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 Tauranga poet Marcel Currin.
Funeral director Francis Tipene explains why you don't need to splurge on send-offs, how he keeps his act together – and why he cringes when people talk about 'closure'.
Fresh off another Ockhams nomination, here's one of New Zealand's foremost historians on the realities of research – and the end of a golden era at our national archive.
Librarian Rebecca Hastie with a crash course on the fraught task of "weeding" – the systematic removal of resources from a library collection.
JP Pomare's new thriller In the Clearing is set in the Australian bush, with fire forever licking the horizon. He writes here about the view from over there.
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.
Brannavan Gnanalingham reads Rose Lu's groundbreaking essay collection – overlooked by the Ockhams judges – and finds it full of elevating yarns.
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.
Here are the 40 books that made it, followed by some frank thoughts from our books editor.
'I finished This is Pleasure at about 4am on a Sunday. I hadn’t been able to sleep – I’d had an uncomfortable interaction with a powerful person, and it was keeping me awake ...'. Pip Adam on a book that challenged and changed her.
Scarlett Cayford stumbles, ravenous, into a glorious new world
A new fantasy series by Isa Pearl Ritchie focuses on a girl who struggles with anxiety and panic attacks. Here, Ritchie explains how her own childhood sparked Awa and the Dreamrealm.
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 Palmerston North poet Katrina Upperton.
Petra Molloy's novel Chosen Boys is set in dawn-raids South Auckland – and written largely from the point of view of a Samoan mother. We asked Molloy, a palagi, to explain that choice and why she stands by it.
The National Library says it is 'making room for more New Zealand and Pacific stories' and hopes the books it's purging might 'spark joy' for other people. David Larsen considers it a whacking great clear-cutting.
