'My mother believed that every part of the city was dangerous after dark, but most of all she said this about Barbadoes Street.'

What happens when something that is supposed to be so good for us goes wrong?...

What happens when something that is supposed to be so good for us goes wrong?

What happens when something that is supposed to be so good for us goes wrong?

From Dave Dobbyn to small presses to memoir, WORD Christchurch packs a punch....

Marco is stressed. On one hand, he’s a cook in a progressive city bar, a married father of three, doing all he can to raise his boys right. On the other (slightly burnt) hand, his life is chaos. Every...

An essay by Wairarapa author John Summers on our faded belief that the dead come back to haunt us.

When John Summers moved to a small town in the Wairarapa and began to look closely at the less-celebrated aspects of local life – our club rooms, freezing works, night trains, hotel pubs, landfills – ...

Winner of the Hubert Church Prize for Fiction, 2023 Ockham NZ Book Awards Welcome to the Repertory Apartments—where scenes of tenderness and trouble, music and magic, the uncanny and the macabre play ...

When John Summers moved to a small town in the Wairarapa and began to look closely at the less-celebrated aspects of local life – our club rooms, freezing works, night trains, hotel pubs, landfills – ...

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In Pip Adam’s extraordinary, humane book Audition, the stars are both a dystopian place and a site of uncharted possibility.

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Huia were last seen alive in 1907, according to official records. But the New Zealand bird artist Raymond Ching tells another story. A Wellington taxidermist killed a trio of the birds in 1912, Ching ...