Claire Mabey
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
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