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Poetry Shelf Breathing Room: Love by Jenny Powell
Jenny Powell’s latest poetry collection, Biology Field Trip: a different way of seeing has been published by Cold Hub Pr...
Posted: Wednesday Jul 01, 2026
Book review: Beyond the Border by Owen Marshall
Sally Battson of The Next Chapter Bookshop in Wanaka reviews Beyond the Border by Owen Marshall, published by Quentin Wi...
Posted: Wednesday Jul 01, 2026
From Emerging Writer to Published Author: Congratulations, Anna Woods
Congratulations to Anna Woods, Caselberg Trust Elizabeth Brooke-Carr Emerging Writer 2022, who has just published her ne...
Posted: Wednesday Jul 01, 2026
On BookHub's Radar
Read BookHub's upcoming books that you should know about including 'The Body and the Blood' by our very own Molly Cright...
Posted: Monday Jun 29, 2026
A full house for Biology Field Trip!
Last night the cold stayed firmly outside while a warm crowd gathered on the 4th floor of the City Library to celebrate ...
Posted: Friday Jun 26, 2026
Maybe Baby
Emma Neale's newest novel, Maybe Baby, tells the story of a grieving widower determined to honour his and his late wife'...
Posted: Monday Jun 22, 2026
Book of the Week: ‘By page 25 she is dead’
An outrageous and courageous new novel by Dunedin author Emma Neale
Posted: Friday Jun 19, 2026
Poetry Shelf celebrates Landfall Tauraka 251 with nine readings
Landfall Tauraka 251 is a gift package of poetry, fiction, artwork, an interview, a terrific winning essay and reviews. ...
Posted: Friday Jun 19, 2026
Book review: Islands Ever After by Majella Cullinane
Lynn Freeman reviews Islands Ever After by Majella Cullinane, published by Quentin Wilson Publishing.
Posted: Thursday Jun 18, 2026
'New Zealand Maid' by Ian Dougherty (Saddle Hill Press, 2026) out now!
Prolific Dunedin author Ian Dougherty has turned his attention to the feats of a long-distance walker in his latest book...
Posted: Wednesday Jun 10, 2026
Poetry Shelf celebrates Airana Tikao’s Pepeha Portal – a review and a reading
To read Pepeha Portal is uplifting. The poetry offers an experience that nourishes the air I breathe, the physical groun...
Posted: Wednesday Jun 10, 2026
New book highlights youth perspectives
Layers of Identity is a collection of writings by rangatahi aged 8 to 24 on the theme of whakapapa, genealogy, lineage a...
Posted: Thursday May 21, 2026
Today on Write Spot
Award-winning Dunedin writer Emma Neale's latest novel, Maybe Baby, explores one man's drive to have the child that he a...
Posted: Wednesday May 20, 2026
Pastoral Care by John Prins (Otago University Press, 2025) wins the Hubert Church Prize for Fiction Best First Book
Congratulations John and Otago University Press!
Posted: Wednesday May 20, 2026
Fierce with Happiness
Read Siobhan Harvey's article reviewing Hiding Places by Lynley Edmeades (Otago University Press, 2025) and Eddie Sparkl...
Posted: Thursday May 07, 2026
Upcoming Titles from Otago University Press
Otago University Press have got lots of exciting new titles coming out over the next couple of months. Here’s some for y...
Posted: Friday Apr 24, 2026
'Maybe Baby' by Emma Neale (Bateman Books, 2026) Out Now!
Maybe Baby is a touching, funny and thought-provoking love story with a glimmer of the speculative.
Posted: Thursday Apr 23, 2026
As told by The Clean
Journalist and poet Richard Langston had loved Dunedin band The Clean for decades and knew there should be a book. But h...
Posted: Tuesday Apr 07, 2026
Read NZ Book Review - The Terrible Trio: The (not so) Superheroes by Swapna Haddow (Scholastic, 2025)
Reviewed by Claire Cheeseman, Teacher, Laingholm Primary School, Auckland
Posted: Tuesday Apr 07, 2026
Read NZ Book Review: Everything But The Medicine by Lucy Hagan (Massey University Press, 2025)
Reviewed by Petra Verbeek Deputy Principal Hamilton Christian School
Posted: Tuesday Apr 07, 2026
Greta Gerwig’s Barbie - Popular Culture, Cinema, and Gender
Edited by Hilary Radner and Rebecca Stringer (Bloomsbury Academic, 2026) - available now for pre-order, launching in May...
Posted: Wednesday Apr 01, 2026
Ruth Dallas: A writer’s life by Diana Morrow and This Moment, Every Moment: Ruth Dallas, Collected Poems
Re-discovering 'the brilliant and necessary Southern Aunt of New Zealand letters'.
Posted: Wednesday Mar 25, 2026
UBS weekly bestseller list is here!
Trust other Booklovers: these are worth reading.
Posted: Wednesday Feb 25, 2026
Review: Landfall Tauraka, edited by Lynley Edmeades
'It is dense. It is modern. It contains some of the best of Aotearoa’s new and not so new writers...'
Posted: Wednesday Jan 21, 2026
The MacLeods epic overland journey
In 1962, Dunedin farmer Alan MacLeod said to his wife Joan and six kids, 'how about going for a drive'?’
Posted: Friday Dec 12, 2025
Landfall Tauraka Review December
Eric Trump reviews: Everything but the Medicine: A doctor’s tale by Lucy O’Hagan (Massey University Press)
Posted: Friday Dec 12, 2025
Poetry Shelf celebrates ...
Te Whāriki: Reading Ten New Poets from Aotearoa edited by Anna Jackson, Dougal McNeill and Robert Sullivan (Auckland Uni...
