WELLINGTON REPORT FROM THE BOOKMAN
The Bookman is in the capital for the opening night of the Wellington season of the NBR NZ Opera Company’s production of Tchaikovsky’s opera Eugene Onegin as I was unable to see the opera in Auckland.
Reading the weekend of the Dominion Post this morning I must say I was pleasantly surprised at the amount of book review coverage. For starters, and most impressively, there was a two page spread on DICK FRIZZELL:THE PAINTER,(Random House), launched in Auckland last Thursday evening with a Wellington launch to follow this Monday. Diana Decker’s review includes an impressive eight images from the book and a photograph of the artist.
Then there was a two page story on writer promising poet Amy Brown a graduate of Victoria University’s creative writing programme who now lives in Melbourne, Mike Crean in conversation with Christchurch novelist Joanna Orwin about her new novel COLLISION, (Harper Collins), followed by mini-reviews of eight titles as varied as J.M.Coetzee’s
The Bookman is in the capital for the opening night of the Wellington season of the NBR NZ Opera Company’s production of Tchaikovsky’s opera Eugene Onegin as I was unable to see the opera in Auckland.
Reading the weekend of the Dominion Post this morning I must say I was pleasantly surprised at the amount of book review coverage. For starters, and most impressively, there was a two page spread on DICK FRIZZELL:THE PAINTER,(Random House), launched in Auckland last Thursday evening with a Wellington launch to follow this Monday. Diana Decker’s review includes an impressive eight images from the book and a photograph of the artist.
Then there was a two page story on writer promising poet Amy Brown a graduate of Victoria University’s creative writing programme who now lives in Melbourne, Mike Crean in conversation with Christchurch novelist Joanna Orwin about her new novel COLLISION, (Harper Collins), followed by mini-reviews of eight titles as varied as J.M.Coetzee’s
SUMMERTIME, (Havill Secker), VENICE.PURE CITY (Chatto & Windus), Patricia’s Grace’s NED & KATINA: A TRUE LOVE STORY,(Penguin), and THE PEOPLE’S TRAIN ,(Vintage), by Thomas Keneally.
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