In Memory of Keri Hulme
Kelly Ana Morey on NZ literary icon and ANZL Fellow Keri Hulme
10/01/2022
Kelly Ana Morey on NZ literary icon and ANZL Fellow Keri Hulme
Features and Interviews
Best Books 2021
Top sellers, great reads and the ones that got away.
23/12/2021
Top sellers, great reads and the ones that got away.
Time Out Books’ NZ Bestsellers
For the week ending 19 December 2021
20/12/2021
For the week ending 19 December 2021
ANZL Round Table: Literary Legacies
‘My father would be so disappointed in me.’ Rachael King, Paula Morris, Sarah Shieff and Philip Temple on NZ literary legacies.
14/12/2021
‘My father would be so disappointed in me.’ Rachael King, Paula Morris, Sarah Shieff and Philip Temple on NZ literary legacies.
Time Out Books’ NZ Bestsellers
For the week ending 12 December 2021
13/12/2021
For the week ending 12 December 2021
Time Out Books’ NZ Bestsellers
For the week ending 5 December 2021
06/12/2021
For the week ending 5 December 2021
Time Out Books’ NZ Bestsellers
For the week ending 28 November 2021
29/11/2021
for the week ending 28 November
Fiction Writers’ Round Table 2021
'NZ literature is such a vast and varied thing' : the Ockhams 2021 Fiction Round Table.
03/05/2021
‘NZ literature is such a vast and varied thing’ : the Ockhams 2021 Fiction Round Table.
Ockham NZ Book Awards Finalists
Who’s in - and how you can read extracts.
22/03/2021
Who’s in – and how you can read extracts.
The room where it happened
Ockhams fiction judge Mark Broatch comes clean.
15/05/2020
‘It was impossible to avoid the conspiracy theories’ – Mark Broatch on judging this year’s Ockhams.
Ockham NZ Book Awards: Shocks and Stats
Lockdown Ockhams Shockers: Tom Moody investigates.
14/05/2020
Lockdown Ockhams Shockers: Tom Moody investigates.
Writers’ Round Table | 2020
Rough guides, truest voices: the Ockhams 2020 Fiction Round Table.
13/05/2020
Rough guides, truest voices: the Ockhams 2020 Fiction Round Table.
The Interview: Vincent O’Sullivan
Vincent O'Sullivan on the drive to write, the contradictions of fiction, and the dangers of lingering in the poetry hot-house.
06/04/2020
‘I’m sceptical about any group who want others to regard them as special.’
Listen, Memory
David Howard learns how to appear in Ulyanovsk, City of Literature.
27/02/2020
David Howard learns how to appear in Ulyanovsk, City of Literature.
Our Many Pasts: Historical Fiction
Thom Conroy asks: is historical fiction New Zealand’s defining genre?
28/08/2019
Thom Conroy asks: is historical fiction New Zealand’s defining genre?
A Communist in the Family: Searching for Rewi Alley by Elspeth Sandys
Elspeth Sandys illuminates the life of an extraordinary New Zealander.
28/08/2019
Elspeth Sandys illuminates the life of an extraordinary New Zealander.
Writers’ Round Table | May 2019
Writers' Round Table: the fiction finalists at the Ockham NZ Book Awards discuss influences, indignation, politics and passions.
09/05/2019
Writers’ Round Table: the fiction finalists at the Ockham NZ Book Awards discuss influences, indignation, politics and passions.
The Immersion Method
Maxine Alterio on researching novels at home and abroad.
18/04/2019
Maxine Alterio on researching novels at home and abroad.
The Interview – C.K. Stead
Karl Stead and Mark Broatch discuss crossing lines, carrying on and writing well.
08/03/2019
‘I’m basically cheerful’. Stead at 86, on the work of a lifetime.
Display It Like You Stole It: Letter from London
‘If Oceania is a continent, then it is a continent as complex as Europe’. David Eggleton in London for the Royal Academy of Art’s ‘blockbuster’ show.
06/03/2019
‘If Oceania is a continent, then it is a continent as complex as Europe’. David Eggleton in London for the Royal Academy of Art’s ‘blockbuster’ show.
Why Aren’t You Reading Queer?
Celebrate Pride month with an LGBTQI book.
04/02/2019
Celebrate Pride month with an LGBTQI book.
Letter from Europe
Fiona Kidman on a ‘split personality’ in London and Paris.
31/07/2018
Fiona Kidman on a ‘split personality’ in London and Paris.
The Pony Club
Owen Marshall's 2017 New Zealand Book Council Lecture
25/07/2018
Owen Marshall’s 2017 New Zealand Book Council Lecture
Fiction and Factions: the Political Novel in New Zealand
Fiona Farrell: What makes a work of the imagination ‘political’?
26/05/2018
What makes a work of the imagination ‘political’?
'There’s a kind of heaven that comes from hearing another writer interpret the mysteries of process' - Tracey Slaughter