Set in New Zealand at the beginning of the nineteenth century, Tapu is the fictionalised account of Jane Kendall, wife of the hapless missionary Thomas Kendall who sails to New Zealand with the intention of converting the heathen but who becomes converted himself by their culture, their language and...
Mortmain focuses on the lives and families of three men who meet regularly to play chess in a small town in New Zealand between the wars: Edward Wilson, the local lawyer, troubled my financial and sexual worries; Euclid Wrench, the younger son of an earl, a man so obsessed with the classical world t...
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