Tag Archives: Reading

Interview | Carl Shuker
Interviews
April 19, 2020 posted by Unity Wellington

Interview | Carl Shuker

Carl Shuker is a former editor at the British Medical Journal and the author of four novels. His latest, A Mistake, is a small capsule of a novel that explodes with…

Interview | Becky Manawatu
Interviews
April 8, 2020 posted by Unity Wellington

Interview | Becky Manawatu

Becky Manawatu’s debut novel Auē is a humbling word embrace that captures the strength of aroha in the face of soul-destroying sorrow. Taukiri and Ārama, young brothers born unwittingly into New Zealand’s…

Interview | Dawn O’Porter
Interviews
October 16, 2019 posted by Unity Wellington

Interview | Dawn O’Porter

Famed in the literary world for her hugely successful novel, The Cows, Dawn O’Porter is back with her novel, So Lucky, which centres around universal issues facing the modern woman. From self-worth to…

Lisa Taddeo
Interviews
July 22, 2019 posted by Unity Wellington

Lisa Taddeo

Lisa Taddeo is the American author of Three Women who spent eight years of her life moving her family around the country to be in the vicinity of the women…

Toby Faber
Interviews
June 27, 2019 posted by Unity Wellington

Toby Faber

Tilly’s review on Radio NZ of Toby Faber’s book Faber & Faber: An Untold Story pricked up the ears of many a customer here in Auckland. It made good sense then to…

Nick Jans
Interviews
May 1, 2019 posted by Unity Wellington

Nick Jans

As New York Times writer Bronwen Dickey said, “Nick Jans is an exceptional storyteller — no nature writer can top him in terms of sheer emotional force — and he…

Sharon Lam
Interviews
May 1, 2019 posted by Unity Wellington

Sharon Lam

Lonely Asian Woman by Sharon Lam has been lauded by New Zealand’s Pantograph Punch as a book to look out for in 2019. They described Lam’s debut as a read similar…

Colin Hogg
Interviews
November 21, 2018 posted by Unity Wellington

Colin Hogg

Colin Hogg is the author of Going South: a Road Trip Through Life, High Road: A Journey to the New Frontier of Cannabis and most recently Sam Hunt: Off the Road. About the book…