Book review: My Last Continent
This hot love story from an American author, set on a freezing continent, has touches of New Zealand occasionally. The setting is
This hot love story from an American author, set on a freezing continent, has touches of New Zealand occasionally. The setting is
Written six years ago, the Israeli writer's novel is a disquieting mix of apocalyptic and quotidian, incongruous career jealousies in a time of national blood-letting.
Justin Cronin's readers can't easily put him down, writes Dionne Christian.
Danyl, the protagonist, is back after a six-month absence caused by a misunderstanding with the justice system.
On a chilly, rainy day, it's tempting to escape to the baking heat of Australia.
It sounds almost too extraordinary to be true: a Kiwi advertising executive makes a pilgrimage across the byways of China, where tourists are rarely seen, and tracks down a long lost son of Mao Tse Tung.
Jennifer Dann meets an author whose book is inspired by violence but defined by humanity.
Christchurch-based writer Heather McQuillan is the winner of this year's National Flash Fiction Day competition.
Elizabeth is a husk of a woman. She feels nothing. Why she continues to live baffles her.
Noah is a 4-year-old boy who often wakes screaming from nightmares in which he plays with guns and is held underwater until he blacks out.
When I found myself counting the words in sentences rather than actually absorbing them, I realised it was time to give up on the book.
What a phenomenon James McNeish is. Literary fashions, figures and feuds parade past and all the while McNeish is working steadily and skilfully away.
Zhang's bleakly lyrical first YA novel brought a cascade of admirers and superlatives; now comes this intricate narrative of adolescents in all their vulnerability, idealism and savagery.
From the sure hand of historian Joan Norlev Taylor comes the tricky manoeuvre of binding fact and fiction into a convincing historical novel.
"Plots set in the future are about what people fear in the present," says one of Lionel Shriver's characters in her latest novel set in a dystopian America of the near future.
Ian McGuire's story of brutality, greed and whaling - set aboard a boat off the coast of Greenland - is worth seeking out, especially for those of you who are not squeamish.
"Nothing moves forward in a story except through conflict," writes Robert McKee of Story Seminar fame.
Paul Theroux is one of the great travel writers because he makes you eager to visit where he writes about, even when he sharply gets what's wrong with it.