Written on the Edge

Duncan Fallowell’s latest travel book Going As far As I Can about a trip to New Zealand, is a candid account of three months spent in the country in 2004. And though many New Zealanders have complained of his honesty, this  Guardian reviewer declares Fallowell’s anti-travel book, charming and elegant. “His matter-of-fact encounters include fleeing a gay hotel, sex cellars and financial transactions. Fallowell is constantly ambushed by variations of  Englishness, but the reiteration of being in God’s own country conveys the opposite as well: insularity and void.” The New Zealand Herald said the book “paints a scathing picture of the country.”