Fee reads Pip Adam's Ockham shortlisted novel, "an incredible adventure into the mind, which will mess with your head".
The Mermaid of Black Conch – winner of the Costa Novel Award
Fee reads the Costa book of the year - a mix of humour, poignancy, and magic that brings new life to the mermaid myth in a vibrant Caribbean setting to immerse yourself in.
Steve Braunias’ Missing Persons: legal lampoons, flimsy forensics and distressing disappearances
Fee reviews the latest true crime title from New Zealand writer, Steve Braunias and finds it a riveting read.
Costa prize for first novel – Love After Love by Ingrid Persaud
Fee reviews the Costa best first novel winner and finds a multi-faceted story that "mystified, moved, and made me laugh".
The Adventures of China Iron or: What I didn’t do in my holidays!
Fee reviews "...a kind of Thelma and Louise meets Herland... a marvellous and quite sexually-charged adventure across the pampas of Argentina, circa 1872."
Big girl, small town… big laughs
Fee reads an award nominated novel set in Northern Ireland. She finds it "an absolute hoot" (and learns lots of Irish words for "drunk").
Shuggie Bain takes out the Booker Prize!
Intense, heartfelt and complicated, Shuggie Bain illustrates that there is always love for a parent, no matter how flawed.
Last few WORDs: Interview with Fiona Farrell
In all the rush of WORD Christchurch Spring Festival, author Fiona Farrell found time to answer a few questions. This is remarkable since many of our contributing authors attended each other's events, and had more than one of their own. Fiona Farrell was part of the launch of her new book of poetry Nouns, Verbs…
Bill Manhire Wows the Crowds at WORD Christchurch
Bill Manhire wowed a large audience at Tūranga with readings from his new book of poems, Wow! Wow The master spoke with John Campbell, who, it turns out, was a student in his class of American Letters at Auckland University. What a hoot. There are a lot of laughs and banter between the two, and…
Dear Katherine : Fellows write a letter to Katherine Mansfield – WORD Christchurch Spring Festival 2020
In the last-but-one event at the hugely successful WORD Christchurch Spring Festival, Bill Manhire, Carl Nixon, Fiona Farrell, Vincent O'Sullivan and Paula Morris shared their letters to our most beloved writer, to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship. All have been recipients of this funded stay in Menton, France, where Katherine…
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