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Madeleine Chapman: Our PM is the finals MVP we need right now
Watching our prime minister handle the Covid-19 response is like watching an NBA star burst out from the pack.
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Watching our prime minister handle the Covid-19 response is like watching an NBA star burst out from the pack.
The Unity Books bestseller chart for the week ending 20 March, plus a note on how best to clean books, by Siouxsie Wiles.
At 16, apropos of nothing, Elizabeth Engledow set herself a Herculean task: read all the classics. Six years in she wondered, would we like to publish a few reviews?
The only published and available best-selling indie 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.
A new poem by Mohamed Hassan.
Damien Wilkins' novel Aspiring is out today; it sprang from this very Salinger-y short story, which we remembered reading in Annual and are delighted to publish again here.
A little bookshop on High Street just scooped a massive prize. We caught up with Jo McColl to celebrate.
Elon Musk is flinging long, screamingly bright strings of satellites into space – into our sky – with the noble goal of revolutionising internet access. But what about we lose in the process?
A new essay by Linda Burgess.
"Darren only drank Ranfurly Draught. Only in the large 440ml cans, and only at room temperature."
A recent, previously unpublished poem by Auckland poet Murray Edmond.
The only published and available best-selling indie 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.
A new poem by Wellington poet Sam Duckor-Jones.
Sam Brooks reviews Japanese novel Before the Coffee Gets Cold – which Aucklanders, inexplicably, will not stop buying.
Ladies and gentlemen we have a horse race. Books editor Catherine Woulfe offers up some odds.
Today Dame Fiona Kidman publishes All the Way to Summer, a new collection of beloved stories. Here, in an essay especially for The Spinoff, she looks back on her life of love.
What’s the best way to get adults reading? Get them reading when they’re children – and there’s no better place to start than the Unity Children’s Bestseller Chart.
