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Today on Write Spot: Mira Harrison - Doctor and Writer
Mira Harrison has released her first novel, One In Three, based on her experiences as a junior doctor in NHS hospitals i...
Posted: Wednesday Dec 18, 2024
Book review: Perch edited by Michelle Elvy
Ash Davida Jane reviews Perch edited by Michelle Elvy published by At the Bay | I te Kokoru
Posted: Wednesday Dec 18, 2024
Landfall 248: Spring 248 is here!
Landfall 248: Spring 2024 is dedicated to the late Vincent O’Sullivan, one of Aotearoa New Zealand’s most influential wr...
Posted: Tuesday Dec 10, 2024
Reducing sickness anxiety for children
Demystifying the world of bacteria for children is the goal for one Dunedin medical laboratorist.
Posted: Friday Dec 06, 2024
My Sore Throat – Demystifying Medical Laboratory Science for Children
Manu Scripts Publishing announces with great pride the launch of its second book, My Sore Throat, written by Dr Heather ...
Posted: Tuesday Dec 03, 2024
David Hill reviews Owen Marshall's new collection of short stories, NEW STORIES, published by Penguin
David Hill considers the masterful writing and predominantly male protagonists in Owen Marshall's latest book, the lacon...
Posted: Friday Nov 29, 2024
Ōtepoti Writers Lab – it’s been a HOOT!
Final meeting of the Octagon Poets Collective for 2024 and Book Launch!
Posted: Tuesday Nov 26, 2024
A 'masterclass in the art of the short story'
Sally Blundell reviews NEW STORIES by Owen Marshall
Posted: Wednesday Nov 20, 2024
Māori on the home front
Listen: Lachy Paterson and Angela Walhalla, editors of Te Hau Kāinga and Raupanga, companion books that explore the tran...
Posted: Monday Nov 18, 2024
Pre-order Cultures of Sustainable Peace: Conflict Transformation, Gender-Based Violence, Decolonial Praxes - Edited by: Hyab Teklehaimanot Yohannes, Alison Phipps, Tawona Sitholé
50% discount code: CSP50 - Expires: 31 December 2024
Posted: Friday Nov 15, 2024
Keep Telling Of Gaza by Khawla Badwan and Alison Phipps is out now!
Find links on how to purchase the print version or the ebook here.
Posted: Friday Nov 15, 2024
Implementing a global health programme: Smallpox and Nepal by Susan Heydon
Get 30% off this title when you order through the Manchester University Press website - pre-orders available now!
Posted: Monday Nov 11, 2024
Poetry Shelf review
Faces and Flowers Poems to Patricia France by Dinah Hawken (Te Herenga Waka University Press, 2024)
Posted: Thursday Nov 07, 2024
Book review: New Stories by Owen Marshall
Harry Ricketts reviews New Stories by Owen Marshall published by Penguin Random House NZ
Posted: Thursday Nov 07, 2024
'Te Hau Kāinga' and 'Raupanga', two companion books which tell the story of profound transformation in Māori life during the Second World War.
Available in stores from 7 November 2024
Posted: Wednesday Nov 06, 2024
Out March 2025! Available now for pre-order!
Books of Mana: 180 Māori-Authored Books of Significance, Edited by Jacinta Ruru, Angela Wanhalla and Jeanette Wikaira
Posted: Wednesday Nov 06, 2024
Book Review: Pretty Ugly by Kirsty Gunn
Unsettling stories from a writer who dares to challenge and confront us.
Posted: Tuesday Nov 05, 2024
'Grief Momentarily Suspended' - Genevieve Scanlan reviews:
Meantime by Majella Cullinane (Otago University Press), Tidelines by Kiri Piahana-Wong (Anahera Press) and Chew the Brig...
Posted: Monday Nov 04, 2024
Doctor’s tale has striking parallels
Dr Mira Harrison-Woolrych’s debut novel taps into doctors’ “primal fear that you won’t be able to do everything you can ...
Posted: Friday Nov 01, 2024
Otago poets praised at prestigious International awards
Two University of Otago alumni have won awards in the prestigious Laurel Prize for poetry.
