One Night Out Stealing

ONE NIGHT OUT STEALING has many of the strengths of 'Once Were Warriors' - the dialogue, the pub culture, the reckless abandon of those who live hand to mouth and the rules which bend them together . . . Alan Duff is doing something original and important.

Geoff Chapple, Sunday Star

Duff hits the nail on the head again

Mike Crean, Christchurch Star

Duff's great strength as a novelist is that he ventures with pugnacious gusto where others fear to tread . . . Duff's extraordinary prose moves with dizzying momentum and crackles with compressed energy.

Iain Sharp, Evening Post

I found it compulsive reading

Clarke Isaacs, Otago Daily Times

. . . this is one novel you won't forget in a hurry

Paul Baker, Wairarapa Times Age

brutal, foul-mouthed, violent, despairing and real . . . it can't be ignored.

Jack Sulzberger, Hawke's Bay Herald Tribune