Blogs in February 2014

Survivor 21st February 2014

It is 1938 and Mariette Carrera is a defiant, strong-willed and selfish eighteen-year-old. And sooner or later, if she stays in the small, gossipy town of Russell, New Zealand, she’ll get herself into some serious trouble. Her doting parents,...

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Vintage Murder 1st January 1970

A touring theatre company in New Zealand forms the basis of one of Marsh’s most ambitious and innovative novels. New Zealand theatrical manager Alfred Meyer wanted to celebrate his wife’s birthday in style. The piece de résistance would be...

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The Colour 1st January 1970

This is a powerful drama of greed and aspiration set in the New Zealand Gold Rush of the mid-19th Century. Tremain’s protagonists are Harriet and Joseph Baxter, who (along with Joseph’s mother) leave England for the promise of the...

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Close to the Wind 1st January 1970

Georgiana da Silva is catapulted out of the Victorian drawing rooms and into a world of danger when she escapes her fiendish fiance to engage in a mad dash across the world to save her brother before an unknown...

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Slipping into Paradise 1st January 1970

In the tradition of Under the Tuscan Sun and A Year in Provence, here is Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson’s ode to his personal paradise-his adopted home, New Zealand. After living in California, why did Masson settle- out of all the...

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