The Half-Gallon, Quarter-Acre Pavlova Paradise: Austin Mitchell

Mitchell, a former English resident of New Zealand, has written the funniest, frankest and most provocative book about New Zealand, its people, its institutions - in fact, the New Zealand way of life. His shafts, often barbed, a aimed freely at people and institutions but he is well-disposed to New Zealand and New Zealanders and perhaps the natural progression of events is that on his return to England, Mitchell became a Member for Parliament for Great Grimsby, 1977-2015.