Claire Mabey
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
Book critic: Claire Mabey
Claire explores the themes of awkwardness and anxiety as she reviews novels by two New Zealand authors: Rufus Marigold by Ross Murray and A Mistake by Karl Shuker Audio
Claire Mabey on good re-reads
Kid's books aren't just for children! Book reviewer and parent Claire Mabey brings in her favourite books that deserve re-reading for parents as well as their children. Audio
Short Story Club
Claire Mabey joins us to discuss Two Baristas by Geoff Cochrane Email us your thoughts on it before 3pm Thursday to be in to win a copy of SPORT 46. Audio
Short Story Club
Claire Mabey joins us to discuss a story by Marilyn Duckworth called Butterfly Smith Email us your thoughts by 3pm. The writer of the best email wins a copy of The Writing Life Audio
Short Story Club
Today Claire Mabey discuss an older story, A Descendant of the Mountain by Albert Wendt, from Landfall, vol. 17, no. 2, 1963. Audio
Short Story Club
Claire Mabey joins us to discuss Monster by Tina Makereti And our giveaway book for the writer of the best email is her book The Imaginary Lives of James Poneke. Audio
Short Story Club
Today we discuss three short poems by Owen Marshall from his new collection View from the South, We'll give away a copy of View from the South to the writer of the best email about one or all of the… Audio
