Rat King Landlord (Renters United edition)
Author(s): Murdoch Stephens
A special A3 newsprint edition of this NZ novel, featuring illustrations from Kiwi artists including Toby Morris (The Spinoff), Danz (YeeHawTheBoyz and the band Dartz) and Hannah Salmon (Daily Secretion).
Colossal rats invade from the town belt. Your rent is going up but everyone is calling it a summer of love. Cryptic posters appear around Wellington inciting people to join an evening of mayhem. Until now the rats have contented themselves with scraps. But as summer heats up and the cost of living skyrockets, we can no longer ignore that our friends are seeking their own rung on the property ladder.
Renters United and Lawrence & Gibson have teamed up to produce 5000 newsprint copies of Rat King Landlord, the first time a newspaper has been made of a novel in Aotearoa in living memory. This edition has been beautifully illustrated by sixteen of Aotearoa’s most excellent artists, elevating this collaboration into a beautiful, dare we say - collectible – edition
Product Information
Murdoch Stephens’ 2022 novel Down from Upland was longlisted for the 2023 Ockham Book Awards fiction prize. He is also known for founding the successful campaign to double New Zealand’s refugee quota, a discussion of which was released as a BWB Text in 2018. He is a founding editor of Lawrence & Gibson.
Renters United is an advocacy group that organises renters and campaigns to make renting in New Zealand better for everyone. Formed in 2015, it sees decent housing as a basic human right and our broken renting system as a barrier to realising this right for all.
General Fields
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- : Lawrence & Gibson
- : Lawrence & Gibson
- : 01 March 2023
- : 01 May 2023
- : books
Special Fields
- : 400 x 290 x 3mm
- : Murdoch Stephens
- : Newspaper
- : 40
- : 16
