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Eddie Sparkle's Bridal Taxi

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Frankie McMillan is one of the leading writers of the short-short form in Aotearoa New Zealand, and Eddie Sparkle's Bridal Taxi, her seventh book, sees her at her best. The prose poems and small stories here demonstrate exceptional range, examining the tiniest psychodramas but also meditating... Read More
Format: Paperback / softback
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Eddie Sparkle's Bridal Taxi

Frankie McMillan is one of the leading writers of the short-short form in Aotearoa New Zealand. The prose poems and small stories here demonstrate exceptional range, examining the tiniest psychodramas but also meditating on drownings and shootings and infidelities and nuclear warfare.

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Frankie McMillan is one of the leading writers of the short-short form in Aotearoa New Zealand, and Eddie Sparkle's Bridal Taxi, her seventh book, sees her at her best.

The prose poems and small stories here demonstrate exceptional range, examining the tiniest psychodramas but also meditating on drownings, shootings, infidelities, and nuclear warfare.

McMillan finds the unusual in the everyday, and she is equally at home with lovers embracing in the fields and with reclusive aunts fading away in poky old houses.

This is writing that reveals humans working out how to be their ridiculous and beautiful little selves. This is writing that feels like thinking.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781988503516

Publisher: Canterbury University Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 06 October 2025

Country: New Zealand

Imprint: Canterbury University Press

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 135.0mm

Height: 195.0mm

Weight: 0g

Pages: 132

About the Author

Frankie McMillan is the author of four previous books from Canterbury University Press. The Father of Octopus Wrestling was one of The Spinoff's ten best NZ fiction books of 2019 and was shortlisted for the NZ Society of Authors Heritage Book Awards. My Mother and the Hungarians (2016) was longlisted for the Ockham NZ Book Awards in fiction. She has won numerous awards and creative writing residencies, including the Ursula Bethell Residency at the University of Canterbury (2014), and the NZSA Peter and Dianne Beatson Fellowship (2019).

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