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Tell All Thursday begins again for 2025. Kete talks to Elena de Roo, children's author and poet, who recently released WIZARD...
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Learn MoreTell All Thursday begins again for 2025. Kete talks to Elena de Roo, children's author and poet, who recently released WIZARD...
Continue readingTeachers and students, get ready for an incredible line-up of seventeen writers from Aotearoa and around the world, joining us at the Aotea Centre from Tuesday 13 to Thursday 15 May. Filled with inspiring sessions and workshops for Upper Primary to Secondary schools, you won’t want to miss out.
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Maddie Ballard's debut book is a gentle sewing-focussed memoir. Claire Williamson writes about the contemplation of making an...
Continue reading'Giles skillfully employs a dual timeline structure, weaving past and present to illuminate the choices and regrets that shap...
Continue reading'Ngā kete e toru o te mātauranga, the three baskets of knowledge, are used to structure the book, and to loosely divide Māori...
Continue reading'A man and a woman, complete strangers, meet at an exhibition in upstate New York on a cold snowy night. At the art gallery t...
Continue reading'One of the strengths of this book is the weaving of personal stories with official data and stories about food are particula...
Continue readingAnuja Mitra admires the empathy and reminder of our shared humanity within Emma Neale's new poetry collection, LIAR, LIAR, LI...
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Chair of the New Zealand Book Awards Trust Nicola Legat joins Emile Donovan of RNZ to celebrate the 2025 Ockham New Zealand B...
Continue readingDenniston Rose author Jenny Pattrick discusses writing for stage with RNZ. ...
Continue readingNat Baker reviews the audiobook of Make it Make Sense, a conversational book written and narrated by Lucy Blakiston and Bel H...
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Continue reading'It brims with fast-paced action and mystery, shady villains, ambiguous strangers, feisty kids, one sadly messed up kid, and ...
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