Claire Mabey
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
Claire Mabey's books of the week
Claire reviews This is Not a Pipe by Tara Black and Diary of a Young Naturalist by Dara McAnulty. Audio
Claire Mabey on books
Claire Mabey reviews Sprigs by Brannavan Gnanalingam and Handiwork by Sara Baume. Audio
Claire Mabey's good reads
Book critic and director of Verb Wellington Claire Mabey reviews Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell, Nothing to See by Pip Adam and a free online poetry journal Saltwater Love Zine. Audio
Re-reading in lockdown
Claire Mabey has been revisiting some of her favourite books, and devoured some new material. Audio
Claire Mabey's lockdown reading
Claire Mabey, Director of Verb Wellington, reviews three lockdown reads. Audio
Claire Mabey's three very different books
Claire reviews Frances Hardinge's Deeplight, Daisy Johnson's Sisters, Nicky Pellegrino's A Dream of Italy. Audio
2019 Literary Moments: Pip Adam, Rachael King & Claire Mabey
The Booker, The Ockham, Atwood, Knox, The closure of the New Zealand Review of Books, covering up white suprematist posters in Newmarket with Hone Tuwahre's poem 'Rain', and Lloyd Jones' proclaiming… Audio
Claire Mabey's top ten reads for 2019
In our last book chat of the year! Claire Mabey Director of Verb Wellington is in to share her top ten reads of the year. Audio
Book Critic: Claire Mabey
Claire reviews Oligarchy by Scarlett Thomas and City of Trees by Sophie Cunningham. Audio
Book Critic: Claire Mabey
Claire reviews Lawrence Patchett's The Burning River, touches on the Booker controversy and talks about some of the highlights you can expect at Verb Wellington next week. Audio
Lately Book Club: Claire Mabey on Verb Wellington
Verb Festival, featuring the LitCrawl is on again in Wellington over four days from 6 - 10 November. A literary fest and feast for anyone who likes the written word, especially if it's a doing word… Audio
Book Critic: Claire Mabey
Claire Mabey reviews Wild Honey, Reading New Zealand Women's Poetry - an anthology by Paula Green. Peat by Lynn Jenner, and Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss. Audio