Patrick Evans

Books on prize lists

• Salt Picnic

  Written in English

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  NZ Book Awards 2018 · Shortlist

  Salt Picnic

  Salt Picnic

  Patrick Evans

  Novel · Historical

  AIAI-generated summary:In 1956 Iola arrives on Ibiza, at the edge of Franco's Spain, carrying hardly more than a phrasebook, and meets an elusive American photographer who questions her about a German doctor.

• The Back of His Head

  Written in English

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  NZ Book Awards 2016 · Shortlist

  The Back of His Head

  The Back of His Head

  Patrick Evans

  Novel · Satire

  AIAI-generated summary:Seven years after the death of New Zealand's Nobel-winning novelist, the four trustees who run his house as a museum face falling visitor numbers, a pushy biographer and the secrets of their own ties to the great man.