Lawrence & Gibson Publishing

20/05/2026

Great evening with Brannavan Gnanalingam interviewing RF Kuang in Wellington.

27/11/2025

All of Gnanalingam's musical secrets in one handy place....

From one song played masochistically on repeat to a sprawling 12-hour playlist, this is the music behind the books.

30/04/2025

In-depth, thoughtful review of Kartik Popat from Jack Ross in Landfall Review. “A relentless chronicle of ‘the time of our time’ (to borrow a phrase from that great Satan, Norman Mailer). There are some scenes here I doubt I’ll ever be able to scrub out of my memory, no matter how hard I try.”

Jack Ross on The Life and Opinions of Kartik Popat by Brannavan Gnanalingam

06/04/2025

"Kartik starts his memoir by disclosing that he shares a birthday with Charles Ponzi, ‘the Italian cottage Industrialist,’ therefore hinting at the kind of broad perspective that later endears him to the political class."

The Life and Opinions of Kartik Popat by Brannavan Gnanalingam. Lawrence & Gibson (2024). RRP: $30.00. PB, 304pp. ISBN: 9780473725976. Reviewed by Cybonn Ang. Brannavan Gnanalingam’s eighth novel, The Life and Opinions of Kartik Popat, is a witty, highly entertaining memoir of one Kartik Popat, a ...

03/04/2025

One of those rare reviews that really excavates the themes of the book in a way that is infinitely quotable: "Gnanalingam’s instantly iconic and deceptively clever thought-experiment The Life and Opinions of Kartik Popat, connects endstate far-right disinfo Disgrasians with our classic Asian diaspora starting point of ‘what if I was a loser with no friends?’"

An 'Asian horror story' and an 'instantly iconic' political satire.

27/03/2025

Our founding editor Murdoch is off overseas for a spell again, so we all know what that means: reprinting a tonne of copies of Turncoat which just keeps selling, now at the stage of having about 8 classroom copies being taught around the motu. Here's a shot of what Rebel Press looks like right now.

20/03/2025

"I’ve just published my novel, The Life and Opinions of Kartik Popat, which is my eighth since 2011. I admit that’s quite a feverish pace, which is probably explained by the fact I’ve had close relatives die of heart disease and war by their forties (I’ve just turned forty-one)."

SATELLITES connects the past, present and future of Aotearoa Asian art.

12/02/2025

Great hearing Bran's latest featuring in this RNZ reviewers favs of 2024.

Hannah August reviews three of her favourite books from last year.

21/01/2025

Not even our shortest release, but great seeing Sharon Lam's Lonely Asian Woman living on in the recommends for great shortish books.

Ten brilliant – and brilliantly short – books to kickstart the year.

03/01/2025

20 years in publishing. We're gonna do something of a year by year, book by book blow as and when we feel like it. Our first book was Richard Meros' On the conditions and possibilities of Helen Clark taking me as her Young Lover (2005) which was later turned into a raucously fun play that toured the country in 2007/08 by Arthur Meek and Geoff Pinfield.

The biggest beginners luck coup was when Toby Manhire, who was writing for the Guardian at the time, gave the book a short review which we mined for all the quotes we could, but which no-one really believed actually happened (see below for linx). The book is now out of print, but we nabbed this cover pic of the original hot pink version from BookHaven who have a copy of it in stock.