Fee reviews A song for a new day by Sarah Pinsker, one of the contenders in the SFWA Nebula Awards on this weekend.
Think your life has gone to custard? Danielle Hawkins’ hilarious guide to coping
Fee reviews the latest from Kiwi author Danielle Hawkins, in which things aren't going so well for farmer Jenny in small town NZ...
Ockham Awards 2020: Halibut on the Moon?
Fee reads the "dark horse" contender in the Acorn Prize for Fiction shortlist, from Alaskan-born author, David Vann.
Happy Birthday, Jack Kerouac!
Jack Kerouac was born on 12 March 1922 in Lowell, Massachusetts, Jack's family was French-Canadian. He immortalises his family in his 'Great American Novel' and arguably his best work (and first published), The Town and the City.
In conversation with Margaret Atwood
I'm going to a lot of great shows this year, but In Conversation With Margaret Atwood at the Christchurch Town Hall, has to have been one of the most exciting. This was my first time in Christchurch Town Hall, since it reopened after earthquake restoration in March 2019. It's a stunning venue. There were men…
Art on the Rooftop – Painting in Plein Air
Over three evenings in January, Auahatanga | Creativity, Level 4 held "Plein Air" art sessions, focused on showcasing the unique Ngā Māra / Roof gardens at Tūranga.
Patti Smith: Year of the Monkey
In Year of the Monkey, poet, writer, rock singer and artist Patti Smith writes beautiful prose with a dream-like quality; inspired by a stay at the Dream Inn. Year of the Monkey The National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids and M Train, Smith, approaching the age of seventy, assesses her life and the decline of some…
The Scandalous Life of Sasha Torte: Deliciously entertaining
Written as a tell-all diary of a woman framed for murder, The Scandalous Life of Sasha Torte is a tale of injustice, strength, love, revenge, and patisserie-making. Setting the tale in bawdy nineteenth century Wolfftown, a fictional port town in Tasmania, Lesley Truffle (her real name!) brings to life a town of "unconventional morals" where men are men and Gentlemen have double standards…
It was never just a man’s war: The Land Girls by Victoria Purman
If you loved reading or watching the British Land Girls' series, try this perspective from 'down under.' Told with real feeling, The Land Girls is the story of a group of young women who come together from all over Australia during World War Two to serve the war effort, in the Australian Women's Land Army…
I left my heart in Idaho
Mountain bluebird, fly away Appaloosa, spotted gray Western white pine, clothed in snow The mock orange blossoms in I-da-ho Idaho Emily Ruskovich's first novel, Idaho, took out The International DUBLIN Literary Award for 2019. Impressive - she was up against Sally Rooney and Matthias Enard (among others). Ruskovich has created a powerfully moving novel which…
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