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Writing in circles, Kate Duignan
Caroline’s Bikini Kirsty Gunn Faber and Faber, $33.00, ISBN 9780571339334 Caroline’s Bikini is a text written by Emily Stuart, in which she “takes dictation” from her oldest friend, Evan Gordonston, recently returned from the United States to London, and helplessly…
Tagged with: Faber and Faber, Issue 123, Kate Duignan, Kirsty Gunn, Spring 2018
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Streets, waters, winds, Kirsty Gunn
A Strange Beautiful Excitement: Katherine Mansfield’s Wellington 1888 – 1903 Redmer Yska Otago University Press, $40.00, ISBN 9780947522544 “There is a handful of writers” begins Vincent O’Sullivan’s introduction to a rare and illuminating account of the city in which Katherine…
Tagged with: Issue 120, Kirsty Gunn, Otago University Press, Redmer Yska, Summer 2017
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Not the Wairarapa? Shelagh Duckham Cox
Featherstone Kirsty Gunn Faber & Faber, $34.95, ISBN 0571212476 The epigraph is an entry in an imagined handbook. It provides information you’d expect from a motoring guide about a small town you’ve never visited before, and it’s in the same…
Tagged with: Faber & Faber, Issue 52, Kirsty Gunn, Shelagh Duckham Cox, Summer 2002
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
The haunt of guilty memory, Kim Worthington
In Touch Janette Sinclair Secker and Warburg, $24.95, ISBN 790004011 Does This Make Sense to You? Renée Penguin, $24.95, ISBN 0 14024946X Rain Kirsty Gunn Faber and Faber, $22.95, ISBN 0 571173004 The Strange Letter Z Debra Daley Penguin, $24.95,…
Tagged with: Debra Daley, Faber and Faber, Hodder and Stoughton, Issue 20, Janette Sinclair, Kim Worthington, Kirsty Gunn, Lindsey Dawson, Penguin Books, Renée, Rosie Scott, Secker and Warburg, Summer 1995, Tandem
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review