Eric Anderson reviews and writes about books on his blog Lonesome Reader. His review of The Life and Loves of Lena Gaunt appeared in January. I was thrilled that my novel reminded Eric of Anna Smaill’s The Chimes, a novel I love (see my best reads of 2015 post for Aardvark Bureau/Gallic Books). For [Lena], the rumblings of life … Read more…
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The Life and Loves of Lena Gaunt published in the UK
Though it’s been creeping into shops (online and bricks-and-mortar) for the past few weeks, and already gaining some glowing early online reviews, today – 9 January 2016 – marks the official UK publication date for The Life and Loves of Lena Gaunt (Aardvark Bureau). To celebrate, this is my virtual group hug to all involved, including but not … Read more…
Early reviews of Lena Gaunt ahead of UK publication
The official UK publication date of The Life and Loves of Lena Gaunt (Aardvark Bureau) is 9 January 2016, but – thanks largely to advance copies made available by Gallic Books for Aardvark Bureau via NetGalley – there’s been a steady stream of early reviews appearing on NetGalley, GoodReads and blogs. Thanks so much to everyone who’s … Read more…
‘You beauty: Tracy Farr’s best reads of 2015’ for Aardvark Bureau
Publisher Aardvark Bureau asked the authors of their first three titles for 2016 for their best reads of 2015: You’ll be hearing lots more about these fabulous writers in the new year, but for now, we’ve asked three of them to share their stand-out reads of 2015 – after all, what better way of getting to know someone than by … Read more…
Do you see what I see?
That two-day hangover was mine in real life. But…home for me, then, was Vancouver, not the New Zealand of the story. Our boozy real-life night ended up…at First Avenue, the Minneapolis nightclub made famous by Prince – the Purple One – and the setting of much of his 1984 film Purple Rain. Life fuels fiction; … Read more…
Lena Gaunt and other titles on Aardvark Bureau 2016 list
In his blog post ‘The Aardvark emerges’ [no longer available online], Scott Pack talks about the list of upcoming titles due from Aardvark Bureau in the first half of 2016. The Life and Loves of Lena Gaunt (January 2016) is joined on the list by novels from two much-loved Wellington authors: Fiona Kidman’s The Infinite Air (March … Read more…
‘true stories told live’ at Wellington LitCrawl 2015
Tracy Farr is on the programme for the second annual Wellington LitCrawl, on Saturday 14 November 2015, appearing in the ‘True Stories Told Live’ event supported by New Zealand Book Council. Celebrating independent publishing and collaboration, LitCrawl takes place at a range of downtown Wellington venues, from bookshops to chocolate factories, art galleries to bars, breweries, cinemas and … Read more…
NZ Book Council adds writer profile for Tracy Farr
The Read NZ Te Pou Muramura (formerly New Zealand Book Council) Writers Files represent the most comprehensive collection of information about New Zealand writers on the Internet In addition to entries reprinted from the Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, Read NZ adds pages for authors not currently featured in the Companion, and supplements Companion entries with new information. Up … Read more…
‘Aardvark author Tracy Farr on her debut novel’ interview
The Life and Loves of Lena Gaunt will be published in January 2016 by Aardvark Bureau. In this interview, Tracy Farr speaks about the inspiration behind her debut novel and its unforgettable main character, Lena Gaunt: musican, octogenarian, junkie. I have a complicated relationship with the sea…unlike Lena, I find the sea magnetic and sustaining from … Read more…
‘Odyssey: Tracy Farr in Mildura’ interview, rnz
Tracy Farr talks with Bryan Crump on RNZ Nights about her month in Mildura as the Mildura Writers Festival’s inaugural Writer in Residence. Listen to the interview: Listen online to ‘Odyssey: Tracy Farr in Mildura’ (RNZ Nights, 1 September 2015)