Exploring the lobsters biology and its history in language, literature and gastronomy, THE LOBSTERS TALE navigates the perils of a life driven by overreaching ambition and the appetite for knowledge, conquest and commerce. In conversation with the text, Bruce Fosters photographs navigate a parallel course of shadows and light, in which the extraordinary textures and colours of the natural world tell a darker story. THE LOBSTERS TALE is a meditation on the quest for immortality on which both artists and scientists have embarked, and the unhappy consequences of the attempt to both conquer nature and create masterpieces. Meanwhile, below the waterline of text and images, a modest voice can be overheard whispering an alternative to these narratives of heroic and doomed exploration. THE LOBSTERS TALE brings together award-winning writer Chris Price and distinguished photographer Bruce Foster. It is the third in the korero series of picture books edited by Lloyd Jones, written and made for grown-ups and designed to showcase leading New Zealand writers and artists working together in a collaborative and dynamic way.