Quentin Wilson Publishing

02/05/2025

Available from good booksellers, or postage-free from QWP, and now also as an eBook on Amazon.

Landfall Review Online May Reviews 🌟

Gill South reviews:

The Pets We Have Killed by Barbara Else (Quentin Wilson Publishing)
https://landfallreview.com/the-gender-divide/

09/04/2025

Another excellent review. Postage free from https://quentinwilsonpublishing.com/product/table-talk-opinions-stories-and-a-play/

The 'sharp and unforgiving eye' of an acclaimed writer and scholar with a reputation for 'bullish contrariness'.

13/01/2025

From the author of the Ngaio Marsh Awards longlisted novel, DOUBLE JEOPARDY, Stef Harris's two novellas under the title THE GIRL FROM SARAJEVO. Dark and funny at once, both stories focus on strong women who face life's challenges in ways that will resonate with female readers. PRE-ORDER here now with free postage and payment on publication – 1 March 2025. https://quentinwilsonpublishing.com/product/the-girl-from-sarajevo/

12/12/2024

On the ANZRB today: A 'masterful collection that examines how humans treat one another in inhumane ways' - Di Starrenburg reviews THE PETS WE HAVE KILLED by Barbara Else.

A 'masterful collection that examines how humans treat one another in inhumane ways'.

10/12/2024

Barbara Else (right) at the Quentin Wilson Publishing launch by Rachel Scott (left) at UBS Otago of Barbara's fabulous short story collection for adult readers, THE PETS WE HAVE KILLED, 10 December 2024. A great Christmas present to yourself or a friend – from a good bookstore near you now.

06/12/2024

The ageing Interislander ferries must be replaced. We believe it’s crucial that new ferries are rail-enabled and publicly owned, letting rail freight and equipment move easily between the North and South Islands. Without rail-enabled ferries, the two islands’ rail networks will be disconnected, ...

03/12/2024

And the reviews are coming thick and fast at just the right time. Here below from Anna Scaife in KETE... Available from good bookstores and postage-free from https://quentinwilsonpublishing.com/product/the-pets-we-have-killed/

Accomplished storyteller Barbara Else has a wide-ranging body of work. Anna Scaife considers how the attention-grabbing title reflects this collection of short fiction. ...

03/12/2024

Barbara Else is a best-selling writer in many genres. She was made a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to literature in 2005 and holds the Margaret Mahy Medal for services to children’s literature. She was the Writing Fellow at Victoria University of Wellington Te Herenga Waka ...

26/11/2024

'While he has already written or edited over fifty books, there is no sitting on his laurels for this nonagenarian... CK Stead returns with a fascinating, eclectic collection of essays, blogs, short fiction, a translation of a play by Racine and more.'
TABLE TALK, published by Quentin Wilson Publishing, is the latest from poet, fiction writer, critic, essayist, teacher and academic CK Stead.
📖 Read an extract on Kete: https://www.ketebooks.co.nz/en/essays/extract-table-talk-opinions-stories-and-a-play-by-c-k-stead
Quentin Wilson Publishing

05/11/2024

CHEW THE BRIGHT HYSTERIA is available from good bookstores and from the publisher at https://quentinwilsonpublishing.com/product/chew-the-bright-hysteria-poetry-paintings/

LRO NOVEMBER 🌟📚

'Grief Momentarily Suspended' – Genevieve Scanlan reviews: Meantime by Majella Cullinane (Otago University Press), Tidelines by Kiri Piahana-Wong (Anahera Press) and Chew the Bright Hysteria by Rhondda Greig (Quentin Wilson Publishing)
https://landfallreview.com/grief-momentarily-suspended/

26/10/2024

THE PETS WE HAVE KILLED by Barbara Else publishes 25 November 2024 and will be launched by Rachel Scott at UBS Otago on Wednesday, 28 November. All welcome. Pre-order now from all good booksellers or postage-free from https://quentinwilsonpublishing.com/.../the-pets-we-have.../