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KEVIN JARED HOSEIN Hungry Ghosts. Reviewed by Ann Skea

KEVIN JARED HOSEIN Hungry Ghosts. Reviewed by Ann Skea

by NRB | 24 Apr 2024 | Fiction | 0 comments

Kevin Jared Hosein’s debut novel is both a mystery story and a window into the lives of Caribbean indentured labourers and their families. The place is Trinidad, ‘sometime in the 1940s’.  Four boys ventured to the river bank to perform a blood oath. Two brothers...
DOMINIC HOEY Poor People with Money. Reviewed by Karen Chisholm

DOMINIC HOEY Poor People with Money. Reviewed by Karen Chisholm

by NRB | 19 Sep 2023 | Crime Scene, Fiction | 0 comments

Fast paced, heart-wrenching, darkly comic, Dominic Hoey’s new crime novel is dark and unrelenting. Do you remember when I was a hero, Eddy? Back when everyone thought I saved you, before my face looked like a broken dinner plate. Mt Albert girl, 15, rescues brother...
LOUSE ERDRICH The Sentence. Reviewed by Robert Goodman

LOUSE ERDRICH The Sentence. Reviewed by Robert Goodman

by NRB | 27 Jan 2022 | Fiction | 0 comments

The new novel from Pulitzer-winner Louise Erdrich is both a story for our times and a loving tribute to bookshops. Two years on and the pandemic is starting to colonise literature. Louise Erdrich’s latest book The Sentence feels like it started as one thing and was...
             

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