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Fiona Kidman


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Anthology
A good handful: great New Zealand poems about sex. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2008. Voyager link
Essential New Zealand short stories. Auckland: Random House, 2009.
New Zealand Love Stories: a New Zealand anthology. Auckland: Oxford University Press, 1999. Voyager link
Listener December 11 (1999): 38-38.
Sunday Star Times F; October 31 (1999): 2-2.
Evening Post November 19 (1999): 5-5.
North and South 166; Jan (2000): 106-110.
Dominion January 15 (2000): 20-20.
New Zealand Books 1.10; Mar (2000): 5-5.
The best New Zealand fiction. Volume 4. Auckland: Vintage, 2007. Voyager link
The best New Zealand fiction. Volume 5. Auckland: Vintage, 2008. Voyager link
The Best of New Zealand Fiction. Volume 2. Auckland: Vintage, 2005. Voyager link
The Cats Whiskers: New Zealand Writers on Cats. Auckland: Vintage, 2005. Voyager link
The mummers song. The Best of New Zealand Fiction. Volume 1. Auckland: Vintage, 2004. Voyager link
Dominion Post E; October 2 (2004): 11-11.
Press D; October 30 (2004): 15-15.
New Zealand Herald Sup.; October 9 (2004): 35-35.
New Zealand Books 3.15; Aug (2005): 15-15.
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Article
"Another side to the Minnitt trial." Dominion February 10 (2000): 8-8.
"Inside out." New Zealand Home and Building 6; Oct/Nov (1998): 177-178.
"Janet Frame in fact and fiction." Evening Post August 24 (1990): 9-9.
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Drama
Search for Sister Blue : a Play for Radio. Wellington, Reed 1975.
English in New Zealand Sept (1975): 43-43.
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Essay
"Bridget Williams Books." New Zealand Books 4.1; Mar (1992): 3-4.
Fiona Kidman. In: A Womans Life: writing by women about female experience in New Zealand. Auckland, Penguin Books 1989.
"In search of a character : researching The book of secrets." JNZL: Journal of New Zealand Literature 9; (1991): 10-14.
Introduction to Station Life in New Zealand by Lady Barker. London, Virago 1984.
"Katherine Mansfield : a painter with words. Fiona Kidman and others." Listener 2528.121; August 13 (1988): 22-33.
"Nova Scotia diary." Australian and New Zealand Studies in Canada 9; June (1993): 12-16.
"Response from Fiona Kidman." Listener November 30 (2002): 60-60.
"Scenes of the land." Critical Quarterly 2.34; Summer (1992): 47-47.
Speaking with my grandmothers. In: Writing Wellington: twenty years of Victoria University Writing Fellows. Wellington, Victoria University Press 1999.
"Waipu - a quite exceptional little town." North and South Aug (1986): 20-21.
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Interview
"Call her absolutely positively special." Dominion January 17 (1992): 7-7.
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Memoir
At the end of Darwin Road: a memoir. Auckland, Random House 2008. Voyager link
New Zealand Books 18.2; Winter (2008): 4-5.
Next April (2008): 105.
Landfall 216; Nov (2008): 185-188.
Listener 213.3543; April 5 (2008): 40.
Otago Daily Times March 8 (2008): 50.
"The Michele Hewitson interview: Fiona Kidman." New Zealand Herald February 23 (2008): A28.
Metro Auckland 321; May (2008): 119.
Press March 8 (2008): D12.
Otago Daily Times May 3 (2008): 53.
North and South 265; April (2008): 94-95.
Beside the dark pool. Auckland, Random House 2009. Voyager link
North and South 280; July (2009): 92-94.
Metro Auckland 335; Jul/Aug (2009): 116-118.
Sunday Star Times July 19 (2009): C7.
New Zealand Herald June 20 (2009): 30.
New Zealand Books 19.3; Spring (2009): 4.
Listener 219.3607; June 27 (2009): 39.
Otago Daily Times June 6 (2009): 45.
Dominion Post June 6 (2009): 18.
