Overview

Steve Braunias shines in this superb selection of new writing. Starting with the election of the Key government, the multiple award-winning writer commentates with devastating directness on the devious ways of politicians, the effects of the recession on ordinary New Zealanders, and the notorious murders that shocked us to the core. On a lighter note, he relates his adoration of birds, his detestation of 'truly horrible food' (columns which brought countless contributions from readers) and the 'hell' of his much-vaunted stay in Antarctica. Threaded throughout - and reported with disarming honesty - is Braunias's own journey as a journalist and would-be novelist. Above all, he writes about his young daughter in moving columns that have won him many new readers and admirers.

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Braunias has touchingly brought together love and bird-watching in a book that stalks sewage ponds and grey warblers with curiosity and affection, and ends with contentment, bliss and a baby born. -- NZ Listener: Best Books of the Year on How to Watch a Bird

Braunias has touchingly brought together love and bird-watching in a book that stalks sewage ponds and grey warblers with curiosity and affection, and ends with contentment, bliss and a baby born. --NZ Listener: Best Books of the Year on How to Watch a Bird Braunias is one of those clever writers able to deliver brilliant humour but also to be serious and thoughtful as required --Graham Beattie, Beattie's Book Blog, on Fish of the Week Provocative, literate, disrespectful . . . eminently readable. --Christopher Moore, the Press, on Roosters I Have Known

Author Information

Steve Braunias writes a weekly column in The Sunday Star-Times, and his articles are widely syndicated. He has written for many TV comedy series and been awarded a Montana Book Award, fellowships to Oxford and Cambridge universities and the Buddle Findlay Sargeson Fellowship.

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