
Character first: The 2025 Ngaio Marsh Awards finalists
Page-turning tales that explore people and place fill the 2025 Ngaio Marsh Award shortlists. ...
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Learn MorePage-turning tales that explore people and place fill the 2025 Ngaio Marsh Award shortlists. ...
Continue reading'I think it would be very good to be proper friends with Olivia Galletly. If her debut book THE HUNGRY COOK is anything to go by, not only would her fridge be full of good things to snack on, but she’d be an extremely hospitable host...'
Sarah Ell talks to Kete about her latest non-fiction book, THE SPIRIT OF A PLACE, a history of the important heritage site Th...
Continue readingHachette Aotearoa New Zealand, Little Moa, and the Margaret Mahy Estate are thrilled to announce Emma Collicott as the winner...
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Continue reading'Harbours are liminal spaces—neither fully land nor sea—offering temporary shelter within constant movement, much like the cu...
Continue readingA short capsule review and poem excerpt from Mikaela Nyman's THE ANATOMY OF SAND....
Continue readingMelanie Kwang is charmed by Sophie van Waardenberg's long-awaited first poetry collection, NO GOOD. ...
Continue reading'The Venetian Blind Poems reminds us that finding our own peace doesn’t mean blinding ourselves to reality and turning from t...
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In their first poetry collection DEAR ALTER, Jiaqiao Liu explores 'the ambiguities, paradoxes and kinships between human and...
Continue readingIt's Phantom Billstickers National Poetry Day! Tracey Slaughter talks to Jesse Mulligan in this expert feature on poetry. ...
Continue readingDuncan Sarkies talks to Mark Amery on Culture 101 about the 'joy of discovery' in writing, and his upcoming appearances at WO...
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Claire Williamson reflects on 'the perfect gentle call to action' in Sonya Wilson's new children's novel THE SECRET GREEN, se...
Continue readingZelle and Callum used to be best friends, but they haven't spoken in three years: not since the tragedy that wrenched them ap...
Continue readingHere they are! Ten bestselling Aotearoa NZ books for tamariki and rangatahi (15 June to 12 July 2025)....
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