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| | | | | What an interesting book! It'sthe very clever and utterly absorbing story of seven rogue-adventurers, told in a picaresque way somewhat reminiscent of Candide(which I read a long, long time ago when I was at university).Making no apology for its scholarly allusions,it's a sort of philosophical travel novel which begins at the turn of the 18th... | |
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| | | | | The Ockham New Zealand 2025 Book Awards winners were announced at the Auckland Literary Festival today. The winning titles are: Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction (NZ$65,000) Delirious (Damien Wilkins, Te Herenga Waka University Press) (I've reserved this at the library.) Mary and Peter Biggs Award for Poetry (NZ$12,000) Liar, Liar, Lick, Spit (Emma Neale,... | |
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| | | | | Novellas in November is a good time to tackle some of the backlog of Aussie titles from the 20th century. The late Helen Hodgman (1945-2022) was a Tasmanian author of six highly regarded novels.Jack and Jill (1978) was her second novel (after Blue Skies, 1976, see my review) and it won the Somerset Maugham Award.... | |
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| | | Fiction - Kindle edition; Atlantic Books; 216 pages; 2011. The end of the year might be four months off, butThe Good Doctor by Damon Galgutis certainly going to be on my list of favourite reads for 2015. I read it over the course of a couple of days, but every time I put the book... | ||