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Non Fiction
Gone North. Auckland: Heinemann, 1984. Voyager link
Listener 2327.108; September 15 (1984): 70-71.
New Zealand Woman's Weekly October 22 (1984): 140-140.
New Outlook 13; Nov/Dec (1984): 42-42.
Metro 42; Dec (1984): 133-133.
Palm Prints. Auckland: Vintage, 1994. Voyager link
New & Notable 2.12; May (1995): 9-30.
Listener September 24 (1994): 52-52.
Dominion October 1 (1994): 20-20.
Sunday Star Times D; October 2 (1994): 5-5.
Evening Post October 7 (1994): 7-7.
Quote Unquote 17; Nov (1994): 25-26.
North and South 104; Nov (1994): 166-171.
The Press Sup.; November 19 (1994): 14-14.
New Zealand Herald 3; November 12 (1994): 7-7.
Metro 162; Dec (1994): 178-180.
Landfall 189; Aug (1995): 139-141.
New Zealand Books 3.5; Aug (1995): 14-14.
"Revealing reading." Listener 117.2476; August 1 (1987): 59-60. Voyager link
Wellington. Auckland: Random House, 1989. Voyager link
Dominion November 18 (1989): 11-11.
Listener 2595.125; November 27 (1989): 126-126.
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Novel
A Breed of Women. Sydney: Harper & Row, 1979. Voyager link
TLS (Times Literary Supplement) March 13 (1981): 279-279.
Listener October 13 (1979): 76-76.
Landfall 34; Dec (1980): 362-365.
Landfall 34; Dec (1980): 365-367.
North and South July (1988): 142-143.
The Press Sup.; June 3 (1995): 14-14.
In the Clear Light. New York: Norton, 1985. Voyager link
Kirkus Reviews 53; February 15 (1985): 154-154.
Publishers Weekly 227; March 1 (1985): 69-69.
Best Sellers 45; July (1985): 127-127.
Book World Washington Post 16; September 14 (1986): 12-12.
Library Journal 110; May 1 (1985): 78-78.
New York Times Book Review 90; July 28 (1985): 18-18.
Mandarin Summer : a Novel. Auckland: Heinemann, 1981. Voyager link
New Zealand Woman's Weekly December 7 (1981): 110-110.
Listener 2198.100; February 6 (1982): 72-72.
Observer March 7 (1982): 32-32.
PSA Journal 2.69; Mar (1982): 20-20.
National Business Review November 4 (1988): 39-39.
Paddys Puzzle : a Novel. Auckland: Heinemann, 1983. Voyager link
Listener November 19 (1983): 98-99.
New Outlook 9; Mar/April (1984): 7-38.
Listener 2386.111; November 9 (1985): 64-64.
PSA Journal 11.70; Dec (1983): 14-14.
Ricochet Baby. Auckland: Vintage, 1996. Voyager link
Evening Post October 25 (1996): 5-5.
New Zealand Herald G; October 26 (1996): 6-7.
Dominion October 26 (1996): 20-20.
Sunday Star Times E; November 10 (1996): 6-6.
The Press Sup.; November 30 (1996): 14-14.
Metro 186; Dec (1996): 124-125.
North and South 130; Jan (1997): 114-120.
Otago Daily Times January 18 (1997): 22-22.
Listener February 22 (1997): 49-49.
New Zealand Books 1.7; Mar (1997): 1-4.
Quote Unquote 44; Mar (1997): 25-25.
Landfall 193; Autumn (1997): 166-169.
New & Notable 1.14; Mar (1997): 2-10.
Songs from the Violet Cafe : a novel. Auckland: Vintage, 2003. Voyager link
"From a cafe to Cambodia - and back." New Zealand Herald September 27 (2003): Supplement, p. 28.
The Book of Secrets. London Auckland: Heinemann, 1987. Voyager link
North and South Aug (1987): 116-116.
Metro 76; Oct (1987): 276-279.
Listener October 17 (1987): 68-68.
More 53; Nov (1987): 277-279.
British Book News Dec (1987): 840-840.
