Claire Mabey
Music feature: Claire Mabey analyses song lyrics
We haven't done this one since the end of 2023, but It's time to revive a bit of a classic music feature concept. I'm joined by Author and our sometimes book critic Claire Mabey. As well as critiquing… Audio
Book Critic: new work from Michelle Duff and Kate Camp
Claire Mabey reviews a forthcoming book of short stories from Michelle Duff called Surplus Women and Makeshift Seasons, new poetry from Kate Camp. She also reviews Australian writer Helen Garner's… Audio
The art of the 'blurb'
Claire Mabey joins Emile Donovan to discuss the future of blurbs on books. Audio
Book Critic: new books from Tania Roxborogh and Neville Peat
Writer and founder of Verb Wellington, Claire Mabey, reviews some new books to replenish your reading pile after summer. Charlie Tangaroa and the God of War by Tania Roxborogh, Rural Hours by Harriet… Audio
Book Critic: Delirious by Damien Wilkins
Claire Mabey discusses the latest from the NZ writer Damien Wilkins. She also looks at The Hotel Balzaar by acclaimed children's novelist Kate DiCamillo and The Haunted Wood, a history of children's… Audio
Book Critic: the best young adult novel ever
Claire Mabey discusses her pick from the Booker shortlist; previews author Patrick Ness' visit to New Zealand and enthuses about The Changeover by legend Margaret Mahy and it's 40-year anniversary. Audio
Book Critic: You Are Here by David Nicholls
Claire Mabey discusses 'the perfect Sunday read' from David Nicholls. She also recommends Commune: Chasing a utopian dream in Aotearoa by Olive Jones and a deep dive into evolution: Eve: How the… Audio
Book Critic: Claire Mabey
Claire Mabey talks about Megan Dunn's The Mermaid Chronicles, The Nevermoor books and previews a new documentary about Dame Fiona Kidman. Audio
Claire Mabey: The Raven's Eye Runaways
You may know Claire Mabey as the founder of the Verb Wellington Festival, perhaps as co-curator of the Aotearoa NZ Festival of the Arts writers programme, or as a book reviewer. Now she's adding… Audio
Book Critic: Claire Mabey
Today Claire talks to Mark about At the Grand Glacier Hotel by Laurence Fearnley, The Garden Against Time by Olivia Laing and Tarot by Jake Arthur. Audio
NZ Children and Young Adults book awards short list
The finalists for the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults have been announced today.Taking us through the list of finalists books editor and our own book critic Claire Mabey. Audio
Book Critic: Claire Mabey
Today Claire talks to Jesse about two very different memoirs, First Things by Harry Ricketts and Splinters by Leslie Jamison. She also talks about Jane Arthur's children's novel Brown Bird. Audio
Book Critic: Claire Mabey
Today Claire talks to Jesse about The Unsettled by Richard Shaw, Otherhood, a forthcoming anthology and Ash by Louise Wallace. Audio
Call goes out for writers for Scotland residency
Applications are open now for writers looking to spend three weeks on a windswept island in Scotland. Audio
Book Critic: Claire Mabey
Today Claire talks to Jesse about three very different books, The Grimmelings by Rachael King, Plastic by Stacey Teague and The Vet's Daughter by Barbara Comyns. Audio
Book Critic: Claire Mabey
Today Claire talks to Jesse about The Cazalet Chronicles - a five-book series by Elizabeth Jane Howard, So Late in the Day by Claire Keegan and The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff. Audio
Book Critic: Claire Mabey
Today Claire talks to Jesse about Spoiled Fruit, The Vintner's Luck and The Observologist by Giselle Clarkson, the artist who creates our critter of week t-shirt art. Audio
Music feature: Lyrics as poetry with Claire Mabey
Our resident book critic and Verb founder Claire Mabey has a wonderful way of taking song lyrics and turning them into poetry. She's been done this a few times for our music feature and is back again… Audio
Book Critic: Claire Mabey
Claire Maybe reviews Lapvona by Otessa Moshfegh; Nightbitch by Rachel Yoder; Articulations by Henrietta Bollinger. Audio
Books with Claire Mabey
The Dry Heart by Natalia Ginzberg Ginzberg was an Italian writer who died in 1991 and in the past few years her books have been translated and reprinted and finding a whole new audience. The Dry Heart… Audio
