The authorised biography of New Zealand's longest-serving female MP was co-written by her former press secretary. Unsurprising, then, that it focuses on her triumphs.
The deadline for our lavish Ockhams giveaway has rolled on by and it’s time to announce who won.
Chloe Blades on the raw, complex and unabashedly feminist new novel by the author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.
New work by Ashleigh Young from her upcoming collection How I Get Ready.
A saddle sore, a teal bridesmaid's dress and the Ngāruawāhia High School hall: how Marilyn Waring became the National candidate for Raglan.
New verse from poet and playwright Renee Liang.
Unity and The Spinoff are very proud to announce the arrival of this new monthly feature. Because we love kids, and we love books, and we’re really sick of buying shitty books by mistake and having to read them 87,000 bedtimes in a row.
The only published and available best-selling book chart in New Zealand is the top 10 sales list recorded every week at Unity Books’ stores in High St, Auckland, and Willis St, Wellington.
Turns out two of our most-loathed bush dwellers – supplejack and ongaonga – are at once way more annoying and way more fascinating than we gave them credit for.
All of the books shortlisted for the country’s shiniest literary gongs at this year’s Auckland Writers Festival are boxed up in some publicist’s back room, just waiting to be shipped to YOU!!
As Wellington and Waikanae face a winter without two beloved libraries, Marion McLeod reviews The Library Book, a hymn to a library that burned.
Playwright and Spinoff culture editor Sam Brooks talks to Val Emmich, author of Dear Evan Hansen, about the process of adapting a smash Broadway musical into a book.
The only published and available best-selling book chart in New Zealand is the top 10 sales list recorded every week at Unity Books’ stores in High St, Auckland, and Willis St, Wellington.
New poetry from Wellington-born writer Ursula Robinson-Shaw.
Extract: How Wendy Parkins unravelled and put herself back together, sort of.
Marion McLeod reviews Late in the Day, a "smooth and sinuous and subtle" new novel by Tessa Hadley
Poet Steven Toussaint on the explosive, triumphant wizardry that is happening here and now.
