Two new titles from Wellington publishing collective Lawrence and Gibson

Dating Westerners: tips for the New Rich of the Developing World
Richard Meros - Lawrence & Gibson - $25.

 These days globalisation is on everybody’s lips.

But have our considerations of world trade focussed too much attention on goods and too little on  love?  And why is it that the new rich from the developing world can possess all that they see on TV except Westerners?

Dating Westerners is here to help. With textbook precision and an openness uncharacteristic of the subject, Meros explains the motives, mysteries and myths behind the Westerners’ bodies and minds.

Richard Meros spent two years travelling the Orient, watching the mistakes of Eastern peers. He offers the results of his study to the New Rich of the Developing World in the hope that they will seduce the declining West and, in the process, save us from ourselves.

 Also available by Richard Meros from Lawrence & Gibson:

Richard Meros salutes the Southern Man

On the conditions and possibilities of Helen Clark taking me as her Young Lover

Easy Whistle Solo

Beggars & Choosers

$30 Meat Pack

Zebulon: a cautionary tale

Privatising Parts

 

Ad Lib

Thomasin Sleigh - Lawrence & Gibson - $27.00

 The camerawoman zooms in on the photo, the lens of the camera lingering on the image. After a moment, the camerawoman reaches out and touches it and Kyla copies her, tracing the outline of her mother’s face and the straight line of her raised arm.

            ‘She will be in our thoughts always,’ whispers the camerawoman.

When celebrity singer Carmen Crane passes away, her only daughter inherits a reality TV show. As Kyla Crane adjusts to this new scrutiny, strange things start to happen: the house is rearranged overnight, unknown characters appear, the show’s narrative loses its way, and the camera crew begin to echo events. When fragments of her mother’s past surface, Kyla is compelled to scroll through the footage and come to her own conclusions about life in the public eye and her ambiguous inheritance.

Ad Lib is Thomasin Sleigh’s debut novel. The novel expands on her previous writing about art through its focus on images and visual culture. She regularly contributes to Lumière Reader, and has written about art for many publications and galleries in Australasia.