Brian Darcey was interviewed on Radio New Zealand International. Go to

www.rnzi.com

and you can read it. More information on Bougainville can be found on the website,

www.scoop.co.nz

Bougainville Blue has been reviewed in the Sunshine Coast Regional newspaper

Read the review at www.pngaa.net

Here is a review done by someone who has familiarity with Bougainville:

B/ville Blue – more than a good yarn

Some months ago in these notes, I mentioned the publication of Bougainville Blue, a novel by Brian F Darcey that is more than loosely constructed around events on Bougainville in the couple of decades from the late 1960s. When I noted its publication, I hadn’t read the book, but a current sojourn in Noosa has relieved me of other responsibilities and given me an opportunity to immerse myself in what has turned out to be far more than a rattling good yarn. In fact, Brian subtitles it ‘An Allegory’, which is a neat insight into what the reader can expect.

The novel is articulated through a rich cast of nicely drawn characters, the principal of whom is Josip Nugui, a bright and well educated young Bougainvillean who is inexorably and somewhat reluctantly drawn into the struggle of his people against the development of the copper mine and the massive consequent disruption to the culture and lifestyle of the village people. Continue to read more - http://asopa.typepad.com/asopa_people/books_film/ and look at this fabulous site by KEITH JACKSON

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