Look out, here she comes: A review of the luminous, tender Olive, AgainMarion McLeod revels in the return of Olive Kitteridge, the compassionate curmudgeon who won Elizabeth Strout a Pulitzer Prize. By Marion McLeod | 21st November, 2019Guest writer
Review: The Library Book is a thrilling tale of fire, loss and renewalAs Wellington and Waikanae face a winter without two beloved libraries, Marion McLeod reviews The Library Book, a hymn to a library that burned. By Marion McLeod | 6th May, 2019Guest writer
One man’s death, and what came afterMarion McLeod reviews Late in the Day, a "smooth and sinuous and subtle" new novel by Tessa HadleyBy Marion McLeod | 29th April, 2019Guest writer
Book of the Week: Why doesn’t Mother love me?Marion McLeod reviews the new memoir by English novelist Rose Tremain, who summons up memories of a girls' boarding school smelling of "unwashed armpits, dirty hair and menstrual blood.”By Marion McLeod | 10th May, 2018Guest writer
Book of the Week: The life of Claire Tomalin, toast of London literatiMarion McLeod reviews a memoir by author Claire Tomalin, who is candid about her affair with Martin Amis but maintains a classic English reserve.By Marion McLeod | 16th November, 2017Guest writer
Arundhati Roy and the misery of that difficult second novelMarion McLeod is baffled and somewhat bored to sobs by the eagerly awaited second novel by Indian superstar novelist Arundhati Roy.By Marion McLeod | 12th July, 2017Guest writer
Book of the Week: Marion McLeod reviews a thriller about a Glasgow serial killerMarion McLeod reviews an 'icy-cold' account of a Scottish serial killer by the brilliant Denise Mina.By Marion McLeod | 22nd June, 2017Guest writer
Book of the Week: Marion McLeod on the amazing Angela CarterMarion McLeod reviews the first full biography of English writer Angela Carter, whose eventful life included working on a screenplay of the Parker-Hulme murder in Christchurch.By Marion McLeod | 1st December, 2016Guest writer
Book of the Week: the strange life (sodden, ‘so many men!’, the Parker-Hulme murder) of Beryl BainbridgeMarion McLeod reviews a new biography of the great novelist Beryl Bainbridge - which reveals she wrote an unpublished manuscript based on the Parker-Hulme murder in Christchurch.By Marion McLeod | 3rd November, 2016Guest writer
Book of the Week: Marion McLeod on Jenny DiskiIt's raced up the bestseller charts at Unity Books in Wellington: Marion McLeod reviews Jenny Diski's In Gratitude, not just "another fucking cancer diary".By Marion McLeod | 9th June, 2016Guest writer