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To hell and gone, down there, Jane Westaway

Posted on December 1, 2009 by NZ Books

Zone of the Marvellous: In Search of the Antipodes Martin Edmond Auckland University Press, $34.99, ISBN 9781869404475 Anna Kavan’s New Zealand: A Pacific Interlude in a Turbulent Life Jennifer Sturm (ed) Vintage, $36.99, ISBN 9781869791339 Passageways: The Story of a…

Tagged with: Ann Thwaite, Auckland University Press, Bloomsbury, Christina Thompson, Issue 88, Jane Westaway, Jennifer Sturm, Martin Edmond, Otago University Press, Summer 2009, Vintage
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review

Awkward positions , Christina Thompson

Posted on June 1, 2006 by NZ Books

Pictures by Goya and Other Stories Vincent O’Sullivan Penguin, $28.00, ISBN 0143020552 In the title story of Vincent O’Sullivan’s collection Pictures by Goya, two characters find themselves in an awkward position. They have been carrying on an adulterous affair when…

Tagged with: Christina Thompson, Issue 74, Penguin, Vincent O’Sullivan, Winter 2006
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, Short stories

What it’s all about, Christina Thompson

Posted on September 1, 2004 by NZ Books

Stonefish Keri Hulme Huia, $34.95, ISBN 1869690885 Keri Hulme’s new collection Stonefish is so unremarkable it sent me back to the bone people to see what all the fuss had been about. How could a Booker Prize-winner produce so slight…

Tagged with: Christina Thompson, Huia, Issue 67, Keri Hulme, Spring 2004
Posted in Literature, Review, Short stories