Nurus Van Vliet in a long strong review for Takahe calls THE ROYAL FREE 'a fantastic read, at once entertaining, compassionate, and stylistically exciting.' So great when writers with hearts on sleeves meet critics with the same. takahe.org.nz/the-royal-free/

'that's the really spiritual part of it, is when you're just communing with your head and a pen and 'what can I come up with today? what can I make out of the nothingness that was prior?'' 🎧 Carl Shuker discussed The Royal Free and how he writes on 95bfm: 95bfm.com/bcast/the-roya…

My god look at Lebanon tonight…

Thrilled to see Ash, Delirious, Poorhara, The Royal Free, Bad Archive, The Chthonic Cycle, Do You Still Have Time for Chaos?, Future Jaw-Clap, First Things, Whaea Blue, Faces and Flowers, Killer Rack, and Plastic on The Spinoff's best books of 2024 list 🎉 thespinoff.co.nz/books/10-12-20…

THE ROYAL FREE in The Spinoff’s top ten books of 2024… Imogen Pelham

THE ROYAL FREE in Newsroom’s Best of 2024… newsroom.co.nz/2024/12/12/xma…

The Royal Free by Carl Shuker 🌻 is strange and wonderful. The minutiae of office politics set against a riot-torn, feral London. Genuinely unsettling, with diamonds strewn among its concrete

So beautiful

'No one in New Zealand writing is as capable of literary genius as Carl Shuker of Wellington.' - Steve Braunias raves about Carl Shuker's The Royal Free in the 2024 ReadingRoom Awards Carl Shuker 🌻 newsroom.co.nz/2024/12/19/huz…

Let's hear it for the 2025 Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction nominees! shorturl.at/pIWdD Otago University Press Te Herenga Waka University Press Penguin Books NZ Mākaro Press Ultimo Press Moa Press #theockhams

Congratulations to all Ockham NZ Book Awards Fiction longlisters, in particular these ANZL members and their books: Pretty Ugly by Kirsty Gunn, The Royal Free by Carl Shuker 🌻 and The Mires by Tina Makereti #theockhams

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A riveting depiction of the fracturing of a stable reality – personal, institutional, and societal: The Royal Free by Carl Shuker 🌻 My review: tinyurl.com/mrymkauk #YeahNoir #ReadNZ Te Herenga Waka University Press

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We're thrilled to be bringing back Chemistry by Damien Wilkins in a fresh new form—look at this gorgeous cover by Sarah Wilkins! teherengawakapress.co.nz/chemistry-b-fo…

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Out tomorrow from Counterpoint Press - the ONLY comic novel of London, riots, death and Microsoft Word.

‘McIlvanney delivers gut-punch storytelling…his tales are always well worth the wait.’ Many thanks to Craig Sisterson for this cracking review of The Good Father in the current NZ Listener…📚

'He wished his children could be with him at the end, “however a cruel and intrusive law prevents this”. ' thepress.co.nz/nz-news/360727…