Everyone wants to join a book club – so Booksellers NZ and the New Zealand Listener have created one. The Listener Book Club will have an in-store, in-print and online outreach all in one...
In a NZ Book Month special, a panel of book-mad 12 and 13-year-olds take over The Good Word for four weeks in March.
With only a little help from presenter Emily Perkins, they are the...
Late last year a copy of Bloody Mama, banned in 1971 by the now defunct Indecent Publications Tribunal, was seized from Book Haven in Newtown, Wellington by the Internal Affairs Department. This...
New Zealand will host the world premiere of the Lonely Planet Year of Adventures TV show (based on the title Year of Adventures) on Saturday, 18 February at 8.30pm.
Featuring on SKY TV the BBC...
Held each year as part of New Zealand Book Month, the Janet Frame Memorial Lecture is delivered by the New Zealand Society of Author’s current President of Honour.
The New Zealand Society of Authors and Auckland Museum are delighted to announce the recipient of the NZSA Auckland Museum Library National Research Grant is Michelle Elvy.
The Auckland Writers & Readers Festival is delighted to once again present its much anticipated Schools’ Programme, in the Aotea Centre in Auckland on Wednesday 9 May and Thursday 10 May...
After a 40 year career in publishing both in New Zealand and the UK, Tony Fisk has announced that he will step down from the role of Managing Director of HarperCollins NZ in April.
The success of last year’s Frankfurt Book Fair continues for Auckland University Press with the sales of rights to Veronika Meduna’s Science on Ice: Discovering the Secrets of...
Wellington writer Fleur Beale has won the 2012 Storylines Margaret Mahy Medal for her outstanding contribution to New Zealand writing for children and young adults.
The award, given annually...
