Category Archives: Non-Fiction

Literary News and Bookish Potpourri — April 28, 2013

Posted on April 28, 2013 by

Awards and Honours The Orphan Master’s Son Wins Pulitzer for Fiction Huo Yan wins NZ’s Rewi Alley Writing Fellowship CBCA 2013 Book of the Year Awards Craig Childs Wins 2013 Orion Book Award Carrie Tiffany Wins Stella Prize for Women … Continue reading →

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February 2013 New Titles Newsletter

Posted on February 28, 2013 by

Fiction & Anthology The Last Runaway      by Tracy Chevalier, HarperCollins, HB, $39.99 Bristol port, 1850: Honor and Grace Bright walk up the gangplank to embark on a voyage across the Atlantic, join Grace’s fiancé and start a new life … Continue reading →

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A David Foster Wallace Hyperlink Compendium

Posted on November 4, 2012 by

Since first hearing about D. T. Max’s new biography of David Foster Wallace, Every Love Story is a Ghost Story (Granta Books, HB $49.99), as well as detecting non-specific references to Wallace in Josh Radnor’s lit-rich film “Liberal Arts” at this year’s International … Continue reading →

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New NZ Titles and New Young Adult Lit

Posted on August 21, 2012 by

  New NZ Titles Poenamo Revisited      by Russell Stone, HB, $45.00 Sir John Logan Campbell came to New Zealand in 1840 at the age of 23 and went on to become one of the country’s wealthiest and most influential … Continue reading →

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New March Non-Fiction

Posted on March 12, 2012 by

(all general books are sent freight free within NZ) Wellington Literary Happenstance & New Books Writers & Readers: The next week is rich in books and authors with the Writer & Readers Festival having kicked off on the 9th, there … Continue reading →

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Book Launch: Observations by Russell Campbell

Posted on October 10, 2011 by

vicbooks is proud to be hosting Victoria University Press’ launch of Observations: Studies in NZ Documentary by Russell Campbell. As New Zealanders we have varied and conflicting ideas of who we are, some of the most striking of these come … Continue reading →

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Thanksgiving

Posted on November 26, 2010 by

In the accent-less world of textual communication, where the addition of the occasional (possibly unnecessary) “u” to certain words acts as verbal camouflage, you might never know that I am American.  But, there it is.  As an American abroad I … Continue reading →

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