VUP INTERNATIONAL FICTION

The Swing Around BARBARA ANDERSON

Barbara Anderson's funniest novel to date. The Minister of Cultural Links and Trade's Swing Around of New Zealand's Asian friends and neighbours should be a routine affair, but his wife Molly doesn't like shopping, his aides Freddy and Violet are consumed by their personal affairs…and lurking on the horizon is the shadowy terrorist group Lightning Storm.

‘Barbara Anderson is a born writer.’—Nick Hornby $29.95

Black Oxen ELIZABETH KNOX

‘Complex without being complicated,Black Oxen possesses a pure and whole-hearted intelligence. As in The Vintner's Luck, Knox demonstrated an imagination that is both vast and relentless in its pursuit of the truth. This is a world with four dimensions and six senses. Any leap of faith it might require is more than worth taking.’—Sarah May, Guardian

‘An unforgettable, thought-provoking, and intensely satisfying novel that, once finished, not only lets you see the world in a different light, but leaves other works in the shade.’—Steve Scott,Christchurch Press

‘Knox bothers her readers with tenderness, suspense and glittering webs of meaning, but rewards, in the round, with a superb piece of narrative therapy.’—James Urquhart, Independent $29.95

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