Tag: Kiwi lit

2021 NZ Book Awards

Posted on May 25, 2021 by

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Suzy: “All four books seemed completely deserving of their place on the shortlist. While I would have thought the judges may have leaned more towards Nothing to See I am not mad at all about Bug Week winning. There are flashes from the various Bug Week stories that still sit… Continue Reading “2021 NZ Book Awards”

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Remote Sympathy – Catherine Chidgey

Posted on May 20, 2021 by

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Read for NZ Book Awards An inmate at Buchenwald concentration camp aids the commandant who is trying to save his wife’s life ⫸ “Remote Sympathy tells the stories of several people and families who all have one thing in common: the Buchenwald concentration camp… Continue Reading “Remote Sympathy – Catherine Chidgey”

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Bug Week And Other Stories – Airini Beautrais

Posted on May 15, 2021 by

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Read for NZ Book Awards From 1960s Wellington to post-Communist Germany, Bug Week is a collection of short stories that traverses the weird, the wry and the grotesque fragments of people’s lives. There are bug collectors, necrophiliacs, an albatross at an open mic night,… Continue Reading “Bug Week And Other Stories – Airini Beautrais”

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Sprigs – Brannavan Gnanalingam

Posted on May 10, 2021 by

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Read for NZ Book Awards A brutal story of rugby, rape and toxic masculinity. ⫸ “After a Wellington School’s revered rugby final, a 15-year-old year is gang raped at the after party. We are then made privvy to the thoughts, actions and emotions of… Continue Reading “Sprigs – Brannavan Gnanalingam”

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Nothing To See – Pip Adam

Posted on May 5, 2021 by

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Read for NZ Book Awards The lives of friends Peggy and Greta are detailed in three different decades in this book. In 1994 they are aged 24 and breaking free of alcohol and a traumatic past; in 2006 they have jobs and are coping… Continue Reading “Nothing To See – Pip Adam”

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The Swimmers – Chloe Lane

Posted on April 12, 2021 by

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READ FOR NZ BOOK AWARDS Twenty six year old Erin is at the bach visiting her mum who has motor neurone disease, only to be informed her mother wishes to take her death into her own hands. Erin has walked away from a job… Continue Reading “The Swimmers – Chloe Lane”

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Toto Amongst The Murderers – Sally J Morgan

Posted on April 4, 2021 by

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READ FOR NZ BOOK AWARDS ● In the 1970s, at age 21, Sally J Morgan was hitchhiking in Yorkshire and was offered a lift by Fred and Rosemary West. This close call inspired her novel Toto Amongst The Murderers, in which the protagonist, Toto, is… Continue Reading “Toto Amongst The Murderers – Sally J Morgan”

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Auē – Becky Manawatu

Posted on May 5, 2020 by

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READ FOR NZ BOOK AWARDS Auē is about the struggles to escape a life of violence, told through the experiences of brothers Taukiri, 17 and Arama, 8. Tauriki decides to undertake a quest to locate his birth mother. Responsible for Ārama, he entrusts the… Continue Reading “Auē – Becky Manawatu”

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Pearly Gates – Owen Marshall

Posted on April 28, 2020 by

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READ FOR NZ BOOK AWARDS The mayor of a small NZ town recalls his successes and failures in the lead up to an election and school reunion. ✚ “Pearly was such a recognisable character it was disarming. We all know a Pearly – a… Continue Reading “Pearly Gates – Owen Marshall”

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Halibut On The Moon – David Vann

Posted on April 20, 2020 by

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READ FOR NZ BOOK AWARDS A suicidal man visits his family in California before deciding his fate. ✚ “My previous experience of David Vann was of the book Goat Mountain, which both freaked me out and captivated me. I wanted to recommend it to… Continue Reading “Halibut On The Moon – David Vann”

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