Tag Archives: Fiction

A Visit From the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
Fiction
April 26, 2011 posted by Unity Auckland

A Visit From the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan

A Visit From the Goon Squad Jennifer Egan, Corsair ($25) Check out this great review from The Guardian as reviewed by Sarah Churchwell: The title of Jennifer Egan’s new novel…

Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis
Fiction
March 10, 2011 posted by Unity Auckland

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…

At the Mountains of Madness by HP Lovecraft
Fiction
February 4, 2011 posted by Unity Wellington

At the Mountains of Madness by HP Lovecraft

If you don’t know about Lovecraft’s genre of Cosmic Horror then here is an unfairly-short three-sentence synopsis. Having been witness to the atrocities and senselessness of World War One, atrocities…

Crossers by Philip Caputo
Fiction
November 30, 2010 posted by Unity Auckland

Crossers by Philip Caputo

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…

Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
Fiction
August 27, 2010 posted by Unity Wellington

Freedom by Jonathan Franzen

Freedom Jonathan Franzen, Fourth Estate ($30) Jonathan Franzen’s new novel Freedom may present problems for those that suffer from literary anxiety. The Corrections, his previous novel, was hailed as the…