Claire Mabey
Book Critic: Claire Mabey
Today Claire talks to Jesse about Shy by Max Porter, Everything Is Beautiful and Everything Hurts by Josie Shapiro and For They Great Pain Have Mercy on Little Pain by Victoria MacKenzie. Audio
Book Critic: Claire Mabey
Today Claire talks to Jesse about three different memoirs. The Other Side by Jennifer Higgie, A Forager's Life by Helen Lehndorf and Winter Warmers: Recipes and stories from a New Zealand High Country… Audio
Book Critic: Claire Mabey
Today Claire Mabey talks to Jesse about Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton and Getting Lost by Annie Ernaux. Audio
Book Critic: Claire Mabey
Today Claire talks to Jesse about Ruby Tui's memoir, Tauhou by Kotuku Titihuia Nuttal and Lucy by the Sea by Elizabeth Strout. Audio
Book Critic: Claire Mabey
Today Claire talks to Jesse about Fludd by Hilary Mantel, the new RNZ Cookbook and Dame Fiona Kidman's book of essays/memoir called So Far, for Now. Audio
Song lyrics with Claire Mabey - Part 2
Verb Wellington festival director Claire Mabey returns to do some deep lyrical analysis of some of our favourite tunes! Audio
Book Critic: Claire Mabey
Claire reviews Nicky Pellegrino's latest, To Italy, With Love, Lynda Hallinan's, The Joy of Gardening and The Fortnight in September by R C Sherriff. Audio
Book Critic: Claire Mabey
Claire Mabey reviews Hine and the Tohunga Portal, Ten Acceptable Acts of Arson and Small Bodies of Water. Audio
Coven theme for Wellington's 2021 Verb literary festival
The programme for November's Verb Reader's and Writer's Festival has been released today - and this year the festival comes with a special theme. Audio
The Panel with Susan Hornsby-Geluk and Ian Powell (Part 2)
Panellists Ian Powell and Susan Hornsby-Geluk discuss arts funding as part of the Covid-19 Recovery Fund, productivity and Working From Home, and whether conusmerism and tourism will return to full… Audio
Book Critic: Claire Mabey
Claire Mabey reviews She's A Killer by Kirsten McDougall and Matrix by Lauren Groff. Audio
Book Critic: Claire Mabey
Claire discusses 3 books she's enjoyed recently, Skinny Dip - a poetry collection for young readers, Butcherbird by Cassie Hart and The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak Audio
Book Critic Claire Mabey
Today Claire Mabey looks at A Swim in a Pond in the Rain by George Sanders, Long Players: Writers on the Album that Shaped Them, by Tom Gatti and Party Legend by Sam Duckor Jones. Audio
Book Critic - Claire Mabey
Claire Mabey reviews The Believer by Sarah Krastnostein, Rangikura by Tayi Tibble, The Mirror and the Palette by Jenny Higgie, and Unsettled Ground by Claire Fuller. Audio
Book Critic: Claire Mabey
Claire Mabey reviews Greta & Valdin by Rebecca K Reilly, Tranquility & Ruin by Danyl Mclauchlan and A Clear Dawn: New Asian Voices from Aotearoa New Zealand edited by Alison Wong and Paula Morris. Audio
Book Critic - Claire Mabey
Today Claire reviews Sorrow & Bliss by Meg Mason: Brilliant novel essentially about mental health, family, relationships and concepts of what a good mother is/should be. Claire also talks about her… Audio
Book Critic: Claire Mabey
Claire reviews The King's Nightingale by Sherryl Jordan, Tokū Pāpā by Ruby Solly, and Magnolia by Nina Mingya Powles. Audio
Book Critic Claire Mabey
Claire talks about three new books and has some summer reading suggestions Audio
Claire Mabey's 'To Be Read Lists'
Critic and Director of Verb Wellington Claire Mabey shares some favourites for your summer reading list. Audio
