What do Take Two, The Last Secret Agent and Nine Girls have in common? They’re all topping this week’s Aotearoa NZ bestsellers list for their category! Find out what else is on this week’s list (21 to 27 April 2024)!

Nine Girls takes the lead for April! Take a look at the ten bestselling Aotearoa junior fiction and young adult books for 24 March to 20 April 2024.

View this week’s bestselling Aotearoa NZ adult fiction, adult non-fiction and children’s books (14 to 20 April 2024).

We’re delighted to announce that writer, reviewer and WORD Festival Programme Director Kiran Dass is set to join Kete as Editor in Chief in September. We’re also excited to announce that writer and reviewer Erica Stretton, fresh from running National Poetry Day, has taken on Kete’s interim editorship.

This week’s giveaway is a two-book prize pack for outdoor enthusiasts: a copy of Tramping in New Zealand and Tongariro National Park: an artist’s field guide ! We also announce the winner of last week’s giveaway: Amma.

Here they are the this week’s bestselling Aotearoa NZ adult fiction, adult non-fiction and children’s books (7 to 13 April 2024).

This week’s giveaway is the ‘evocative’ and ‘lush’ Amma by Saraid de Silva! We also announce the winner of last week’s giveaway: The Secrets of the Little Greek Taverna.

Māori owned, independent publisher HUIA was named the Children’s Publisher of the Year for Oceania at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair this week. The award is in recognition of a publisher whose books stand out for their creativity, innovation and the quality of their editorial choices.

The 2024 Storylines Margaret Mahy National Awards Day was held on Sunday and included the presentation of the Storylines Margaret Mahy Medal to Elizabeth Jones and the announcement of the winners of the 2024 Storylines manuscript and illustration awards.

View the week’s bestselling Aotearoa NZ adult fiction, adult non-fiction and children’s books (31 March to 6 April 2024).

Take a look at the week’s bestselling Aotearoa NZ adult fiction, adult non-fiction and children’s books (24 to 30 March 2024).

The March list is in! Take a look at the ten bestselling Aotearoa junior fiction and young adult books for 25 February to 23 March 2024.

This week’s giveaway would make a great read for the long weekend! We have a copy of The Secrets of the Little Greek Taverna to giveaway. We also announce the winners of last fortnight’s prize draw for a copy of Ngā Kaihanga Uku: Māori Clay Artists.

Mark your calendars! This year’s nationwide celebration of poetry is scheduled for Friday 23 August. Registrations and seed funding applications are now open, and event organisers across the motu are encouraged to get involved!

Not-for-profit organisation Copyright Licensing New Zealand is launching MyCreativeRights, a new platform to help Aotearoa New Zealand's creatives better manage their intellectual property.

Books Alive – the programme of large-scale events that bring hundreds of kids at a time in touch with finalist authors in the annual New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults (NZCYA) – will expand to a third regional centre in 2024, thanks to funding from literature sector supporter, the Mātātuhi Foundation.  

Do you know, or are you a bookseller superstar? Hachette Aotearoa wants to send one brilliant bookseller to the 2024 Auckland Writers Festival – one of the highlights of the NZ literary scene.

The 2024 Margaret Mahy Illustration Prize is open and this year local illustrators are invited to bring The Great Man-Eating Shark to life with colour, adventure and humour.

The NZ Booklovers Award winners were announced today. Books by Nick Davies, Eileen Merriman, David Hill, Sacha Cotter, Carlos Lehnebach, Claire Regnault, Rebecca Rice, Isaac Te Awa and Rachel Yates were named winners of the 2024 awards.

Just in time for Easter, this week’s bestsellers list is out! Take a look at the bestselling Aotearoa NZ adult fiction, adult non-fiction and children’s books (17 to 23 March 2024).