Papercuts

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) Mary Holm on RNZ’s Bookmarks 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 P