Man in the Running

Wellington author Craig Cliff’s debut short story collection, A Man Melting is in contention for this year’s Commonwealth £5, best first book award. Cliff is up against South African writer Cynthia Jele’s Happiness is a Four-Letter Word, Canadian writer Katrina Best’s Bird Eat Bird and UK novelist Mischa Hiller’s Sabra Zoo. The Listener’s Siobhan Harvey said of Cliff’s collection: “A Man Melting examines all the big questions of life — birth, infancy, adolescence, violence, parenthood, death — and does so in fresh and intriguing ways. Given the youth of its author, this fact, like the book itself, is an astounding feat.”


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Pirate Comedy Deserves Another Season

Pirate Comedy Deserves Another Season

Cancelled after two season, Taika Waititi’s “silly comedy” Our Flag Means Death “deserves one more voyage”, according to Radio Times critic George White. “ was meant to be sacred…