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Sam Shepherd is back!
Kete Books shares an extract from PREY, Vanda Symon's latest mystery about Detective Sam Shepherd and the long-unsolved ...
Posted: Tuesday Sep 10, 2024
'But then ... the almost true story of an overdue book'
Award winning author Swapna Haddow is celebrating the release of her first New Zealand picture book by visiting Dunedin ...
Posted: Tuesday Sep 03, 2024
University Book Shop weekly Top 5
Featuring koe: An Aotearoa Ecopoetry Anthology
Posted: Friday Aug 30, 2024
Celebrating Art and Science: flows like water Book Launch
Weaver, sculptor, photographer and curator Pam McKinlay recently celebrated the launch of her latest book, flows like wa...
Posted: Friday Aug 23, 2024
Otago's medical hero
'Frontline Surgeon: New Zealand Medical Pioneer Douglas Jolly' is written by Mark Derby (right) and published by Massey ...
Posted: Thursday Jul 18, 2024
Book Review: Claire Williamson reviews NELL, a new novel by Penelope Todd
'Eleanor Preston – aka Nell – is born in 1897 on a South Island sheep farm homestead. During childhood, her world is the...
Posted: Thursday Jul 18, 2024
The Mahy Questionnaire
Featuring former librarian and award-winning writer and poet Elena de Roo. Her latest title Ring Ting Tūī—a cheeky rhymi...
Posted: Thursday Jul 11, 2024
Q&A with Megan Kitching
NZ Poetry Day chatted with Megan Kitching about what she enjoyed most about writing her award-winning debut, At the Poin...
Posted: Thursday Jul 04, 2024
Academy of New Zealand Literature reviews AT THE GRAND GLACIER HOTEL by Laurence Fearnley
Nature is volatile and isolating in an evocative novel 'aimed at the senses'
Posted: Tuesday Jul 02, 2024
James Norcliffe reviews STILL IS, Sir Vincent O'Sullivan's posthumous collection of poetry
'STILL IS has an added poignancy because so many of the poems would have been written with the poet knowing that his end...
Posted: Wednesday Jun 26, 2024
At the Bay Latest Books
Check out the latest At The Bay books and pre-order now
Posted: Thursday Jun 20, 2024
Flows Like Water by Pam McKinlay
Flows Like Water is a celebration of the art-sci practice of Pam McKinlay, weaver, sculptor, photographer and curator.
Posted: Monday Jun 17, 2024
Landfall Journal Book Review
Knowledge Is a Blessing on Your Mind: Selected Writings, 1980–2020 by Anne Salmond (Auckland University Press)
Posted: Wednesday Jun 12, 2024
Landfall Journal Book Reviews
Tung by Robyn Maree Pickens (Otago University Press), Calamities! by Jane Arthur (Te Herenga Waka University Press) and ...
Posted: Wednesday Jun 12, 2024
Book review
Holly Walker reviews Landfall 247: Autumn 2024 Edited by Lynley Edmeades published by Otago University Press.
Posted: Wednesday Jun 12, 2024
Book Review: At the Grand Glacier Hotel, Laurence Fearnley
'At The Grand Glacier Hotel is a tender and beautifully written story about learning to live again...'
Posted: Friday Jun 07, 2024
Book review: At The Grand Glacier Hotel by Laurence Fearnley
Lynn Freeman reviews At The Grand Glacier Hotel by Laurence Fearnley published by Penguin Random House NZ.
Posted: Tuesday Jun 04, 2024
Poetry Shelf noticeboard:
A reading to launch ‘Still Is’ by Vincent O’Sullivan
Posted: Friday May 31, 2024
Poetry Shelf review and reading:
Iona Winter’s In the shape of his hand lay a river
Posted: Thursday May 30, 2024
New novel out later this year
Congratulations to Wendy Parkins, who recently completed and defended her second PhD, this time in creative writing. Her...
Posted: Wednesday May 29, 2024
Book review: Meantime by Majella Cullinane
Harry Ricketts reviews Meantime by Majella Cullinane published by Otago University Press
Posted: Friday May 24, 2024
Poetry Shelf
Katūīvei – Contemporary Pasifika Poetry from Aotearoa New Zealand
Posted: Friday May 24, 2024
Read an extract from 'Heart Stood Still' on Kete!
'Heart Stood Still' is a record of Miriam Sharland's journey towards finding healing in the world's natural beauty, a be...
