Carl Shuker
@rcshuker.bsky.social
Author of The Royal Free. Also: A Mistake, Anti Lebanon, Three Novellas for a Novel, The Lazy Boys, and The Method Actors. Official Memorial Device Alternative National Treasure.
Bravo!
Michael Brown@jingajik.bsky.social · 2mo agoMusic writer Norman Meehan has been awarded the Lilburn Research Fellowship for 2027. "Dr Meehan will use the Fellowship to research and write a book about the music label Rattle Records (est. 1991), renowned for its taonga puoro, jazz, and classical recordings." natlib.govt.nz/about-us/med...
Today we're releasing our latest report: A Window on Disability. Are you or someone you love disabled? Are you receiving the same quality of healthcare as non-disabled people in Aotearoa New Zealand? The answer is no and these data - never seen before - prove it: www.hqsc.govt.nz/resources/re...
‘To read Bill Manhire’s poetry is to be lulled, with an ironic lack of effort, into a landscape that is loaded with sense and meaning for the poet’s narrator(s), but perceived as gently out-of-kilter by the charmed observer’ - unpacking Lyrical Ballads. yorkshiretimes.co.uk/article/Reas...
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The great irony of the Welsh success of Reform, run by millionaire ex-public schoolboys, is that one the greatest Welshmen, & founder of the NHS, warned of this “How can wealth persuade poverty to use its political freedom to keep wealth in power? Here lies whole art of Tory politics” Aneurin Bevan
Pleased to have a new short story, "Silence", out via ReadingRoom @newsroom.co.nz A musician confronts difficult questions years after the tragic death of his lover... 🎻👬 newsroom.co.nz/2026/04/25/s...
Short story: Silence, by Anthony Lapwood
A short story inspired by Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in E Minor
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Kelly Ana Morey’s final novel to be published on first anniversary of her death
Kelly Ana Morey’s final novel to be published on first anniversary of her death
The acclaimed author promised Ordinary People Like Us would be 'the most bougie Māori novel ever written'....
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Opening in two weeks. Watch this space for news about a special closing event that I’ve been cooking up with some friends…
Todd Atticus@toddatticus.com · 8mo agoAnnouncing Picking up the Pieces, a sister exhibition to Sala Alas, open January 12th – 30th 2026 at Inverlochy Art School in Wellington.
My review of the new @tricialockwood.bsky.social novel is up in the latest Listener: (Paywall after tantalising opening mafraid) www.magzter.com/stories/news...
High on her own supply? | New Zealand Listener - news - Read this story on Magzter.com
Read this exciting story from New Zealand Listener October 4-10, 2025 issue. Patricia Lockwood's new novel doubles down and tests the patience of her devotees.
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Love this interview with Pip, so much wisdom here! 💚 thecreativeindependent.com/people/autho...
Author Pip Adam on keeping faith in the project – The Creative Independent
Author Pip Adam discusses how to regain your voice when you lose it, balancing day jobs and creative output, and how place informs the work
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Huge news! Today we're launching our biggest sale ever, to celebrate the move to a shiny new website. ✨ Smooth website experience 📚 50% off ALL books from 2022 & earlier 🗓️ For all of August, while stocks last The sale is live now at www.teherengawakapress.co.nz.
Catherine Robertston reviews Carl Shuker's The Royal Free on RNZ Afternoons:. 'It's the best thing I've read in years... Can't recommend it more highly... It's a tremendous piece of writing.' 💙 www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...
Books: Author Catherine Robertson with her latest picks
We're going to talk about books, specifically what our critic Catherine Robertson calls her "to be read pile of shame" books, also known as those books you've bought and haven't yet got around to…
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Wow ok unfollowing now. Loved his refusal of servitude in heaven, did not know he was responsible for the fall of man
If you were forced to bet on which university courses of study still will be relevant in 50 years, languages, literature, history, philosophy, and arts are all pretty good wagers. They have an excellent track record over the past thousand years or so.
Tobias Wilson-Bates@phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · last yr.Not the point of this fascinating article, but it remains darkly ironic to me that the Humanities have fallen backwards into being the safe financial bet of degrees
Yeah, I was asked to recommend good writing about sex, and yeah, I went there thespinoff.co.nz/books/03-07-...
Landfall comes for THE ROYAL FREE. A long close read that almost gets it…. landfallreview.com/what-we-fear...
What We Fear Is Being Reviewed Maliciously
John Gibb on The Royal Free by Carl Shuke
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A week and a half until the international premiere of my post-apocalyptic found footage instructional film on acid GUT INSTINCT in Oakland, CA at Shapeshifters Cinema, complete w/ a circuit-bending audio set by Kyle Bruckmann (@issimo-sempre.bsky.social) and Q&A by me. Limited seats, don't miss out!
Gut Instinct - a Film by Doug Dillaman + Live Music Performance by Kyle Bruckmann | Shapeshifters Cinema
A post-apocalyptic found footage instructional film on acid, Gut Instinct blends plausible science fiction, outrageous science fact, black comedy and intense visual freakouts in service of a singular ...
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Three of the best fictioneers feature on the latest Writers on Mondays episode!
ANNA SMAILL and CARL SHUKER
Literary power couple Anna Smaill (Bird Life) and Carl Shuker (The Royal Free) talked with novelist Emily Perkins at Te Papa on 2 September 2024. They discussed their work, their life together, and…
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VERY useful briefing on broader implications of US strike on Iran from @warinthefuture.bsky.social mickryan.substack.com/p/america-bo...
America Bombs Iran
A quick assessment of how America's offensive operations against Iran changes the character of the war in the Middle East.
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I wrote about billionaire space dreams, interstellar inequality, and Pip Adam's extraordinary new novel, for @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/books/archiv...
A Novel That Reimagines the Meaning of Outer Space
In Pip Adam’s extraordinary, humane book Audition, the stars are both a dystopian place and a site of uncharted possibility.
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So excited to see the ever-perceptive @robrubsam.bsky.social writing in @theatlantic.com today on @pipadam.bsky.social's "extraordinary" Audition, out in North America this month www.theatlantic.com/books/archiv...
A Novel That Reimagines the Meaning of Outer Space
In Pip Adam’s extraordinary, humane book Audition, the stars are both a dystopian place and a site of uncharted possibility.
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Sample (just a sample) of the Smiths collection with period pricing
A present from my old friend to celebrate completion of the first draft of my new project. 39 for this and so much else over so long @ryskel.bsky.social
