Leather & Chains
My 1986 Diary
$31.20
- Paperback
400 pages
- Release Date
12 February 2026
Summary
It is a dangerous thing to be a teenage girl.
I never kept a diary, except for one year of my life. The year I turned fourteen. The year my parents divorced. The year I had sex for the first time. The year I learned to use the microfiche.
In this unique follow-up to her memoir You Probably Think This Song Is About You, Kate Camp turns her poet’s eye to the rollercoaster entries of her 1986 diary, when she was 13 going on 14.
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781776923014 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1776923014 |
| Author: | Kate Camp |
| Publisher: | Te Herenga Waka University Press |
| Imprint: | Te Herenga Waka University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 400 |
| Release Date: | 12 February 2026 |
| Weight: | 0g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm |
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Critics Review
‘Kate Camp reads the words ofgrownupchild Kate of 1986 - achingly funny, arch and louche, oftenshocking, always clever. And all of it threaded through with such painand sadness and unsettling darkness, such yearning to be loved. Ithought I knew The Diary so well, after all these years listening andwatching from the wings. But reading The Diary myself, as she does inthis remarkable project, is richer, funnier and, yes, sadder thanexperiencing it live in eight-minute snippets. I’ve often wondered aboutKate Camp: how did she get to be so fearless, so peerless, so bold? Theanswer is in these pages.’ -Tracy Farr, author of Wonderland and convenor of the Bad Diaries Salon
‘An irresistible blend ofdarkness and light.’ -Catherine Chidgey,author of The Book of Guilt and Pet
‘IF YOU EVERGET TO SEE KATE CAMP READ FROM HER 14YO DIARY DO IT FUCKING DO IT.’ -MelodyThomas, host of the The Good Sex Project
About The Author
Kate Camp
Kate Camp is the author of the memoir You Probably Think This Song Is About You and eight acclaimed collections of poems, including The Mirror of Simple Annihilated Souls (winner of the 2011 NZ Post Book Award for Poetry), How to Be Happy Though Human: New and Selected Poems and Makeshift Seasons. Kate was born in 1972 and lives in Wellington.
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