Posted: Monday May 20, 2024
Kete Review
OTHERHOOD, edited by Alie Benge, Lil O’Brien and Kathryn van Beek
Posted: Monday May 20, 2024
Book Review: Marilynn Webb - Folded in the Hills
'Marilynn Webb (1927-2021) faced three barriers to success as an artist in the 1960s: she was Māori (Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Kahu...
Posted: Wednesday May 15, 2024
Poetry Shelf review
Hopurangi-Songcatcher Poems from the Maramataka by Robert Sullivan
Posted: Tuesday May 14, 2024
Whakataukī of the Week with Robert Sullivan
Robert Sullivan is a poet and an associate professor in creative writing at Massey University who has just published his...
Posted: Tuesday May 14, 2024
Five Wee Pūteketeke
Delightful book illustrated by our very own Jo Pearson
Posted: Friday May 10, 2024
Explaining Otherhood - childless by choice or circumstance
Listen to the RNZ interview here
Posted: Thursday May 09, 2024
May news from AUP!
Featuring two new poetry collections including Hopurangi—Songcatcher Poems from the Maramataka by Robert Sullivan
Posted: Tuesday May 07, 2024
Kete Book Reviews
Ash, Katūīvei: Contemporary Pasifika Poetry from Aotearoa New Zealand and A Different Light: First Photographs of Aotear...
Posted: Tuesday Apr 30, 2024
This week’s bestselling books – April 19
The latest Nielsen BookScan New Zealand bestseller list, with occasional pithy remarks
Posted: Friday Apr 19, 2024
New Book: A Different Light First Photographs of Aotearoa
Edited by Catherine Hammond and Shaun Higgins
Posted: Thursday Apr 11, 2024
Happy publication day to ASH, the much-anticipated first novel by Louise Wallace
This little gem of a book hits bookshops across NZ today!
Posted: Thursday Apr 11, 2024
An incident in Millers Flat
Kyle Mewburn tells the story behind the house she bought after conducting the land transfer in Gore
Posted: Thursday Mar 21, 2024
10 Questions with the editors of Katūīvei
Contemporary Pasifika Poetry from Aotearoa New Zealand
Posted: Wednesday Mar 20, 2024
Book Launch Invitation
You are invited to the book launch of In the shape of his hand lay a river, Iona Winter
Posted: Monday Mar 18, 2024
2024 Robert Burns Fellow, Mikaela Nyman's poetry collection nominated for the Nordic Council Literature Prize
Congratulations to 2024 Robert Burns Fellow, Mikaela Nyman whose poetry collection is nominated for the Nordic Council L...
Posted: Tuesday Feb 27, 2024
'I Held Hands with the Frightened, the Newly Born, the Bereft, the Dying and the Sick'
Michael O’Leary reviews:
Posted: Monday Feb 12, 2024
Book Launched: Praha v me krvi, Jindra Tichá (Echo, 2023)
In her fresh memoirs, Jindra Tichá returns to the Czechoslovak reality of the 1950s and 1960s, her journey to exile in E...
Posted: Friday Feb 09, 2024
Read NZ Author Q&A: Ella West
Ella West, author of six YA novels (including the NZ Book Award shortlisted Thieves), chats writing for young adults, le...
Posted: Wednesday Jan 24, 2024
Whimsical ‘click-a-path’ adventure story out now for summer
The ManyEnding Story is a coming-of-age tale with a difference. Written by Robert Burns Fellow Kathryn van Beek, the fre...
Posted: Tuesday Jan 23, 2024
Extract: ‘The Tiriti Translator’ and ‘Aloneness’ winners of the 2023 Caselberg Trust International Poetry Prize
‘The Tiriti Translator’ by Jilly O’Brien and ‘Aloneness’ by Tim Saunders were announced the dual winners of The 2023 Cas...
Posted: Monday Jan 22, 2024
Local author Swapna Haddow leads popular Festival events for tamariki
The 2023 Dunedin Writers & Readers Festival curated a selection of literary experiences based on the central theme Te Pū...
Posted: Friday Jan 19, 2024
School’s out for summer!
Here’s a great activity to entertain children and help them with their reo. Take a look at this gorgeous colouring page ...
Posted: Tuesday Jan 16, 2024
Xmas: the best poetry books of 2023
Erena Shingade selects the 10 best poetry collections of 2023
Posted: Monday Dec 18, 2023
Adventures in bookland: From paperbacks to first editions
Dunedin collector Tony Eyre looks back on a life with literature
Posted: Tuesday Dec 12, 2023