Carl Shuker

Nov 21, 2024 | nzreviewofbooks.com | Guy Somerset |Carl Shuker

One of the sly pleasures of Carl Shuker’s last novel, the Ockham NZ Book Awards- shortlisted A Mistake (2019), was its nod to dystopian British writer JG Ballard. The surgeon central character in A Mistake is named Elizabeth Taylor, not so much for the actress as for the fetishist fantasy of her in Ballard’s 1973 novel Crash.

Oct 21, 2024 | waikatotimes.co.nz | Carl Shuker

Oct 15, 2024 | northandsouth.co.nz | Clare Thomson |Carl Shuker

“Gwyneth had just won the Oscar,” I said. “There was a NZ$15 million budget. A period piece. Cars, costumes, Daniel Craig, Michael Gambon, Jared Harris, even Blythe Danner, Paltrow’s real mum, playing her mum. Weren’t you overawed? Wasn’t it intimidating?” “No, not really,” she said. “Really?” “Well, we shot at Cambridge on our first day on set, I was like, oh, I felt sick. But we’ve got a schedule in front of us. You just get down and do your job. One foot in front of the other.

May 5, 2024 | northandsouth.co.nz | Clare Thomson |Jeremy J. Rose |Carl Shuker |George Driver

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