The Lobster’s Tale A loving memoir set in

A loving memoir set in small-town New Zealand

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‘Those familiar with Macleod’s pictorial world may find its location made pleasingly ambiguous by the references and reflections that Jones places beside it

The Lobster’s Tale A loving memoir set inWhats 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