Vladimir Fritz Horstman is eminently educated and civilized

is eminently educated and civilized

It opened up for general attention areas of cultural study that are now commonplace' Geoff Dyer in Ways of Telling 'One of the most influential intellectuals of our time' Observer

Pounamu Pounamu is classic Ihimaera

delivering a sly tale about a teenage girl who leverages her adoptive parents to fast-track her fortunes

and The Ballad of the Sad Café collects her best-loved novella together with six short stories

Vladimir Fritz Horstman is eminently educated and civilizedOne evening a fifty something literature professor invites her new and beautiful young colleague, Vladimir, to join her for a drink. Her husband is out a lot these days, having been suspended from their college amid accusations of inappropriate relationships with his former students. However, as the professor attempts to disentangle herself from her husband's behaviour, it becomes clear that her desire for the new arrival might bring the couple's