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In What I’m reading #56 , posted on 29 April, and again in What I’m reading #77 , posted on 25 August,   I complained that Booksellers NZ’s ...

The 56th in this occasional series of reprints from Quote Unquote the magazine is from the November 1993 issue. The portrait is by Br...

Laurence Fearnley , one of my favourite novelists, is on tour to Wellington and Palmerston North. I’m not sure of the format but both eveni...

Recently I have been listening in the car to the Bee Gees and Pink Floyd when the Concert Programme announcers got too annoying, which is of...

Alerted to the fact that Paul Litterick has a book review in the September issue of Metro , which is reason enough to buy a copy, I went in...

In the comments to What I’m Reading #76 , in which I criticised a story in the Sunday Star-Times claiming that people don’t read New Zealan...

From novelist Joseph Connolly in this week’s Spectator Diary: Q. How many publishers does it take to screw in a light bulb? A: Three – ...

Today is our 14th wedding anniversary and also Karlheinz Stockhausen’s 84th birthday. Coincidence? To mark the occasion Birmingham Opera is ...

I spent yesterday in Wellington being a consultant in an hour-long meeting. It took a whole day to get there and back, flights from Hamilton...

To Auckland last night for the last night of Barry Humphries’ season, and probably the last night of Barry Humphries in Auckland.  It wa...