Papercuts

The Papercuts gals are back to help you navigate the huge flood of incredible books that were delayed by Covid-19 and are now finally available for your reading pleasure. We also bring you our usual winning formula: a hot scoop of book industry news, our insightful book reviews and discussions, our not-book reviews and our dangerously teetering TBR piles. Come up the Papercuts lab and see what’s on the slab! Books reviewed this episode: KD: The Discomfort of Evening by Marieke Lucas Rijneveld, Summerwater by Sarah Moss and Mayflies by Andrew O’Hagan LK: Sisters by Daisy Johnson (Jonathan Cape) & Nothing to See by Pip Adam (VUP) JT: Deep Work by Cal Newport (Little & Brown) Not books: KD: Gloss on YouTube LK: The Great on Neon JT: Origins on TVNZ The TBR Pile: KD: Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart (Picador) and Real Life by Brandon Taylor (Daunt) and 2020 NZ fiction for judging the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction for the Ockhams! LK: The Broken Earth trilogy by N. K. Jemison (Orbit), The Swim