Pattrick wins Mansfield Prize20 November, 2008The 2009 New Zealand Post Mansfield Prize has gone to Jenny Pattrick.
Jones, Oliver and Smither win NZ PM's awards8 October, 2008The winners of this year's New Zealand Prime Minister's Awards for Literary Achievement have been announced.
Living in Maniototo by Janet Frame3 March, 2008Nothing in this story is what is seems. Mavis Furness, Mavis Barwell, Mavis Halleton, a woman who has buried two husbands (which, she believes, entitles her to special attention in neighbourly conversations at the bus-stop) is also Alice Thumb or Aurelia Lokinia, or Maui's sister...or, even, Violet Pansy Proudlock, ventriloquist.