Monthly Archives: February 2025

Fox Spirit on a Distant Cloud by Lee Murray – 2024

Posted on February 19, 2025 by alysonebaker

“You will give these women voice and nourish them with hope … You will give them flesh and make them real” – Lee Murray, a “New Zealand-born Chinese Pākehā”, tells nine tales of women of the Chinese diaspora, women who … Continue reading →

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At the Grand Glacier Hotel by Laurence Fearnley – 2024

Posted on February 8, 2025 by alysonebaker

“‘It’s a funny old world, eh?’ I said after a second sip. ‘It’s pretty random,’ said James.” Libby is back at the Grand Glacier Hotel, on the West Coast, Aotearoa. Twenty years earlier she and her husband, Curtis, had promised … Continue reading →

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