Media

14.06.20: Ripiro Beach_Radio New Zealand interview with Jim Mora 

Caroline Barron talks with Jim Mora about Ripiro Beach. 

https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/sunday/audio/2018750606/life-near-death-and-healing-with-the-light-of-history 

12.06.20: Ripiro Beach_Caroline on TV3’s The Cafe with Carly Flynn

12.06.20: Ripiro Beach_Radio New Zealand review by Holly Walker

Holly Walker reviews Ripiro Beach. “Honest and unsparing.” “A really compelling read.” “An evocative writer.”

https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/ninetonoon/audio/2018749716/book-review-ripiro-beach-by-caroline-barron

08.06.20: Life After PTSD, US Podcast, with Caroline Barron 

Interview with hosts Jeff McLaughlan and Kari Russo about the layering of trauma and PTSD in Ripiro Beach. 

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/life-after-ptsd/id1448130626

09.06.20: Caroline and Sarah, A Love Story, by Caroline Barron and Sarah Myles

Article on Newsroom about becoming friends with Sarah Myles (author of Erebus memoir Towards the Mountain) during Covid-19 Lockdown. 

https://www.newsroom.co.nz/2020/06/09/1215262/caroline-and-sarah-a-love-story 

31.05.20: Ripiro Beach_ review on Papercuts podcast  

A nine minute review by Time Out book shop’s Jenna Todd. Listen from 26.25 minutes.

https://thespinoff.co.nz/podcasts/31-05-2020/papercuts-quarantine-pod-3-ockhamdown-special/ 

03.06.20: Ripiro Beach_When Time Catches up with Itself, by Caroline Barron 

Article in The Three Lamps journal, by Caroline Barron, about the genesis of Ripiro Beach.

https://www.thethreelamps.com/blog-posts?category=2020-articles

05.06.20: The Spinoff: 15 Memoirs to Heal the Soul, by Caroline Barron

https://thespinoff.co.nz/books/05-06-2020/15-memoirs-to-help-heal-the-soul/

24.05.20: Auckland Writers Festival Winter Series: Episode Four

Featuring short story writer Deborah Eisenberg discussing her latest collection ‘Your Duck is My Duck’, writer and actor Wallace Shawn with ‘Night Thoughts’ and Caroline Barron on ‘Ripiro Beach: A Memoir of Life After Near Death’. Hosted by Paula Morris.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S53yXXIAlxQ

13.04.20: Ripiro Beach_First chapter preview online

Thanks to Coalition of Books New Zealand for supporting books whose planned launches have been affected by Covid-19 through their First Chapters initiative. Read Chapter 1 of Ripiro Beach here:

http://www.coalitionforbooks.nz/first-chapters-non-fiction/

13.04.20: Ripiro Beach_Reids Reader Review Nicholas Reid review Ripiro Beach: 

http://reidsreader.blogspot.com/2020/04/carolinebarronripirobeachsomething-new.html

8.04.20: Ripiro Beach_Launch date delayed to 5th June 2020

Due to Covid-19, Ripiro Beach will now be available in stores from 5th June 2020 (rather than 5th May 2020). Please support your local book shop by emailing them with a request to order.

31.03.20: Ripiro Beach_Book launch party cancelled

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