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The universe and everything, Philip Temple
Waimarino County and Other Excursions Martin Edmond Auckland University Press, $35.00, ISBN 9781869403911 Phone Home Berlin – Collected Non-fiction Nigel Cox Victoria University Press, $35.00, ISBN 9780864735676 The revival of the essay in book form continues compensating, to our applause,…
Tagged with: Issue 81, Martin Edmond, Nigel Cox, Philip Temple, Victoria University Press, Winter 2008
Posted in Essays, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Essays, Non-fiction, Review
Author as dinner companion, Sue McCauley
The Cowboy Dog Nigel Cox Victoria University Press, $29.95, ISBN 0864735448 The Fainter Damien Wilkins Victoria University Press, $29.95, ISBN 0864735308 In a way the titles say it all. It’s as if, in naming these novels (Cox’s sixth, Wilkins’ fifth),…
Tagged with: Damien Wilkins, Issue 78, Nigel Cox, Sue McCauley, Victoria University Press, Winter 2007
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Over there, Anna Rogers
Foreign City Charlotte Grimshaw Vintage, $36.95, ISBN 1869417275 Responsibility Nigel Cox Victoria University Press, $29.95, ISBN 0864734964 White Shadows: Memories of Marienbad Philip Temple Vintage, $27.95, ISBN 1869416996 I’m old enough to remember the days when a New Zealand novel…
Tagged with: Anna Rogers, Charlotte Grimshaw, Issue 70, Nigel Cox, Philip Temple, Victoria University Press, Vintage, Winter 2005
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Screen play, Martin Edmond
On River Road Chris Else Random, $26.95, ISBN 1869416236 Tarzan Presley Nigel Cox Victoria University Press, $29.95, ISBN 0864734808 Stench Mike Johnson Hazard Press, $24.95, ISBN 1877270687 Three books, all works of fiction, all by men who will not see…
Tagged with: Chris Else, Hazard Press, Issue 67, Martin Edmond, Mike Johnson, Nigel Cox, Random, Spring 2004, Victoria University Press
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
The freedom within, Nelson Wattie
Skylark Lounge Nigel Cox Victoria University Press, $29.95, ISBN 0864733925 In Nigel Cox’s second novel, Dirty Work, Nif, a woman rebelling against the controlling hand of Hendy, the master of her world, has a message tattooed on her back –…
Tagged with: Issue 47, March 2001, Nelson Wattie, Nigel Cox, Victoria University Press
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Who buys? Nigel Cox
Mountains of the South John Gordon and John Rundle, Random Century, $49.95 There was a time when big “glossies” were of real significance to the book trade. Large-format pictorials with high production values which showed beautiful New Zealand at its…
Tagged with: Issue 11, John Gordon, John Rundle, Nigel Cox, Random Century, Summer 1993
Posted in Art, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Art, Non-fiction, Review
Nigel Cox, Damien Wilkins
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