‘How Bizarre’ was a life-changing success from which Pauly Fuemana could never escape. Duncan Greive speaks to Simon Grigg, author of an excellent new book about the song. Simon Grigg is wandering around Europe, following his wife Brigid to Poland and Paris, where she has work to do. He has nothing of the sort on at … Read more
English novelist Sarah Waters was in New Zealand this week as a guest of the Christchurch WORD literary festival, and promoting her latest novel The Paying Guests. You’ve said of your latest book: “I’ve never really written a love story before.” Can you expand on that? Are your previous novels more sort of romps than romances, … Read more
An essay by New Zealand’s best social realist novelist in response to the incredible My Struggle series. This really happened. One evening, when I was standing with my siblings at a party, a woman approached who was familiar and yet unknown. We all had the same split-second reaction: who is this stranger we know so well? … Read more
An occasional series in which we feature an insight or proverb from In the Arena, the thoroughly entertaining new book by entrepreneur Diane Foreman and her ghost writer Jenni McManus. On working overseas: “Make up a medical kit before you go. I always travel with laxatives and take one before I leave.” In the Arena, by … Read more