The Weekly talks with Sahar Delijani, author of Children of the Jacaranda Tree. What was the inspiration for Children of the Jacaranda Tree? The novel was inspired by my family’s experience as political prisoners in Iran in the 1980s. From my own birth in prison in 1983 to my uncle’s execution in the mass executions […]
The small South Island town of Geraldine is one of the last places you would expect to find New Zealand’s raciest writer. Leigh oarsden – whose first major novel is out this month – is used to the bright lights of Auckland and the glamorous playground of the super yacht set in the south of […]