The Press Sup.; May 7 (1994): 10-10.
New Zealand Woman's Weekly January 25 (1988): 56-56.
Broadsheet 155; Jan/Feb (1988): 46-47.
TLS (Times Literary Supplement) 4427; February 5 (1988): 133-133.
Landfall 1.42; Mar (1988): 110-112.
World Literature Written in English 1.31; Spring (1991): 80-86.
National Business Review November 4 (1988): 39-39.
Otago Daily Times April 10 (1999): 65-65.
The Captive Wife. Auckland: Vintage, 2005. Voyager link
"RED : reading, entertainment, discussion." Booknotes 152; Summer (2005): 19-20.
Dominion Post E; July 30 (2005): 11-11.
Press D; August 6 (2005): 12-12.
New Zealand Herald Sup.; August 13 (2005): 34-34.
Listener August 13 (2005): 41-41.
The House Within. Auckland: Vintage, 1997. Voyager link
Otago Daily Times October 4 (1997): 25-25.
Evening Post September 26 (1997): 5-5.
Dominion October 4 (1997): 20-20.
Sunday Star Times E; October 19 (1997): 6-6.
New Zealand Herald G; October 25 (1997): 6-6.
Listener October 25 (1997): 47-48.
The Press Sup.; November 1 (1997): 14-14.
New Zealand Books 1.8; Mar (1998): 25-26.
Landfall 195; Autumn (1998): 77-87.
True Stars. Auckland: Random Century, 1990. Voyager link
North and South Mar (1990): 122-123.
Evening Post March 24 (1990): 31-31.
Dominion March 24 (1990): 9-9.
Dominion Sunday Times April 1 (1990): 15-15.
New Zealand Herald 2; April 7 (1990): 6-6.
New & Notable 2.7; May (1990): 4-4.
Broadsheet 178; May (1990): 37-38.
The Press May 5 (1990): 27-27.
Listener May 14 (1990): 110-110.
Metro 108; June (1990): 146-148.
InfoChoice 5; July (1990): 2-2.
Landfall 3.44; Sept (1990): 384-385.
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Poetry
"A poem for Leigh." Grace : New Zealand June (2000): 62-62.
"Black hearts." Landfall 2.44; June (1990): 178-178.
"Bulls provide semen for breeding programmes; The man who loved violets; A woman photographed; Prague Spring 1; Prague Spring revisted : 1989." Poetry NZ 2; (1990): 39-43.
"From going to the Chathams." Landfall 150; June (1984): 175-178.
Going to the Chathams : Poems 1977-1984. Auckland, Heinemann 1985.
PSA Journal 11.72; Dec (1985): 13-13.
Listener 2429.114; September 6 (1986): 84-84.
"Guy Fawkes 58." JAAM: just another art movement 21; Mar (2004): 93-93.
Honey and Bitters : Poems. Christchurch, Pegasus Press 1975.
NZ Bookworld 21; Feb (1976): 23-24.
Landfall 31; Mar (1977): 32-39.
PPTA Journal Mar (1976): 47-48.
Listener April 17 (1976): 33-33.
Islands 1.5; Sept (1976): 102-105.
"In the library." Landfall 118; June (1976): 173-174.
"Light gathers (for Topsy Wi)." New Zealand Books 4.5; Oct (1995): 31-31.
"Light gathers.." New Zealand Books 3.5; Aug (1995): 11-11.
"Night suns." Landfall 115; Sept (1975): 211-211.
On the Tightrope : Poems. Christchurch, Pegasus Press 1978.
Landfall 33; Mar (1979): 80-84.
"Queenslander cottage (for Janet Irwin)." Listener 2607.126; February 26 (1990): 114-114.
"Return to Waipu; A fading photograph; Making our bed." Landfall 109; Mar (1974): 28-30.
"Scenes of the land." Meanjin 4.50; Summer (1991): 629-629.
"Scenes of the land; Tobys eggs." Poetry NZ 3; (1991): 22-23.
"The ledge; A first day at college; The tree house." Landfall 119; Sept (1976): 205-207.
