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We’re all in this together

For Auckland Pride Month and in her last year as samesame but different festival Chair, Simie Simpson celebrates the excellence of Aotearoa’s LGBTQIA writers with a must-read book list.

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How to be well read in a year of dragons

For Lunar New Year, Chris Tse has curated a selection of recent books by East and South East Asian writers from Aotearoa to help you to be well-read in a year of dragons!

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Vale Sherryl Jordan, beacon of Aotearoa New Zealand children’s and YA literature

Readers and the Aotearoa book sector are sharing memories of award-winning children’s author Sherryl Jordan who has died aged 74.

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Farewell Renée — literary luminary, playwright and novelist

Renée (Ngāti Kahungunu) ONZM (1929 –2023) one of Aotearoa's notable writers has died peacefully in Wellington.

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‘Tis the season to be reading

“Booksellers around the motu develop a wild look in their eye come December….”

Author and bookseller Olivia Spooner on reading for fun and the books she’s recommending this Christmas.

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‘Do you still want books, I asked them? Are they having much of an impact?’

“People care. I re-learn this every year. Because every year they deliver. Already donated so far this year: beautiful large-format hard cover books like Rivers from Gecko Press, Mat Tait’s award-winning Te Wehenga, and YA wonders like Anne Kayes’ In Our Own Backyard….”

Sonya Wilson, writer and Kiwi Christmas Books founder on how books from Aotearoa can make a difference at Christmas.

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The Diaspora Grows Louder – Books by Aotearoa’s South Asian Writers

‘…compiling and adding to this list has expanded the possibilities of my own reading, and I hope it can do the same for you.’ Saraid de Silva curates a selection of recent books by Aotearoa’s South Asian writers in this special guest editorial timed for the lead up to Diwali.

Dionne Christian 20/09/23 Dionne Christian 20/09/23

Allen & Unwin NZ announces winner of 2023 Fiction Prize

He’s a seasoned creator, writer, show runner and executive producer of many of our most successful TV shows but until now, Gavin Strawhan had never written a book. That’s about to change now he’s won the Allen & Unwin 2023 Fiction Prize.

Dionne Christian 1/06/23 Dionne Christian 1/06/23

Teenager joins established names on shortlist for national children’s book awards

Arlo Kelly was out walking and chatting with his sister on Makorori Beach when he noticed the echo of their voices in the surrounding cliffs. That night, he wrote the first pages of his book Echo.