All week this week we present new verse, to celebrate Phantom Billstickers National Poetry Day on Friday. Today's poet: Sam Hunt of Kaipara.
Veteran sports hack Joseph Romanos reviews My Life, My Fight by Steven Adams with Madeleine Chapman.
We asked former All Black great Bob Burgess to write about a new book on his team-mate Keith Murdoch. But then we changed our mind, and asked his wife Linda Burgess.
Stephanie Johnson suspects the debut novel by English writer Lisa Halliday is "the first flaring of a great talent".
The story of Tupaia's famous illustration of an unnamed Māori trading a crayfish with Joseph Banks is told in a beautifully produced book on Cook's three voyages to New Zealand.
New verse by Auckland writer Carin Smeaton.
The week's biggest selling books at the Unity stores in High St, Auckland, and Willis St, Wellington.
Investigative reporter Nicky Hager reviews the new memoir by one of the world's greatest journalists, Seymour Hersh.
Wyoming Paul is grossed out and engrossed by the new novel by English humourist Caitlin Moran.
Tina Shaw reviews Fiona Kidman's powerful and haunting new novel based on the short life and brutal death of Albert Black, hanged at Mt Eden jail in 1955.
In this edited extract from the new book by Steven Adams, he tells how as a rookie he got NBA veterans ejected, and it wasn't that hard.
New verse by the winner of the 2018 Ockham New Zealand national book award prize for poetry, Elizabeth Smither.
The week's bigget selling books at the Unity stores in Willis St, Wellington and High St, Auckland.
Vincent O'Sullivan admires Caroline's Bikini by Kirsty Gunn, who continues to write and shape novels like no other New Zealand author.
Louisa, Kiran and Jenna are back with all the latest book news, reviews and gossip.
Michael Field reviews a new study of Niue's role in World War I, when Sir Māui Pōmare despatched 150 Niueans to fight in a mysterious war
The Spinoff's Madeleine Chapman co-wrote Steven Adams' autobiography, in shops next week. She tells how she wrote the book alongside an athlete she's known since they were both teens.
