Linda Burgess lives in Wellington. She has written novels, short stories, a travel memoir, film scripts, and a book about historic houses. She also translates French children's books. Linda was born in Pahiatua in 1948.
For kids to thrive at school they have to be engaged – and so do teachers.
I wake up round 5am and think, what will I have today?
The family dog is a special part of out lives. But are we taking the mollycoddling too far?
It's supposed to be a tearjerking but ultimately uplifting viewing experience. So why does Linda Burgess find it such an uneasy watch?
A gender-flipped Handmaid's Tale set during a pandemic... and it's a black comedy?
Turn on your computer, click on Facebook. Click on friends. Declutter, declutter, declutter.
That Oprah interview put the entire British royal family in the crosshairs – but some are likely quaking more than others. So should they be afraid?
A new documentary on TVNZ1 following the Mervyn Thompson Affair takes on the thorny incident with wise ambivalence.
Collars, leads, crates, a cleverly designed bottle to drink out of, things that squeak, things that are chewable, gnawable, toys that extend him intellectually. Treats to reward him for not being a little prat.
Was it music’s fault, when words suddenly seemed to be less important than instruments? Or was it just life taking over?
The original series about a Yorkshire vet was a late-70s television phenomenon. Could the rebooted version scratch a similar itch for recovering Anglophile Linda Burgess?
Having started the pandemic storyline, God, or perhaps the scriptwriters working on the world’s stories, have lost the plot.
Over the last few months, Linda Burgess has cheered herself up by watching cooking programmes. And saying fuck.
Linda Burgess puts on her mask, goes to the mall, and finds herself slipping into a dystopian level two nightmare...
Last time Curtis Sittenfeld fictionalised a first lady she absolutely nailed it, writes Linda Burgess. This time something's ... off.
Judith is the youngest of six. Gerry is the oldest of five. Jacinda and Grant? Youngest of two and three, respectively. But where are the misunderstood middle children in our parliament?
The Man Booker prize-winning novel arrives on our screens, but does it make it the transition unscathed?
At the interval, Linda Burgess's legs are aching. But in the second half, magic happens.
Summer journeys: In the first of a special summer travel series, Linda Burgess looks back on the not-so-glamorous New Zealand holidays of her youth.
Linda Burgess on the biggest-selling, most-loved book of summer: Becoming, the memoir by Michelle Obama.
We asked former All Black great Bob Burgess to review a new book on his team-mate Keith Murdoch. But then we changed our mind, and asked his wife Linda Burgess to write whatever she wanted about rugby.
All week this week we count down the five best books of 2018. Number four: Linda Burgess reviews the Ottolenghi cookbook Simple.
