Lessons from decades of aid work in the Middle East, Indonesia and the Pacific are wrapped up in Chris Stuart's debut crime novel.
Physical isolation may be the way to eliminate Covid-19, but it could come at a high cost to mental health.
All week this week we revisit the great poet James K Baxter on the occasion of a new book of letters. Today: a selection of the letters written in 1969.
Morgan Godfery wonders exactly what the point is of New Zealand bowing to a monarch "of a rain-soaked island off the north-western coast of the European mainland".
The full list, with mild critique, of the 2019 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards longlist.
Cat Connor of the Writers Plot Bookshop in Upper Hutt backgrounds the birth and development of New Zealand's only bookstore devoted exclusively to Kiwi authors.
An essay in praise of Amazon by Kirsty Wright, a Southland erotic romance author who is 'killing it' thanks to sales generated by the online empire.
Catherine Robertson's latest novel What You Wish For has raced to the top of the best-seller charts – but what she really, really wants is to win a prize for being funny.
Ashleigh Young talks about her feelings as she steps into her new role as poetry editor at The Spinoff Review of Books.
Madeleine Chapman co-wrote basketball star Steven Adams' autobiography. She tells how she wrote the book alongside an athlete she's known since they were both teenagers.
We asked former All Black great Bob Burgess to review a new book on his team-mate Keith Murdoch. But then we changed our mind, and asked his wife Linda Burgess to write whatever she wanted about rugby.
The top ten best-sellers of 2018 at the Unity store in High St, Auckland
All week this week we present the 20 best books of the year. Today: the 20 best books of non-fiction.
All week this week The Spinoff Review of Books presents the best books of the year. Today: the best 20 books for kids.
An essay by Sarah Forster from Booksellers New Zealand about the threat that Amazon-owned Book Depository pose to bookstores - and, ultimately, readers.
The Monday Extract: "Stevie", who works in the sex industry as a self-described "trans boy", talks to social historian Caren Wilton.
The Monday Extract: Wellington writer John-Paul Powley pulls together Parihaka, imperialism, capitalism, and catered lunches at education conferences in a searching essay on Māori achievement.
