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Books, a new and pungent name in New Zealand publishing, has been created by
author and journalist Steve Braunias to publish his latest book, Madmen: Inside the weirdest election
campaign ever.
Based on the campaign
diaries he filed every day during the election for Metro magazine’s online site, Madmen
is a surreal and comic account of the campaign. It’s political journalism, but
not as we know it.
Steve visited Kim
Dotcom’s creepy mansion. He stole a dinghy to track down the lost tribe of the
Act Party. He fell on hard times, and asked Whale Oil for a job. He invited
Nicky Hager to Hamilton, and left him there. And he hung out with John Key on
the back seat of the Prime Minister’s campaign bus as hallucinogenic substances
were passed around…
Book trade legend
Paul Greenberg took over distribution, and has placed Madmen with Whitcoulls and Paper Plus, as well as independent
stores such as Time Out (Auckland), Unity (Auckland and Wellington) Scorpio
(Christchurch), Page and Blackmore (Nelson), Books a Plenty (Tauranga), Muirs
(Gisborne), Wardini (Havelock North), Bruce McKenzie ( Palmerston North), and Hedleys (Masterton).
Production of Madmen was masterminded by Katrina
Duncan from Auckland University Press, and the cover was designed by Jenny
Nicholls, the art director at North &
South magazine. The cover painting is by subversive Hamilton man Joshua
Drummond, and depicts Prime Minister John Key in a state of supreme
indifference.
Madmen retails for $20.
“It’s a fun book for
Christmas,” said Steve, who is about to start work as a senior writer at the New Zealand Herald.
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