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Brutal love, Rachael Imlay

Posted on June 10, 2016 by NZ Books

The Bone People Keri Hulme Picador, $25.00, ISBN 9780330485418 The Bone People (originally published in 1984) is a beautiful, complex, and astounding novel of healing, loss, and love. Keri Hulme utilises an unusual style; switching between viewpoints, first and third…

Tagged with: Issue 114, Keri Hulme, Picador, Rachael Imlay, Winter 2016
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review

The sadness of the incomplete, Elizabeth Caffin

Posted on October 28, 1998 by NZ Books

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…

Tagged with: Anne Kennedy, Elizabeth Caffin, Emily Perkins, Issue 35, Picador
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review

Time of energy and change, Howard Warner

Posted on March 17, 1996 by NZ Books

The Picador Book of Contemporary New Zealand Fiction Fergus Barrowman (ed) Picador $24.95 ISBN 0330 339966 From the Mainland: An Anthology of South Island Writing Lawrence Jones and Heather Murray (eds) Godwit $29.95 ISBN 0908877 501 Between the publishing histories…

Tagged with: Fergus Barrowman, Godwit, Heather Murray, Howard Warner, Issue 22, Lawrence Jones, Picador
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Short stories