Book of the Week: Holly Walker reviews a compelling gothic Kiwi novel
Holly Walker reviews a moody, gothic novel set in the brooding countryside of the Wairarapa.
Books
The real reason why women go to book clubs
'The book is the catalyst, the key.' An essay by Scarlett Cayford about the secret society of book clubs.
Confessions of a comedy writer who spent six weeks covering an election campaign
A memoir by Dave Armstrong about how he got it into his head to jump in his rusting Japanese car and spend six weeks covering the 1996 election campaign - and then wrote a book about it.
The Friday Poem – political verse
Political verse by Dunedin writer Diane Brown.
The Unity Books best-seller chart for the week ending September 1
The best-selling books at the two best bookstores known to science.
Book of the week: Charlotte Grimshaw on a brilliant portrait of small, fat Katherine Mansfield
Charlotte Grimshaw reviews A Strange Beautiful Excitement, Redmer Yska's superb telling of Katherine Mansfield's childhood and teenage years in Wellington.
Fight like a girl: A conversation with Clementine Ford
Australian feminist author Clementine Ford is in town this week for Shifting Points Of View at WORD Christchurch. Leonie Hayden talked to her about feminist parenting, the power of the Twitter thread and how to start a revolution on your own.
Revisiting the strange case of The Spin, the New Zealand political novel by Anonymous
Who wrote the novel about a vain, womanising, and corrupt New Zealand political party leader?
Review: The potentially redundant book adaptation of prime ministerial podcast series ‘The 9th Floor’
Like the podcast, but a book! While that sounds boring and pointless, Duncan Greive controversially argues that it’s actually good.
A brief history of the New Zealand teenager
What does adolescence look like in New Zealand?
