Rose Tremain won the Orange Broadband Prize for women’s fiction last night with The Road Home, a topical novel about an Eastern European immigrant.
Tremain, 64, had been shortlisted four years ago but the British author has never won any of the top three literary prizes the Booker, the Costa and the Orange despite being a [...]
New Zealand is a small western democracy, located in the far south of the South Pacific. In strategic terms it is, as former Prime Minister David Lange once quipped, a dagger pointed at the heart of Antarctica.
Our nearest neighbours are close to 1200 miles away, or as far away as Moscow from London. Our [...]
The suck, draw and crash of wild surf is one of the surest cures for life-rage I know.
And there’s no coastline quite like that of the west of the South Island for putting things into perspective %26#8211 both visually and philosophically.
Where the Tasman Sea charges the land below Charleston, about 20 minutes south of Westport, [...]