What’s on our MPs’ reading lists

Pristine, popular . . . imperilled? The environmental consequences of tourism growth -- quite intense reading for a holiday. She’s also reading The Struggle for Maori Fishing Rights: Te Ika A Ma¯ori by Brian Bargh and The Reality Bubble: Blind Spots, Hidden Truths, and the Dangerous Illusions that Shape Our World by Ziya Tong.

On the fiction side of things, Sage will be cracking into The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See and The Book of Dust by Philip Pullman.

Minister for Women and Associate Transport and Health Minister Julie Anne Genter plans to finish Between Debt and the Devil: Money, Credit, and Fixing Global Finance by Adair Turner, a book about the role of debt in the Great Financial Crisis.

Bonus points to Nicola Willis for sending us not just a list of books, but a brief review of why she’s reading them. It’s a busy summer of reading for the National list MP, beginning with Tayi Tibble’s Pou¯kahangatus, with the poem ‘‘Hoki Mai’’ which Willis, a former English lit student, said hit her with a boom at the 2018 Anzac day ceremony. She’s also reading These Truths: A History of the United States by New Yorker writer Jill Lepore. Willis’ visit to the US this year made her want to read more about its history.

She’s also reading Fiona Kidman’s This Mortal Boy. ‘‘I’m interested by the events leading up to the Mazengarb report into youth delinquency in 50s NZ.’’ She plans to read Boris Johnson’s (yes, he writes books too) The Churchill Factor and Margaret Atwood’s Booker-prize winning The Testaments.

She’s catching up on issues of Cuisine magazine and The Economist and reading the Harry Potter novels to her children.

National’s transport spokesman, Chris Bishop, will also be reading a British political memoir, only this time from one of Johnson’s opponents, Ken Clarke, a pro-EU Tory MP until he resigned ahead of this year’s election. Bishop plans to read Clarke’s memoir, Kind of Blue.