Book Title: Eddie Sparkle’s Bridal Taxi
Author: Frankie McMillan
Publisher: Canterbury University Press
Book Distributor: Nationwide Book Distributors
ISBN: 978-1-98-850351-6
Blurb:
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 and shootings and 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.
RRP: $29.99
Format: Paperback
Size: 195 x 135mm
Audience age range: Adult
Publication Date: 6 October 2025