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The Forrests Emily Perkins Bloomsbury Circus, $30.00, ISBN 9781408809235 By the time I came to read Emily Perkins’s novel The Forrests, it had already attracted considerable controversy: on the one hand, there were the comparisons with Virginia Woolf and…
The Picnic Virgin New Writers Chosen by Emily Perkins Victoria University Press, $29.95, ISBN 0 86473 368 2 Without exception, the stories in this slim volume are lively, energetic narratives peopled with sharply drawn, vivid characters. This is the strength…
Waiting for the (non-)event David Geary (DG): Has this lunch interrupted your day? Emily Perkins (EP): No, I always take a break in the afternoons. DG: You’re not a binge writer? EP: Nope. Nor top up. DG: Sorry? EP: It’s…
A Boy and his Uncle Anne Kennedy Picador $24.95 ISBN 0 33036057 4 Leave Before You Go Emily Perkins Picador $24.95 ISBN 0 33037204 1 In the opening pages of both these novels is that journey we all are heir…
How Things Are Adrienne Jansen, Harry Ricketts, J C Sturm and Meg Campbell Whitireia Publishing and Daphne Brasell Press, $21.95 ISBN 0 958351341 four Damien Wilkins, Elizabeth Knox, Bill Manhire and Emily Perkins Published by the authors, no price given,…
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Not Her Real Name and Other Stories Emily Perkins Victoria University Press, $24.95 ISBN 084673 2891 Since I first clapped eyes on it Anna Miles’ cover design for Not Her Real Name has puzzled and intrigued me. The front cover,…
David Geary interviews Emily Perkins
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