Charlotte Grimshaw is the author of nine novels, including her celebrated trilogy The Night Book (2010). Soon (2013), and Starlight Peninsula (2015). She was born in Auckland in 1975.
Charlotte Grimshaw reviews A Strange Beautiful Excitement, Redmer Yska's superb telling of Katherine Mansfield's childhood and teenage years in Wellington.
Charlotte Grimshaw reviews the sensational (also really good, and even scholarly) best-seller about Nazis fucked-up on P.
Charlotte Grimshaw on the selfie novels by acclaimed English writer Rachel Cusk.
The two biggest literary sensations of the past few years have been writers from Europe - Italy's Elena Ferrnate, and the remarkable Norwegian solipsist, Karl Ove Knausgaard. Charlotte Grimshaw admires his latest novel as "his most intense outing yet".
Charlotte Grimshaw reports live from a ceremony to honour the new poet laureate - her father, Karl Stead.
As director of the International Institute of Modern Letters at Victoria University, Damien Wilkins is the Great Pooh-Bah of Approved Wellington Lit. But what’s his own writing like? Can he craft an honest novel, or is it all just craft?
Charlotte Grimshaw examines literary sensation Elena Ferrante by way of squaring up to Finlay Macdonald and giving herself a good old talking to.
All week this week we feature a memoir of 2015 by a writer of distinction. Our second memoirist: Auckland writer Charlotte Grimshaw, who published her latest novel Starlight Peninsula, and discovered the setting for her next book - Tokyo.
Charlotte Grimshaw examines literary sensation Elena Ferrante by way of squaring up to Finlay Macdonald and giving herself a good old talking to.
An essay by Charlotte Grimshaw on the literary sensation of the My Struggle novels by Karl Ove Knausgaard.
