chidgey, Heather Murray, Issue 64, Summer 2003, Victoria University Press
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Only connect, Sally Sutton
Golden Deeds Catherine Chidgey Victoria University Press, $29.95, ISBN 0 86473 384 4 In the pool of New Zealand writers who have achieved success in the literary spotlight, Catherine Chidgey has made a big splash. Her award-winning first novel, In…
Tagged with: Catherine Chidgey, Issue 44, Sally Sutton, Victoria University Press
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Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Catherine Chidgey — work in progress
From a work in progress [Marin and his brother Ivan are living in a rough gumfield whare in the far north of New Zealand around 1900. This section opens with a letter from Marin to his sister.] A strange…
Half-baked and home-cooked, Jane Westaway
having words with you Sarah Quigley Penguin Books, $24.95 ISBN 0 14027376 X In a fishbone church Catherine Chidgey Victoria University Press, $24.95 ISBN 0 86473335 6 You can’t consider two first books by young women writers without being reminded…
Tagged with: Catherine Chidgey, Issue 34, Jane Westaway, Sarah Quigley
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