Domestic Animals
Claire MabeyMostly about books. Not always about books. Probably a lot about older books and children's literature.
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Not another post about Wuthering Heights
I have nothing left to say about Fennell’s Wuthering Heights. I thought it was a clunky movie, on the nose, badly scripted and poorly paced. Mid as fuck! For me it dug further into the hole of this new style of story telling that has to exp...
Books, lately
I lost track of 2025 quite spectacularly. The last few months of the year felt like a race against myself and all the tasks. When that frantic, fractured state is cleared for the holidays, it leaves this enormous tract in me: to fill it, I...
Does reading make better people/people better?
I’ve been mulling on this for months. “Reading increases empathy” is a common invocation, especially when we’re talking about children – how vital it is for growing brains to explore the lives of others, other worlds, live inside the minds...
Why I love The Bear
I just handed in the manuscript for my second novel which means that my brain is at once as airy as a Whispa bar and leaden as Wellington’s wintry sky (almost felt like I had to duck from it today). In this state I have found it hard to rea...
The comforts of good sex
*Warning! Contains mild spoilers if you haven’t yet read The Safe Keep by Yael van der Wouden
A couple of weeks ago I found myself badly in need of a book to jolt me out of the blues; out of the world. I wasn’t sleeping and when I was my d...
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Founder of Verb Wellington (verbwellington.nz); reader and writer; books editor at The Spinoff. Author of The Raven's Eye Runaways (2024); and The Raven's Eye Rebellion (2026).
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