Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis
Lunar Park Bret Easton Ellis, Picador ($30) Bret Easton Ellis’s latest novel, Lunar Park, is a tour de force of narcissism, says Adam Mars-Jones – taken from The Observer: Bret…
Lunar Park Bret Easton Ellis, Picador ($30) Bret Easton Ellis’s latest novel, Lunar Park, is a tour de force of narcissism, says Adam Mars-Jones – taken from The Observer: Bret…
Tim Wilson is the author of Their Faces Were Shining and is the foreign correspondent for TVNZ. Unity Books recently had the pleasure of launching the above novel to some…
Amexica Ed Vulliamy, Vintage ($30) “As dawn broke over the vast desert, the body was still hanging beneath the overpass, having been suspended from it – decapitated and dangling by…
Noelle McCarthy on fairytales, which poets speak to her and the lasting worthiness of Dracula and Jane Eyre. What book caused you to love reading? I don’t remember not reading….
Crossers Philip Caputo, Vintage ($33) Crossers is, initially, about a man, Gil Castle, who loses everything he loves in the wake of a terrorist plot so picturesque it will forever…
Their Faces Are Shining Tim Wilson, Victoria University Press ($30) When Hope Paterson plunges into a construction hole at her local mall and saves a child from drowning, she believes…
Just My Type: A Book About Fonts Simon Garfield, Profile Books ($30) An engaging Bill Bryson-esque history on everything from the Guardian’s April Fool’s day hoax on the islands of…
Which book caused you to love reading? No one book. I have been a compulsive reader from about the age of 10 or 11. And my tastes have been and…
Rachael King is an award-winning New Zealand writer and author of two books: Magpie Hall and The Sound of Butterflies. She talks here about Narnia as indeed a doorway and…