"The man who loved violets; The presence of M at a school reunion; Carol e something like a Lombard." Descant 3/4.20; (1989): 175-179.
"Travelling by car to Levin." Dominion June 29 (1991): 9-9.
"Wairarpa Sunday." Landfall 114; June (1975): 152-152.
"Wakeful nights." Takahe 8; Winter (1991): 54-56.
Wakeful Nights : Poems Selected and New. Auckland, Vintage 1991.
Evening Post September 13 (1991): 5-5.
Dominion Sunday Times September 15 (1991): 23-23.
The Press December 7 (1991): 10-10.
Otago Daily Times December 7 (1991): 27-27.
Where your left hand rests: a collection of poems. Auckland, Godwit 2010. Voyager link
New Zealand Herald May 22 (2010): 40.
New Zealand Books 20.4; Summer (2010): 18.
Herald on Sunday 290; April 25 (2010): 10.
Metro Auckland 343; May (2010): 123-124.
Otago Daily Times April 10 (2010): 49.
"Wild yes wild; The newsmakers." Landfall 144; Dec (1982): 398-399.
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Short Story
A Needle in the Heart. Auckland, Vintage 2002.
"Beyond black and white." Landfall Autumn (2003): 189-192.
New Zealand Herald G; Sept (2002): 9-9.
Press D; October 5 (2002): 11-11.
Sunday Star Times C; October 20 (2002): 6-6.
Listener October 26 (2002): 56-57.
Next Oct (2002): 82-82.
Dominion Post F; October 5 (2002): 12-13.
"Bare necessity." Herald on Sunday Sup.; January 15 (2006): 8-9.
"Dry rot." Islands 4.4; Summer (1975): 372-395.
"Flower man." Landfall 96; Dec (1970): 393-406.
"Fridays child." Landfall 105; Mar (1973): 26-38.
"Honor & La Jane." North and South Mar (1993): 106-111.
Mrs Dixon and Friend : Short Stories. Auckland, Heinemann 1982.
National Business Review November 4 (1988): 39-39.
PSA Journal 10.69; Nov (1982): 14-14.
Listener 2238.102; December 18 (1982): 107-107.
Landfall 37; Mar (1983): 96-99.
Robocop in Long Bay. In: The Best New Zealand Fiction. Auckland, Vintage 2004.
"Strange delight." Landfall 101; Mar (1972): 51-59.
"Sulphur City 61." Sport 21; Spring (1998): 17-21.
"Summer reading : hats." Listener 2499.120; January 16 (1988): 26-27.
The Best of Fiona Kidmans Short Stories. Auckland, Vintage 1998.
Evening Post January 8 (1999): 5-5.
Dominion January 16 (1999): 20-20.
Otago Daily Times March 24 (1999): 24-24.
Listener March 27 (1999): 42-43.
"The courting of Nora." North and South Oct (1987): 90-100.
The Foreign Woman. Auckland, Random House 1993.
Dominion September 18 (1993): 12-12.
Quote Unquote 5; Oct (1993): 32-32.
Metro 148; Oct (1993): 154-156.
Otago Daily Times October 2 (1993): 20-20.
New Zealand Herald 2; October 9 (1993): 7-7.
Listener October 16 (1993): 50-50.
New & Notable 5.10; Nov (1993): 4-4.
New Zealand Books 4.3; Mar (1994): 1-4.
Landfall 187; Autumn (1994): 138-140.
Evening Post September 10 (1993): 7-7.
The Press December 24 (1993): 21-21.
Australian Book Review July (1994): 44+.
"The stung ones." Landfall 111; Sept (1974): 224-230.
"The torch." Islands 1.3; Autumn (1974): 35-46.
"The whiteness." Landfall 158; June (1986): 214-221.
Unsuitable Friends : Short Stories. Auckland, Century Hutchinson 1988.
Listener 2533.122; September 17 (1988): 40-40.
National Business Review September 23 (1988): 33-33.
North and South Oct (1988): 134-138.
