George Orwell married Eileen O’Shaughnessy nine years before his Animal Farm was published. When a book like Wifedom is written, the obvious becomes apparent; she played a huge part in his writing.
This quiet, bleak work by Israeli novelist Hila Blum won her country's Sapir Prize. It has been translated from the Hebrew, and this version retains the soulfulness of a mother and daughter relationship damaged beyond repair.
Mike Houlahan looks back at how the ODT reacted to significant events. Today, he looks at the eventual publication of D.H. Lawrence’s scandalous novel Lady Chatterley’s Lover.
The scenery about the lovely harbour of Otago is somewhat similar to that of the West Highlands of Scotland, but to an enthusiastic New Zealander it is much more beautiful.
American science fiction writer Michael Bishop was part of the new wave of science fiction writers in the 1970s who wanted to eschew the pulp fiction past of their genre and become mainstream authors.