A gem for all Kiwi readers’ shelves

• Published date: 29 May 2023
• Publication title: Bush Telegraph

by Katherine Mansfield, Penguin Random House, $40

Katherine Mansfield is our most famous short story writer, even though she was gone from tuberculosis at 34. This is a collection to mark her centennial selected by her biographer, Claire Harman, and they are glorious works.

The title comes from her own words, that “the mind I love must still have some wild places”.

Inside this hardback are all the stories we know well — The Garden Party, At the Bay, The Doll’s House — and a...