Posted: Thursday Dec 11, 2025
Book of the Week: Give the patient a comfortable chair
Dr Eileen Merriman savours a memoir by Dr Lucy O’Hagan
Posted: Wednesday Dec 10, 2025
'How about going for a drive?' turned into an epic global adventure
Hannah Bulloch has written a book about her grandparents decision to take six kids around the world on a house truck.
Posted: Tuesday Nov 25, 2025
Review: Ruth Dallas: A Writer's Life, by Diana Morrow
Reviewed by Graham Reid
Posted: Wednesday Nov 19, 2025
Kōrero Each to Each
Elizabeth Heritage reviews Te Moana o Reo | Ocean of Languages edited by Michelle Elvy and Vaughan Rapatahana (The Cuba ...
Posted: Wednesday Nov 19, 2025
Celebrating Landfall's 250th issue
‘I wrote partly because Landfall was there’Writers on their first publications in New Zealand’s oldest literary journal.
Posted: Thursday Nov 13, 2025
New book: 'The Tear Bottle' by Annemarie Jutel
Last Friday University Book Shop Otago hosted Annemarie Jutel talking about her fantastic new graphic novel The Tear Bot...
Posted: Tuesday Nov 04, 2025
Len Cook: South Dunedin to Whitehall - As told to Les Hill
Published by Mary Egan Publishing, November 2025
Posted: Tuesday Nov 04, 2025
Wednesday’s Children by Robin Hyde
Wednesday’s Children returns to print in this beautifully designed edition, celebrating the enduring work of Robin Hyde.
Posted: Monday Nov 03, 2025
Mana by Tāme Iti (Allen & Unwin Aotearoa NZ, 2025)
Iconic Māori activist, artist, and performer Tāme Iti shares his extraordinary life, defined by resistance, resilience, ...
Posted: Monday Nov 03, 2025
Author Talk | Lynley Edmeades with Kiran Dass
Scorpio Books, Christchurch - Thu 27th November 2025 | 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Posted: Thursday Oct 30, 2025
Over the Road: an original work by Peter Olds
With 10 illustrations from woodcuts & a portrait of the author by Wayne Seyb (Cold Hub Press, October 2025)
Posted: Tuesday Oct 28, 2025
MINDING HIS OWN POETRY COMPOSING BUSINESS a biography of Peter Olds
By Roger Hickin (Cold Hub Press, October 2025)
Posted: Tuesday Oct 28, 2025
History and archaeology 'chose me' - Professor Atholl Anderson
Professor Atholl Anderson (Ngāi Tahu), archaeologist and historian, and author of The Welcome of Strangers: The History ...
Posted: Monday Oct 27, 2025
Whāia Te Taniwha: Korero from Te Waipounamu
With contributions by our very own Waiariki Parata-Taiapa.
Posted: Wednesday Oct 22, 2025
Good old Landfall gets older
NZ’s best and most distinguished literary journal celebrates its 250th issue
Posted: Friday Oct 17, 2025
New Zealand arts and literary journal marks its 250th issue
LFT editor Lynley Edmeades spoke to Kathryn Ryan on Nine to Noon, RNZ, this morning about our 250th issue and how Landfa...
Posted: Thursday Oct 16, 2025
Everything But the Medicine by Dr Lucy O'Hagan
Number 1 seller for NZ independent book shops!
Posted: Friday Oct 10, 2025
Celebrating 250 issues of art and writing from across the motu
This month marks the release of Landfall Tauraka 250: Spring 2025 edited by Lynley Edmeades
Posted: Friday Oct 10, 2025
Book review: The Anatomy of Sand by Mikaela Nyman
Harry Ricketts reviews The Anatomy of Sand by Mikaela Nyman, published by Te Herenga Waka University Press.
Posted: Friday Oct 03, 2025
Book Review - Olveston: Portrait of a Home by Jane Ussher & John Walsh
Reviewer: Karen McMillan - Massey University Press
Posted: Thursday Oct 02, 2025
Poetry Shelf review
A Shell-Print of Waves – Aramoana Poems ed David Eggleton and Michelle Elvy (At the Bay | I Te Kokoru, 2025)
Posted: Wednesday Oct 01, 2025
Out Soon! The Black Thistle by Beatrice Hale and N.J. Mills (Kellas Cat Press)
The sequel to The Resolute Heart, by Beatrice Hale
Posted: Tuesday Sep 23, 2025
Book review: Olveston by Jane Ussher and John Walsh
Leah McFall reviews Olveston: Portrait of a Home by Jane Ussher and John Walsh
Posted: Tuesday Sep 16, 2025
Happy publication day for these three fantastic books!
Posted: Thursday Sep 11, 2025
Olveston: Portrait of a home by Jane Ussher and John Walsh
Ten Question Q&A with John Walsh and Jane Ussher
Posted: Monday Sep 08, 2025
ANZRB Review: Short/Poto edited by Michelle Elvy and Kiri Piahana-Wong
A bilingual 'celebration of flash fiction' that offers brevity, wit and weight.
Posted: Friday Sep 05, 2025
ANZRB Review: Ten Thousand Nights by Yvette Thomas and The Anatomy of Sand by Mikaela Nyman
Two poets navigate 'the natural world and the ephemerality of its loveliness'.
Posted: Friday Sep 05, 2025
Happy publication day to Wednesday’s Children
A new edition of Robin Hyde’s captivating feminist novel
Posted: Monday Sep 01, 2025
Happy publication day to Nor the Years Condemn
A beautiful new edition of Robin Hyde’s poignant post-war novel
Posted: Monday Sep 01, 2025
Kete Books Review: Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook 2025
Reviewed by Savannah Patterson
Posted: Wednesday Aug 27, 2025
Kete Books Review: The Anatomy of Sand, by Mikaela Nyman
Reviewed by Erica Stretton
Posted: Tuesday Aug 26, 2025