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The big city daily newspapers all run columns of news and opinion about the latest books being published in New Zealand, Australia, Britain and the United States. Only very occasionally do they look at books from other countries. New Zealand readers are steered, in this way, towards the viewpoints of what will later be called the Anglosphere. The Otago Daily Times in its books column today talks about new books by D H Lawrence, H G Wells, John Galsworthy, Winston Churchill, Edith Wharton, Maxim Gorky. Also discussed are writers who will later be more or less forgotten, among them the New Zealand novelist Hugh Walpole. Walpole’s new novel is The Captives, set ‘in London and at the seaside, and the principal figures are set against a background furnished by a certain religious sect.’ Walpole, born in Auckland, spends most of his adult life in Europe. He has become a bestselling author thanks to writing popular lightweight books.
Otago Daily Times, 09 October 1920
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