Putting on an act
LARRY AND VIV, by Graeme Lay (Renaissance Publishing, $35)
‘You should be tryin’ to write some historical stuff,” the marvellous and much-missed John McIntyre of Kilbirnie’s Children’s Bookshop told me a couple of decades ago.
When I protested that I knew nothing about 19th-century New Zealand, John grunted (he had a
