Elizabeth AlleyElizabeth Alley

Elizabeth Alley is a broadcasting legend who produced and presented literary programmes for many years at Radio New Zealand. She served on the Literary Fund and the NZ Book Council, and was among the founders of the Wellington readers and writers week. Elizabeth was born in Waipukurau.

Review: Loving Sylvie is a gossamer story of small moments that matter

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Broadcasting legend Elizabeth Alley reviews Loving Sylvie, the gorgeous, ephemeral new novel by Elizabeth Smither. A bride is rowed across a grey-green lake to her wedding. She rehearses her new name, “Sylvie Grace Taverner,” as the waters lap the boat. There’s a black swan and a flotilla of ducks. The oarsman is her grandfather Kit, … Read more

Book of the Week: The best New Zealand novel of 2018

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Elizabeth Alley celebrates the latest novel by the masterly New Zealand writer Vincent O’Sullivan. Is there anyone else like Vincent O’Sullivan? His new novel traces several generations of a New Zealand family, from 1947 to 2004 with the brief, revealing return to 1938 at the book’s end; it opens as the novel’s over-arching character, Stephen, leaves … Read more