Wulf

Hamish Clayton

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Penguin Books (NZ)
31 January 2011

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Early nineteenth century New Zealand - the great chief Te Rauparaha has conquered tiny Kapiti Island, from where Ngati Toa launches brutal attacks on its southern enemies. Off the coast of Kapiti, English trader John Stewart seeks to trade with Te Rauparaha, setting off a train of events that forever change the course of New Zealand history.

Narrated by two English sailors on board Stewart's ship, these events are also eerily resonant of a more distant memory, stretching back into mythology, of the charismatic leader Wulf and an ancient lament. History, it seems, may be repeating itself.

Wulf, Hamish Clayton's inventive, brilliant first novel, explores a subject little covered in New Zealand fiction, and marks the emergence of a startlingly assured, exciting new voice.

'I was blown away by Wulf's imaginative derring-do. It is easily the most impressive debut I've read in a long time.'

-Lloyd Jones, author of Mister Pip

'A powerfully imagined novel - assured, crisply poetic and spellbinding in its unfurling narrative. . . . Clayton

is

a gifted writer for a new generation.'

-Murray Bramwell, NZ Books

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By: Hamish Clayton
Imprint: Penguin Books (NZ)
Country of Publication: New Zealand
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 136mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 230g
ISBN: 9780143206491
ISBN 10: 0143206494
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 31 January 2011
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Hamish Clayton was born in Hawke's Bay in 1977 and educated at Victoria University of Wellington. His first novel, Wulf, won the NZSA Hubert Church Best First Book Award for Fiction at the 2012 New Zealand Post Book Awards. In the same year, he was a Writer in Residence at the Weltkulturen Museum in Frankfurt, and in 2013 he held the Buddle Findlay Frank Sargeson Fellowship in Auckland. He lives in Wellington.

Shortlisted for New Zealand Post Book Awards: Best First Book of Fiction 2012.
Winner of New Zealand Post Book Awards: Best First Book of Fiction 2012
Winner of New Zealand Post Book Awards: Best First Book of Fiction 2012.

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