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In the last quarter-century or so, award-winning journalist Bruce Ansley has written for newspapers in both islands of New Zealand, as well as overseas, with titles as diverse as the Christchurch Star, the Otago Daily Times, and the London Sun. He has worked for radio, and on television shows such as A Week of It and McPhail and Gadsby. He was a staff writer for the NZ Listener magazine until the end of 2006, when he left to become both canal voyager in France and full-time writer of books. His last book was Stoned on Duty (Hodder Moa Beckett), a tale of intrigue involving the police undercover war on drugs. Bruce has won fellowships to both Oxford and Cambridge universities. He is a one-time crayfisherman and has had a lifetime affair with boats of all kinds, from dinghies to sailing boats, and with his wife Sally spent a couple of months a year over several years living on a launch in Westhaven, Auckland. He still likes nothing better than messing about in his vintage motor-sailer on the cerulean waters of Golden Bay. He and Sally have been married for a very long time and despite the events described in A Long Slow Affair of the Heart, remain so. They have twin sons living in London and Auckland, and another son living in Sydney, while they remain doggedly in Christchurch.
He is now working on another book, set in New Brighton, once Christchurch's most bustling suburb, the only place in the country where shops opened on Saturdays; the place where he grew up amid happy anarchy beside the sea. Laid waste by the reforms of the 90s, its main street and the malls fell silent until, in the new millennium it began climbing off the floor.
It's an urban tale, the story of a place and the people who lived there, and a family, and of what happened to them all; an account of New Zealand over the last two decades and what we've won, and lost, all of it overlaid by a friendship that survived half a century before coming to a cataclysmic end. The book will be published by Longacre.
A Long Slow Affair of the Heart: An Adventure on the French Canals
Gods and Little Fishes: A boy and a beach