Our Book of the Week, the wholly remarkable Greta & Valdin by Rebecca K. Reilly, is an irrepressible, seemingly off-hand yet sharply insightful novel set in the queerness, nerdiness and cultural diversity of a distinctly vibrant contemporary Aotearoa. It has (unsurprisingly) been short-listed for the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction in the 2022 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. 
>>Invented people on real streets — Stella interviews Rebecca K. Reilly. 
>>Read Stella's review of Greta & Valdin. 
>>What sort of pants do I wear?
>>Like an old lawnmower. 
>>The Acorn Prize round table. 
>>Infrequently asked questions. 
>>Put a straw under Baby. 
>>Videotapes.
>>Sender.
>>Time for a cultural reset. 
>>Re-Verb.
>>New notebooks.
>>Perversity, cynicism and sheer wickedness.
>>Watching, reading and listening. 
>>Gin & Vonic.
>>Your copy of Greta & Valdin. 
>>Other books short-listed for the 2022 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.