Booker number two?

Lloyd JonesMister Pip has made the Man Booker Prize longlist, alongside works by Ian McEwan and A N Wilson. The 13 titles were selected from over 100 international entries. “As for the eventual winner, the smart money will, inevitably, fly to McEwan’s On Chesil Beach,” writes Guardian critic DJ Taylor. “I shall be backing the New Zealand writer Lloyd Jones’s Mr Pip, a devastating projection of Great Expectations set on a war-torn Pacific island.” Keri Hulme is the first and only NZ author to win the prestigious prize, for The Bone People in 1985. The shortlist will be announced September 6.


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Amy Brown’s New Novel Inspired by Women and Art

Amy Brown’s New Novel Inspired by Women and Art

Like many writers before her, New Zealand-born Amy Brown takes inspiration from the Australian feminist icon Stella Maria Miles Franklin in her captivating debut novel My Brilliant Sister – but instead…