New Zealand Womans Weekly October 31 (1988): 56-56.
The Press October 21 (1989): 27-27.
Landfall 3.43; Sept (1989): 370-372.
InfoChoice 3; Feb (1990): 2-2.
Where's Waari?: a history of the Maori through the short story. Auckland, Reed 2000. Voyager link
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Short Story Collection
The trouble with fire. Auckland, Vintage 2011. Voyager link
Otago Daily Times August 20 (2011): 49.
Herald on Sunday 354; July 17 (2011): 13.
North and South 306; Sept (2011): 104-105.
New Zealand Books 21.4; Dec (2011): 9.
Sunday Star Times July 17 (2011): F10.
Dominion Post July 30 (2011): 34.
Listener 229.3715; July 23 (2011): 37.
Metro Auckland 358; Nov (2011): 108-109.
New Zealand Woman's Weekly September 12 (2011): 78.
Listener 234.3766; July 14 (2012): 36-37.
 

Works about:

Anthology
Morrissey, Michael. The Flamingo Anthology of New Zealand Short Stories. Flamingo, Auckland, 2000.
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Article
Saker, Nicola. "At the writers desk - Fiona Kidman." Wellington City Magazine September 2 (1985): 62-62.
Smither, Elizabeth. "A small quiet cell." Listener 2525.121; July 23 (1988): 38-39.
McLeod, Marion. "Katherine Mansfield: a painter with words." Listener 2528.121; (1988): 22-23.
Tolerton, Jane. "Where imagination runs supreme." New Zealand Woman's Weekly September 26 (1988): 54-57.
Vincent, Rosemary. "Fionas rural roots an asset." New Zealand Woman's Weekly July 16 (1990): 48-48.
Campbell, Gordon. "Sword fighting at PEN." Listener 2608.126; March 5 (1990): 34-36.
Williamson, L. "On the write path." Southern Skies Sept (1992): 58-59.
Phare, Jane. "A woman who dared to challenge." New Zealand Herald 2; September 22 (1994): 2-2.
Smith, Charmian. "Kidmans experience an example for ordinary women." Otago Daily Times October 18 (1994): 15-15.
Register, Jo. "There aint nothing like being a Dame." Evening Post October 29 (1994): 15-15.
Kruger, L. "At home with Fiona Kidman." Evening Post Sup.; February 13 (1996): 1-3.
Matthews, Philip. "A womans work." Listener October 4 (1997): 34-36.
Johnson, Matt. "Unlocking potential." Sunday Star Times F; November 23 (1997): 3-3.
Liddy, Katherine. "All men are appalling, etc." Listener October 26 (2002): 56-57.
Chisholm, Donna. "Magazine says sorry to leading author." Sunday Star Times A; November 17 (2002): 6-6.
Sharp, Iain. "Needle is Kidmans thread." Sunday Star Times C; October 20 (2002): 6-6.
McCrystal, John. "Return of the muse." Dominion Post A; October 5 (2002): 13-13.
Morris, Paula. "Interesting tension : observations from the intellectual brothel." Landfall 208; Spring (2004): 164-175.
Thomson, Margie. "Digging up the past." Herald on Sunday Sup.; August 7 (2005): 20-21.
Nicholas, Jill. "A true star." Daily Post B; March 25 (2006): 1-1.
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Biography
Cross, Robert. Moments of invention: portraits of 21 New Zealand writers. Heinemann Reed, Auckland, 1988.
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Criticism
Simpson, Peter. "Recent fiction and the Sargeson tradition." JNZL: Journal of New Zealand Literature 1; (1983): 17-30.
Caffin, Elizabeth. "Ways of saying in recent New Zealand fiction." Journal of New Zealand Literature 2; (1984): 7-14.
McLeod, Aorewa. Private lives and public fictions. In: Public and Private Worlds : Women in Contemporary New Zealand. Edited by Shelagh Cox. Allen & Unwin/Port Nicholson Press, Wellington, 1987: 67-81.
