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Book Review: <i>Last Night in Twisted River</i>
John Irving is the king of the long, multilayered novel. In the tradition of Dickens, he cleverly weaves together the intricate threads of cross-generational storylines.
John Irving is the king of the long, multilayered novel. In the tradition of Dickens, he cleverly weaves together the intricate threads of cross-generational storylines.
There's the boy who kills sheep and gouges out their eyes. There's the young man who wishes literally to eat his girlfriend but who angrily denies he is a Hannibal Lecter figure.
This intermittently charming animated offering from Disney relocates Shakespeare's famous love story to the secret world of garden gnomes, then adds Elton John music.
Paul Torday produces an intriguing page-turner that won't fail to surprise.
Prepare to be outraged by this political drama, based on the autobiography of outed CIA agent Valerie Plame.
Mayfield was just a teenager when a copy of an album she'd recorded in her bedroom fell into the hands of Dan Auerbach from The Black Keys.
This work of speculative fiction arrives on New Zealand shelves with the degree of hype usually reserved for angst-ridden teen vamps or boy wizards.
Rating: 3.5/5. Verdict: Still dour, but more diverse second offering from London trio
Rating: 4/5. Verdict: Folk fellow finds the funk on his fifth.
Rating: 4/5. Verdict: Get down with the coolest grandma.
Fela Kuti was a revolutionary and a rogue. And man, could the Nigerian musician and pioneer of Afro-beat sing, dance and play saxophone.
Director Danny Boyle goes from a cast of many with Slumdog Millionaire to pretty much a cast of one, in an intense tale of survival that takes the saying "I'd give my right arm ..." to a new level.
Jeff Bridges' Cogburn retains the Wayne eyepatch and the girth but he's not up for the carbine twirl.
With so much of Auckland's attention focused on Monday's Laneway Festival, it was always going to be interesting to see how Les Savy Fav's first New Zealand show was going to go.
After an interregnum of six years following the "retirement" of Justin Paton (the quotation marks are an intriguing addition by the publisher) in 2004, during which "guest editors" steered the ship, Landfall has a permanent editor again.
You'd be a fool to buy into the argument that Adele Adkins is just another packaged Brit School graduate with a great set of lungs.
The highly charged electro-pop that's pumped out by Fenech-Soler is relatively unknown here, but in the band's British homeland it's a floor-filling festival favourite.
Enough to make you spew Not even Kiwi talent can save the Oz "event" movie that is Panic at Rock Island, says Deborah Hill Cone.
Even though 2011 is still new, I suspect this debut novel from US author Susan Henderson will be one of my standout reads of the year.
Rhoda Janzen's memoir may be light on laughs, but it's heavy on affection.
Rating: 4/5. Verdict: The old gang is back, and conjuring up their very best in a new way