Fool's Paradise

Random House NZ, Auckland, 2001, 190 pages. Very slight fade to spine, minor foxing to page edges, (reading) crease next to spine on front cover, good secondhand condition.

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 columns along with new material.