For the old salts: How to Sail a Boat, by Matt Vance
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Issue 3815 13th Jun 2013
When Vance introduces the personal stuff, it really picks up its skirts and skips along.
By John McCrystal in Books
Issue 3815 13th Jun 2013
When Vance introduces the personal stuff, it really picks up its skirts and skips along.
By John McCrystal in Books
Issue 3811 16th May 2013
Stevan Eldred-Grigg brings his fictional family through the 1960s and onward.
By John McCrystal in Books
Issue 3809 2nd May 2013
This is a brave subject for a woman to tackle from a male first-person perspective, writes reviewer John McCrystal.
By John McCrystal in Books
Issue 3783 2nd Nov 2012
John Sinclair explains the background to his revolutionary China-set debut novel, this month’s Listener Book Club choice.
By John McCrystal in Books
Issue 3780 20th Oct 2012
CK Stead takes masterful aim at the moral bankruptcy of the times.
By John McCrystal in Travel
Issue 3779 13th Oct 2012
What simple pleasure can be had thrashing someone else’s car around in the snow and ice.
By John McCrystal in Books
Issue 3766 14th Jul 2012
You’ll go a long way before you find a collection of stories that so engage, tease, taunt and thrill your intelligence as these, says John McCrystal.
By John McCrystal in Books
Issue 3734 5th Jul 2012
Paula Morris’s rangatira is a triumph of characterisation in this adroitly told historical novel.
By John McCrystal in Books
Issue 3757 12th May 2012
Stephanie Johnson’s great-great-great-grandmother is the subject her career has been waiting for.