The Spinoff
It’s the most exciting time of the year in the New Zealand book world as the Ockham New Zealand Book Award longlist has just been announced. We also have a line up of three New Zealand books for review and have a wee look at what’s on the reading pile and coming out in 2021.
Mentioned in this episode...
Books
KD: Gangland by Jared Savage, with a mention of Patched by Jarrod Gilbert (HarperCollins NZ)
Gyles Beckford on RNZ’s Bookmarks
LK:Victory Park by Rachel Kerr (Makaro Press)
Kiran’s interview with Rachel for the NZ Herald.
JT: Remote Sympathy by Catherine Chidgey (VUP)
Not Books
KD: Michael Apted’s Seven Up series
LK: What Writers and Editors Do by Karl Ove Knausgaard on The Paris Review blog
JT: Bling Empire and Pretend it’s a City (both Netflix)
The TBR Pile
KD: The Mirror Book by Charlotte Grimshaw, A Crooked Tree by Una Mannion, Kitchenly 434 by Alan Warner, The Young Team by Graeme Armstrong
LK: Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb, At Freddie’s by Penelope Fitzgerald, with a mention of I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
JT: Remaining Ockham fiction longlist to read: Bug Week by Airini Beautrais and Toto Among the Murderers by Sally Morgan
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