James McNeish — Mr Halliday And The Circus Master
David Ling 1996 Paperback, 141pp. ‘Why do you hate us?’ ‘Because you oppose me.’ So begins a duel between a physician and a Prime Minister which forms the heart of this unusual and disturbing novel from James McNeish. In Mr Halliday and the Circus Master, the author exercises a theme he has brooded on for years. He evokes a landscape and a time that every New Zealander will remember, in a way that not every New Zealander will care to remember it. (ISBN: 9780908990382). Good.