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Absolutely fabulous, Thom Conroy
The Absolute Book Elizabeth Knox Victoria University Press, $35.00, ISBN 9781776562305 The Absolute Book by Elizabeth Knox is a Ronsardian ode to worldbuilding. Who creates worlds? What connects them? Who controls them? These questions shape the novel’s plot, subject and…
Tagged with: Elizabeth Knox, Issue 128, Summer 2019, Thom Conroy, Victoria University Press
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
The human condition in extremis, Anna Rogers
Wake Elizabeth Knox Victoria University Press, $35.00, ISBN 9780864737700 “We have experiences that push us out of the flow of time. We react as if the worst hasn’t already happened. We are creatures who learn, and something we learn is…
Tagged with: Anna Rogers, Autumn 2014, Elizabeth Knox, Issue 105, Victoria University Press
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Wearing their ethics on their sleeves, Jack Ross
Mortal Fire Elizabeth Knox Gecko Press, $30.00, ISBN 9781877579530 Dear Vincent Mandy Hager Random House, $20.00, ISBN 9781775533276 There was a time when I used to wait eagerly for each new YA novel by Margaret Mahy. Starting with The Haunting…
Tagged with: Elizabeth Knox, Gecko Press, Issue 103, Jack Ross, Mandy Hager, Random House, Spring 2013
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
Fierce bliss, Jane Stafford
The Angel’s Cut Elizabeth Knox Victoria University Press, $35.00, ISBN 9780864736000 In Elizabeth Knox’s 1998 novel The Vintner’s Luck an old French peasant from 19th century Burgundy who sees the angel Xas is carted off to the asylum; in its…
Tagged with: Elizabeth Knox, Issue 87, Jane Stafford, Spring 2009, Victoria University Press
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Sheering off, Michael Hulse
The Love School: Personal Essays Elizabeth Knox Victoria University Press, $33.00, ISBN 9780864735928 Paremata, the childhood novella which followed her debut novel After Z-Hour, was my own first encounter with Elizabeth Knox’s writing. The copy she gave me is inscribed…
Tagged with: Autumn 2009, Elizabeth Knox, Issue 85, Michael Hulse, Victoria University Press
Posted in Essays, Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Essays, Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Dreaming on, Tatjana Schaefer
Dreamquake Elizabeth Knox HarperCollins, $27.99, ISBN 0732281946 “The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there”: L P Hartley’s famous opening to The Go-Between has become proverbial, and most media nowadays enjoy the occasional nostalgia-trip into this exotic…
Tagged with: Elizabeth Knox, HarperCollins, Issue 80, Summer 2007, Tatjana Schaefer
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
Unearthly mapmaking, Anna Jackson
Dreamhunter Elizabeth Knox HarperCollins, $24.95, ISBN 0732281938 The Time of the Giants Anne Kennedy Auckland University Press, $27.99, ISBN 1869403428 Maddigan’s Fantasia Margaret Mahy HarperCollins, $24.95, ISBN 1869505611 Maddigan’s Fantasia opens with Garland Maddigan’s note to herself, “Written down things…
Tagged with: Anna Jackson, Anne Kennedy, Auckland University Press, Elizabeth Knox, HarperCollins, Issue 70, Margaret Mahy, Winter 2005
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
About those vampires, Jane Stafford
Daylight Elizabeth Knox Victoria University Press, $29.95, ISBN 0864734492 Bad O’Phelan is a New Zealand caver traumatised by the memory of Dart Ridge, a Cave Creek disaster, which he survived “taking three backward steps off the viewing platform above the…
Tagged with: Elizabeth Knox, Issue 60, Jane Stafford, Summer 2002, Victoria University Press
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Hard Knox, Robert Onopa
Black Oxen Elizabeth Knox Victoria University Press, $29.95, ISBN 0864734093 From the first paragraph of Elizabeth Knox’s previous novel, Vintner’s Luck, the reader enters as complete and rich an alternative world as exists in contemporary fiction. It is a world…
Tagged with: Elizabeth Knox, Issue 50, October 2001, Robert Onopa, Victoria University Press
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
My ideal reader, Elizabeth Knox
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