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Some additions and alternatives to this year's NZIER summer reading list.

In 1835, 189 years ago, a gathering of great chiefs of Aotearoa signed He Whakaputanga with representatives of the British Crown. Five years from that date, Te Tiriti o Waitangi was signed between Māo...

Join the Creative Writing programme with a national and international reputation for developing many of New Zealand's best writers.

ACT has warned Creative NZ not "to tempt fate" of future funding with its continued support of a celebrated artist. Andrew Wood fires back - and the Arts minister responds. 

New Zealand's largest book publisher has undergone drastic changes this week, leaving its future role in local publishing uncertain.

The Reformatory by Tananarive Due; The Lost Cause by Cory Doctorow; Him by Geoff Ryman; Audition by Pip Adam

In her second, spine-cracking collection, Jane Arthur wants ‘to get morbid’. Moving with ease between the cerebral and the ethereal she measures her anxieties against a cosmic canvas – taking in...

Let us consider the art of the book launch speech – and read a very fine example of one.

What makes Elizabeth Knox's love story of a wine maker and an angel so extraordinary? A look back at The Vintner’s Luck, published 25 years ago this month.

This is a deeply affecting novel about a grief-stricken outsider who can talk to animals

The Scandalous Confessions of Lydia Bennet, Witch by Melinda Taub; Mothtown by Caroline Hardaker; Saturnalia by Stephanie Feldman; Writing the Future, edited by Dan Coxon and Richard V Hirst; She’s ...

Wellington writer Jake Arthur has been judged runner-up at the 2023 Sargeson Prize for his short story "On Beauty", described by judge Vincent O'Sullivan as a story about "how and why a principled fem...

Poet essa may ranapiri took out the Keri Hulme Award at the Pikihuia Awards held in Wellington last night. This was the first time the award has been offered. It results from Keri Hulme’s wish to su...

The acclaimed musician is also known as one of the best photographer of authors in the country. What makes her so good?<br />

The late and great Hilary Mantel is one of a legion of novelists who for a long time had a book hidden in a desk drawer. The first book she wrote was A Place of Greater Safety, about the French Revolu...