Viking, $26, 197 pp. What does a keenly watchful purple fowl observe, hanging around the courtyard of a wealthy wine merchant in ancient Pompeii? Gluttony, drunkenness, sexual rapacity, vicious ...
It's rather ... things like, something seen, something overheard. For instance, the title story, which is called "The Purple Swamp Hen," arose from, there was a wonderful exhibition at the British ...
Milo Bilbrough's Purple swamp hen is the seventh of nine in the Listener's summer short story collection. Photo / Getty Images Each summer, we commission nine of Aotearoa’s finest writers to tell us a ...
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