By Elizabeth Alley in Books
Issue 3810 10th May 2013
Novelist Anita Desai says she writes without any sense of an audience, but she is likely to find an enthusiastic one at this week’s Auckland Writers & Readers Festival.
By Elizabeth Alley in Books
Issue 3803 21st Mar 2013
Blood-curdling events strike Princeton in Joyce Carol Oates’s gothic-surreal novel.
By Elizabeth Alley in Books
Issue 3779 13th Oct 2012
The five stories in Sebastian Faulks’s new “novel” don’t quite add up to a fully satisfying experience.
By Elizabeth Alley in Books
Issue 3760 2nd Jun 2012
Richard Ford’s sinuous prose is at its most luminous in the bleak environment of Canada.
By Elizabeth Alley in Books
Issue 3746 25th Feb 2012
Sarah Shieff’s Letters of Frank Sargeson offers an intimacy and insight that capture the writer in a way even Michael King’s biography couldn’t.
By Elizabeth Alley in Books
Issue 3733 26th Nov 2011
Barry Unsworth returns to the story of his 1993 Booker Prize winner, Sacred Hunger.
By Elizabeth Alley in Books
Issue 3723 15th Sep 2011
Kate Grenville revisits the Thornhill family.
By Elizabeth Alley in Books
Issue 3711 25th Jun 2011
The Larnachs is a sensitive, compassionate and discreet reworking of fact.
By Elizabeth Alley in Books
Issue 3709 11th Jun 2011
Elizabeth Smither’s “commonplace book” allows us a unique insight into the writer.
By Elizabeth Alley in Books
Issue 3644 13th Mar 2010
Literary biographer Ann Thwaite traces her New Zealand roots.