Book news
- Ockham results
Congratulations to all the winning and shortlisted authors, and especially to Becky Manwatu for her sweep of Best First Fiction and the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction.- Auckland Writers Festival 2020 Winter Online Series
Watch live via the Festival’s YouTube and Facebook channels, and then on their website.- WORD Christchurch now running October 30 - 1 November
They need your help to stage this year's festival! WORD is a charitable trust, and it's now easier than ever to donate. More information here.
VERB Wellington confirmed for 6-8 November, with Litcrawl on 7 November
NZ Bookstores experiencing boom in Level 2 - Guardian article
The price of literature: writers take on Government over fair pay by Kelly Dennett
"This proposition that writers just do their work for love is a scurrilous attack on the integrity of all authors," says Dame Fiona Kidman.
Book reviews
KD: A Terrible Country by Keith Gessen (Fitzcarraldo Editions)
LK: The Secret History by Donna Tartt (Penguin)
JT: Ripiro Beach by Caroline Barron (Bateman Books)
Not books
KD: Los Angeles is Burning by Anna Rankin on Newsroom
LK: The Good Place on Netflix and The Wondrous Adventures of Mittens
JT: Nat’s What I Reckon on YouTube
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