Andra JenkinAndra Jenkin

Andra Jenkin is an Auckland writer who has co-authored Double Edged Sword with Simonne Butler, performed at the Indonesian Readers and Writers Festival, edited such titles as The Atomic Composition of the Seeming Solid by Shane Hollands, and drawn for the NZ anthology of womens comics, Three Words. Andra was born in Auckland in 1974.

The sixth best book of 2017: The Power by Naomi Alderman

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All week this Christmas week we countdown the six best books of 2017. Number six: Naomi Alderman’s feminist sci-fi novel The Power, described by Andra Jenkin as a metaphor for the #MeToo movement. Naomi Alderman’s novel The Power has a fantastic premise: women are suddenly able to inflict pain and death at will. They can shoot … Read more

Book of the Week: Imagining a future where women are the oppressors

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Andra Jenkin reviews The Power, a wildly successful feminist sci-fi novel which imagines a world where women are in control. Naomi Alderman’s The Power is speculative fiction set in a future and based on the fascinating premise that women are suddenly able to inflict pain and death at will. This is the power of the … Read more