Fool's Paradise

A collection of Steve Braunias' weekly columns from the "New Zealand Listener", this book takes the reader back to the way New Zealand used to be and often still is. Some of the author's recurrent topics are tearooms, mangroves, small New Zealand towns and death.

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Fool's Paradise takes you back to New Zealand the way it used to be and the way it often still is. Steve Braunias, the award-winning deputy editor of the New Zealand Listener, writes about places and things in New Zealand in a fresh, lyrical way. He can be funny, sad, serious, cruel and a complete jackass - and sometimes all of those in one piece. Some of his recurrent topics are tearooms, mangroves, small New Zealand towns and death.Fool's Paradise collects together a selection of Steve's weekly coloumns along with new material.