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Kimihia te pukapuka tino pai hei pānuitanga māu ā whai ake. Tirohia ngā rārangi pānui rauhī a Kete.
Melinda Syzmanik reviews five popular picture books that would make excellent gifts.
11 December 2024
Who better to ask for their favourite books from Aotearoa now that 2024 has entered its final chapter? Kete reviewers give their thoughts.
10 December 2024
Hot books summer! Take a look at this selection of biography and memoir straight from the pages of the New Zealand Summer Reading Guide.
8 December 2024
Dive into this list of new and noteworthy local fiction direct from the pages of the New Zealand Summer Reading Guide.
19 November 2024
The annual Storylines Notable Books list, representing the very best books for children and young adult published in the last twelve months, has been released. Dive into the readin...
13 November 2024
Dive into this exciting list of the ten bestselling Aotearoa NZ books for tamariki and rangatahi (3 to 30 November 2024).
7 November 2024
We’ve studied the programme and compared notes with Kete’s reviewers to create a reading list for some of this weekend's Verb events.
7 November 2024
Here they are! Ten bestselling Aotearoa NZ books for tamariki and rangatahi (6 October to 2 November 2024).
7 November 2024
New memoir and personal stories from some of Aotearoa's best known personalities, trailblazers, icons, sporting legends, writers and more.
24 October 2024
Browse the list 2024 PANZ Book Design award winners.
19 September 2024
Rārangi pānui: Te Wiki o te Reo Māori 2024.
18 September 2024
Ten (or eleven) poetry books, in no particular order, from the last ten years. Collections that ought to be read, that ought to rock your world, and which say something important.
22 August 2024