Poetry in New Zealand: how much and says who?
ARTbop Literary Editor Marcus Hobson has been checking out our collective level of interest in…
Browsing: Hobson’s Choices
Marcus Hobson: Some recent New Zealand Poetry Collections
Over the last few months I have had the pleasure of reviewing several new collections…
Marcus Hobson: Fun with Reading Lists!
ARTbop Literary Editor, contributor and book reviewer, Marcus Hobson confesses to being “highly book addicted”…
ARTbop: counting down to Christmas
On the first day of Christmas… ARTbop contributors have done some wonderful things in their…
Hobson reviews Henning Mankell
There are so many books in the world that we cannot possibly read them all.…
Grim Tales – A Book of Illustrated Journeys:
Grim Tales is an amazing project. Not just as a book, which is the end…
Graham Swift’s Mothering Sunday: a Hobson’s Choice
There seems to be a trend going on at the moment for shorter novels. Perhaps…
ARTbop: what’s up and what’s coming up!
Kia ora and a mid-winter welcome to ARTbop. Yes, it’s been some time since ARTbop…
Hobson’s Choices: recent war themed non-fiction
The centenary of the First World War has seen a proliferation of new books being…
The Villa at the End of the Empire: Fiona Farrell
I first read this book last August before it was shortlisted for the non-fiction category…