FACTS, FANTASIES, FICTION

DAYS OF STARLIGHT by Craig Harrison

In the tradition of the fast-paced intelligent thriller, DAYS OF STARLIGHT builds and sustains a powerful momentum and reaches a startling revelation. By the author of THE QUIET EARTH.

$34.95 hardcover. $22.95 paperback.

AWFUL CHILDHOODS by Ann Macrae

A witty and perceptive tragi-comic tale of women's lives in low-income urban New Zealand of the 1980s. Despair constantly alternates with comedy in this powerful novel from a prize-winning writer.

$32.95 har

SPLINTER by Lloyd Jones

What happens when a convicted vandal and failed entrepreneur attempts to discover meaning in his personal life? Lloyd Jones, well-known author of GILMORE'S DAIRY, has produced a tour de force full of raw buffoonery and wit.

$32.95 hardcover. $19.95 paperback.

ANNELIESE by Heather Marshall

A timeless, heartbreaking novel of a lonely adolescent girl growing up in New Zealand during World War II. Another of successful writer Heather Marshall's many novels which have been serialised by Radio New Zealand.

$34.95 hardcover.

Publishing February: EXPLOSIONS ON THE SUN
Short stories by Marilyn Duckworth
HODDER AND STOUGHTON

Yellow Pencils: Contemporary Poetry By New Zealand Women

$25.00
ed. Lydia Wevers
Major figures sit alongside newer poets in a collection that attempts to record and display the significant change in women's poetry in the last twenty years.

Poems of Katherine Mansfield $25.00
ed. Vincent O'Sullivan
The first selection of Mansfield's poetry since the 1920s shows her as an innovative poet and sheds new light on her talents as a writer.

Summer Near the Arctic Circle $15.95
Lauris Edmond
Poems of warmth, gentle humour, and an awareness of the impermanence of human existence in this latest work from one of New Zealand's most distinguished poets.

Published by Oxford University Press

SMALL TALK

P: So how do you reckon Benton Ross is doing these days?
R: Oh they're doing O.K. I think. Nigel Cox's DIRTY WORK is selling really well and "WAITING FOR EINSTEIN" is also picking up. Womens Press in U.K. have just published their edition of Lisa Greenwood's "THE ROUNDNESS OF EGGS". Iris Galey's "I COULDN'T CRY WHEN DADDY DIED" is top of the bestseller list in Switzerland and "WINKELMANN" won the N.Z. Book Awards for production.
P: Shit, that sounds pretty good.
R: Yeah; next year's publishing programme looks pretty good too.

Benton Ross Publishers Limited Private Bag, Takapuna.