Claire MabeyClaire Mabey

Claire Mabey is the director of LitCrawl in Wellington. Along with her partner Andrew Laking, she is one half of Pirate & Queen Productions. Claire was born in Tauranga in 1985.

Book of the Week: Tina Makereti’s women’s suffrage, LGBTQ, post-colonial adventure

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Claire Mabey praises a breathtaking new novel by Tina Makereti (Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Te Āti Awa, Ngāti Rangatahi). It’s hard to conjure a concept more offensive than the ethnological expositions, or human zoos, of the 19th and 20th centuries. A few years ago in Edinburgh, I saw the controversial installation Exhibit B by artist Brett Bailey. … Read more

Book of the Week: Reviewer has baby while writing review of a novel about the death of a baby

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Claire Mabey gave birth to a 34-week-old golden-haired boy in Wellington last week. She also found the time to review a heartbreaking novel about the death of a baby. The writing of this review of Kate Duignan’s novel The New Ships got hijacked half-way by early onset pre-term labour and the arrival of my first born. A … Read more