McCallum, J. "What the novelists see. The April report : report of the Royal Commission on Social Policy. Volume 3, part one: future directions, associated papers." Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives of New Zealand H. 2.; (1988): 425-447.
Watson, John. "From Mansfield to Svensson: the female hero in recent short fiction by women writers." JNZL: Journal of New Zealand Literature 7; (1989): 44-64.
Roberts, Heather. Where did she come from? New Zealand women novelists 1862-1987. Allen & Unwin/Port Nicholson Press, Wellington, 1989.
Rosner, E. "Silencing the ventriloquist : The Book of Secrets." World Literature Written in English 1.31; Spring (1991): 80-86.
Bergmann, Laurel. "The spectacle of the other." SPAN 36; (1993): 608-617.
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Essay
Kendrick, Lance. Traveller in the Countries of the Heart: a preliminary bibliography on Fiona Kidman. Library School, National Library of New Zealand, Wellington, 1976.
Bodner, M. "Writers reign." Onfilm 1.5; Dec (1987): 24-24.
Dowling, P. "Towards a supreme fiction." NZ Monthly Review 305; Feb (1988): 16-17.
"Research notes." Turnbull Library Record 22.2; Oct (1989): 121-121.
McLoughlin, David. "Top table." North and South June (1994): 90-91.
Wilson, Janet. "Gripping, lyrical Kidman." New Zealand Books 1.7; Mar (1997): 1-4.
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Interview
Ensing, Riemke. "Fiona Kidman." Landfall 136; Dec (1980): 352-361.
Ensing, Riemke. "Riemke Ensing interviews Fiona Kidman." Landfall 34; Dec (1980): 352-361.
Else, Anne. "Writing herstory (interview)." Broadsheet 117; Mar (1984): 38-40.
Myers, Virginia. Fiona Kidman. In: Head and Shoulders: successful New Zealand women talk to Virginia Myers. Penguin Books, Auckland, 1986.
McLeod, Marion. "A breed of novelist." Listener October 3 (1987): 34-36.
Kedgley, Sue. Fiona Kidman. In: Our Own Country: leading New Zealand women writers talk about their writing and their lives. Penguin Books, Auckland, 1989: 157-176.
Vincent, Rosemary. "A passion for writing." Broadsheet 180; Aug (1990): 28-29.
O'Hare, Noel. "Harvesting our history." Listener Sup.; December 17 (1990): 38-38.
Hansen, Penelope. My father and me : New Zealand women remember. Tandem Press, Auckland, 1992: 70-71, 145.
Bowron, Jane. "The mentors." Sunday Times October 31 (1993): 25-25.
Tyler, Janet. "A true toughness." Quote Unquote 16; Oct (1994): 12-13.
Sarti, Antonella. Spiritcarvers: interviews with eighteen writers from New Zealand. Rodopi, Amsterdam, 1998.
Walsh, Frances. "No resting in peace." Grace : New Zealand June (2000): 58-62.
Hubbard, Anthony. "Telling tales." Sunday Star Times F; July 30 (2000): 1-1.
Tait, Maggie. Otago Daily Times December 20 (2003): 52-52.
Sharp, Iain. "Secrets and pies." Sunday Star Times Sup.; October 26 (2003): 31-31.
Murray, Danielle. Dominion Post C; December 31 (2004): 3-3.
Welch, Denis. Listener September 10 (2005): 14-15.
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Memoir
Kidman, Fiona. At the end of Darwin Road: a memoir. Random House, Auckland, 2008.
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Photographs
New Zealand writers. Set 2 (pictures). Dept of Education, Wellington, 1989.
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Profile
O'Brien, Gregory. Fictitious town-planning. In: Moments of Invention : Portraits of 21 New Zealand Writers. Heinemann Reed, Auckland, 1988: 40-46.
Corbett, Frank. "Fiona Kidman : raider of the real world." North and South Dec (1988): 104-109.
Bungay, Ronda. Grace : New Zealand June (1999): 60-65.
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Short Story Collection
Sewell, Bill. Essential New Zealand short stories. Random House, Auckland, 2009.
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