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Monthly Archives: September 2017
Jarulan by the River by Lily Woodhouse – 2017
Jarulan is a crumbling mansion on a sprawling property in rural New South Wales, and Jarulan is a sprawling saga sporadically following the Jarulan residents from before the First World War to the present. Much of the physical character of … Continue reading
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The Suicide Club by Sarah Quigley – 2017
Three young people, one mistakenly named, two self-named, have all experienced childhood trauma. As a result they feel abandoned, are haunted by horrific memories, or experience hyper-sensitivity due to early injuries. All three are extremely gifted: either with beauty, with … Continue reading
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The Sound of Her Voice by Nathan Blackwell – 2017
Matt Buchanan has worked on a series of horrific crimes spanning decades in an Auckland where it is always raining, and years on he is still haunted by his earliest case, the still unsolved disappearance of a school girl, Samantha. … Continue reading
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Aukati by Michalia Arathimos – 2017
What I loved about this book was its uncompromising life-like messiness; things don’t go as planned, there are long periods in the doldrums, sex is sometimes not that great, something happens and suddenly one of the characters finds himself in … Continue reading
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Tess by Kirsten McDougall – 2017
A middle-aged man with a rifle in his car decides to pick up a young woman on the highway. He is just wanting to help; she is about the same age as his estranged daughter. The young woman sees accepting … Continue reading
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The Scene of the Crime by Steve Braunias – 2015
WELCOME TO THE NGAIO MARSH AWARDS BLOG TOUR 2017 There is an inevitable melange of fiction and reality that arises from piecing together ‘what happened’ in a crime: “a trial is always going to take on the literary form of … Continue reading
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