The Lobster’s Tale ‘A breviary or book of

‘A breviary or book of the hours

historically revealing’ — Jenny Nicholls

In the mid-1990s Wayne Linklater landed a job researching the bands of wild horses that lived in New Zealand’s largest military training grounds near Waiouru

A loving memoir set in small-town New Zealand

‘This is a book that will grace any bookshelf or coffee table but don’t expect anyone who casually picks it up to merely flick through and then put it down

The Lobster’s Tale ‘A breviary or book ofWhats the lobsters tune when he is boiled? Exploring the lobsters biology and its history in language, literature and gastronomy, The Lobsters Tale navigates the perils of a life driven by overreaching ambition and the appetite for knowledge, conquest and commerce. In conversation with the text, Bruce Fosters photographs navigate a parallel course of shadows and light, in which the extraordinary textures and colours of the natural world tell a darker