THE GROOVE BOOK REPORT

At the AGM of Friends Of Randell Cottage, yesterday, we learned that esteemed writer, librettist, playwright, poet, academic, had passed away.  Dominic O’Sullivan, announced on social media his father had died in Dunedin on Sunday April 28. “Hei aitua hoki, kua hinga toku matua. I am profoundly sad to share that my father, Emeritus Professor Sir Vincent O’Sullivan, died in Dunedin late yesterday. I was present with his wife Helen. In the next day or two, Vince will travel to the Home of Compassion in Island Bay, where he will repose ahead of his Requiem Mass later in the week at St Mary of the Angels, Wellington.” I knew Vincent first as a lecturer at Victoria University in the mid 1990's and then later when he was involved with Randell Cottage.  But there are many tributes. My favorite to date is from Steve Braunias, writing in Newsroom,  who calls him A tribute to a literary master of everything . Rnz also feature  another report  of him. And Claire Mabey (NZ ...

Bungalow, the new novel by recent Randell Cottage writer, Julien Blanc-Gras, is due to be published on May 2. Published by French publishing house Stock, Bungalow is about a French family leaving Paris to travel to South-East Asia, in order to escape professional burn-out, digital madness and Western depression. Read more at  Stock  (note site is in French)