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- Sep 26, 2026
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The Good Life: There is no way of understanding the relationship we have with creatures (opens the original)
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The day we came to see what we would come to call Lush Places, I asked the owner, Albert, what he did about rabbits. All I knew about rabbits was that they ate things but were also cute, with their bobbly bottoms. I grew up reading Beatrix Potter and eating my boiled egg out of a Beatrix Potter egg cup. I converted early to anthropomorphism. Albert said what he did with the rabbits was shoot them and throw their carcasses out into the paddocks for the hawks to strip. I said I would make friends
New books from veteran crime writers Ian Rankin and Michael Robotham reviewed, why one fails to fire (opens the original)
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Ian Rankin revels in the awful and grasping. Photo / Supplied Journalist Patrick Radden Keefe’s London Falling was published earlier this year to much acclaim. It is the true story of a young fantasist from a family of comfortably middle-class academics who sent their boy to a posh school where he was surrounded by properly rich kids who went on posh hols and whose parents had flash cars. He didn’t. So he created a fantasy life in which he became intricately, and ultimately tragically, entwined
Big-brained s*** stirrer who turned our gaze towards NZ art turns 90 (opens the original)
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Hamish Keith, the cultural odd job man, as he likes to style himself, boulevardier, long-retired Lothario, bon vivant and possessor of a very big brain, has just turned 90. His wife, the Oscar-winning film costume designer Ngila Dickson, gave him a party as a birthday present. There were 40 guests. I asked who was there and he said, mock-grandly: “Who wasn’t there?” I could think of a few people. His great friends Colin McCahon and the writer Gordon McLauchlan were quite obviously not there, bei
The Good life: Lush Places welcomes a parrot (opens the original)
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A parrot in search of a pirate. Photo / Greg Dixon We have a new member of the menagerie. We found this newest member in the Lush Places letterbox where it had – and here’s a clue – flown in from Napier via the Listener’s out tray. It is a parrot. And not just any parrot. It is a quite delightfully dotty, felted parrot stuffed with the “dried-apricot coloured wool” of moorit sheep, the accompanying letter informed me. Moorit sheep are very hard to come by and I know this because I immediately go
Townie Bruce Ansley, a deer farm and a dream: What could possibly go wrong? (opens the original)
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There was a possum in Bruce Ansley’s ceiling. No. Make that a bloody bastard possum that was living in the roof of the big, old, white two-storey house on the deer farm he and his wife Sally bought, on a whim in search of a dream, in a remote inlet in Port Levy on Banks Peninsula. The house had six bedrooms, much charm, and much of its charm was in the idea of it. It represented a romantic idea, the dream of a rural idyll. “The big white house, the smoke curling in the blue winter air, the deer
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