Author(s): Steve Braunias

New Zealand

The funniest book about New Zealand politics ever! Dirty, shocking, weird, sick, toxic, unbelievable, profound, stupid, harrowing, insane in the brain - New Zealand's 2014 election campaign had it all. It got stranger with every day, and Steve Braunias made it his mission to record the entire black farce in a series of breathless and bizarre campaign diaries. He 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 hard drugs were passed around ...