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Being Chinese’ by Helene Wong                                                                             'The Wish Child' by Catherine Chidgey                                                                                                                                          
‘Questions of Travel’ by Michele de Kretser

‘Nothing to be frightened of’ by Julian Barnes

‘Bird Cloud’ by Annie Proulx

‘A Gate at the Stairs’ by Lorrie Moore

‘As the Earth turns Silver’ by Alison Wong

‘In Tearing Haste’ – letters between Deborah Devonshire & Patrick Leigh Fermor Edited by Charlotte Mosley

‘Just Kids’ by Patti Smith

‘Like Being a Wife’ by Catherine Harris

‘Lovesong’ by Alex Miller
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‘The Slap’ by Christos Tsiolkas

‘The Believers’ by Zoe Heller

Katherine Mansfield Symposium

‘Mansfield’ by C.K. Stead

‘Hokitika Town’ by Charlotte Randall

‘The Larnachs’ by Owen Marshall

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KATHERINE MANSFIELD
​There is no twilight in our New Zealand days, but a curious half-hour when everything appears grotesque  - it frightens - as though the savage spirit of the country walked abroad and sneered at what it saw.
'The Woman at the Store'  1912
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