Former leading New Zealand publisher and bookseller, and widely experienced judge of both the Commonwealth Writers Prize and the Montana New Zealand Book Awards, talks about what he is currently reading, what impresses him and what doesn't, along with chat about the international English language book scene, and links to sites of interest to booklovers.
Monday, March 24, 2014
Books at the Sydney Morning Herald
Zoe Foster: big change - no change
KAREN HARDY Becoming a mum won't keep Zoe the writer out of the single girl arena.
Reviews by Thuy On On the shelf this week: The Train to Paris, Girl's Own Survival Guide, Did She Kill Him? and more.
Jaspreet Singh was born in India, lives in Canada and is a former research scientist. His second novel, Helium, is published by Bloomsbury.
Andrew Riemer The creative energy that drove E. M. Forster to produce four notable novels within a few years stalled after the success in 1910 of Howards End, that fine book about the world of ''telegrams and anger''. Forster could get nowhere with a novel provisionally entitled Arctic Summer - about 80 pages of a sketch have survived, published long after his death. Moreover, the idea for a ''book about India'' remained no more than an idea for many years. The drought broke in 1924, when the long-projected novel about India emerged as A Passage to India, Forster's greatest achievement and the last novel published in his lifetime. He died in 1970.
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