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PAUL THOMAS LOCKDOWN in NEW ZEALAND Q & A

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Which historical writer would you find it difficult to be self-isolating with and why?

This is a tough one but I can’t go past Norman Mailer. In an Observer piece from the early 1980s, reproduced in his collection The Moronic Inferno, Martin Amis wrote that “for some reason or other, Mailer spent the years between 1950 and 1980 in a tireless quest for a fistfight.” Amis described a 700-page oral biography of Mailer as “strewn with vicious confrontations, drunken couplings, ostentatious suicide bids, cruel human manipulations, incessant violence – and incessant cant.” After a few days of that, I think I’d take my chances with COVID-19.

 

Fallout by Paul Thomas on 2015 shortlist for best NZ crime novel

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Fallout on shortlist of five for 2015 Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Crime Novel in New Zealand. Expect it to win in September!

 

Fallout by Paul Thomas in NZ crime award long list for 2015.

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Long list for 2015 Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Crime Novel, revealed today and includes Fallout by Paul Thomas.