Posted: Wednesday Oct 30, 2024
Bruce Bisset pulled together decades of his poetry to fill a 122-page book
Listen here
Posted: Wednesday Oct 23, 2024
Happy publication day to Pretty Ugly by Kirsty Gunn
Out now! In stores or online
Posted: Thursday Oct 17, 2024
Landfall Review - Marilynn Webb: Folded in the hills (Dunedin Public Art Gallery, 2023)
A Space to Operate If You Were a Woman Artist
Posted: Friday Oct 11, 2024
Corpus
The Twisted Chain by Jason Gurney (Otago University Press, 2024)
Posted: Thursday Oct 03, 2024
Coming in May 2025! The Book of Guilt by Catherine Chidgey
A spellbinding, haunting, profound novel by the twice winner of the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction, and one of o...
Posted: Wednesday Oct 02, 2024
Koe: An Aotearoa ecopoetry anthology
A fantastic review by Chris Reed of Koe: An Aotearoa ecopoetry anthology edited by Janet Newman and Robert Sullivan for ...
Posted: Friday Sep 27, 2024
Kete Books Interview: Queens of Crime Vanda Symon and Charity Norman
Kete is excited to feature this conversation between Charity Norman and Vanda Symon, crime writers extraordinaire, where...
Posted: Wednesday Sep 25, 2024
Sam Shepherd is back!
Kete Books shares an extract from PREY, Vanda Symon's latest mystery about Detective Sam Shepherd and the long-unsolved ...
Posted: Tuesday Sep 10, 2024
'But then ... the almost true story of an overdue book'
Award winning author Swapna Haddow is celebrating the release of her first New Zealand picture book by visiting Dunedin ...
Posted: Tuesday Sep 03, 2024
University Book Shop weekly Top 5
Featuring koe: An Aotearoa Ecopoetry Anthology
Posted: Friday Aug 30, 2024
Celebrating Art and Science: flows like water Book Launch
Weaver, sculptor, photographer and curator Pam McKinlay recently celebrated the launch of her latest book, flows like wa...
Posted: Friday Aug 23, 2024
Otago's medical hero
'Frontline Surgeon: New Zealand Medical Pioneer Douglas Jolly' is written by Mark Derby (right) and published by Massey ...
Posted: Thursday Jul 18, 2024
Book Review: Claire Williamson reviews NELL, a new novel by Penelope Todd
'Eleanor Preston – aka Nell – is born in 1897 on a South Island sheep farm homestead. During childhood, her world is the...
Posted: Thursday Jul 18, 2024
The Mahy Questionnaire
Featuring former librarian and award-winning writer and poet Elena de Roo. Her latest title Ring Ting Tūī—a cheeky rhymi...
Posted: Thursday Jul 11, 2024
Q&A with Megan Kitching
NZ Poetry Day chatted with Megan Kitching about what she enjoyed most about writing her award-winning debut, At the Poin...
Posted: Thursday Jul 04, 2024
Academy of New Zealand Literature reviews AT THE GRAND GLACIER HOTEL by Laurence Fearnley
Nature is volatile and isolating in an evocative novel 'aimed at the senses'
Posted: Tuesday Jul 02, 2024
James Norcliffe reviews STILL IS, Sir Vincent O'Sullivan's posthumous collection of poetry
'STILL IS has an added poignancy because so many of the poems would have been written with the poet knowing that his end...
Posted: Wednesday Jun 26, 2024
At the Bay Latest Books
Check out the latest At The Bay books and pre-order now
Posted: Thursday Jun 20, 2024
Flows Like Water by Pam McKinlay
Flows Like Water is a celebration of the art-sci practice of Pam McKinlay, weaver, sculptor, photographer and curator.
Posted: Monday Jun 17, 2024
Landfall Journal Book Review
Knowledge Is a Blessing on Your Mind: Selected Writings, 1980–2020 by Anne Salmond (Auckland University Press)
Posted: Wednesday Jun 12, 2024
Landfall Journal Book Reviews
Tung by Robyn Maree Pickens (Otago University Press), Calamities! by Jane Arthur (Te Herenga Waka University Press) and ...
Posted: Wednesday Jun 12, 2024
Book review
Holly Walker reviews Landfall 247: Autumn 2024 Edited by Lynley Edmeades published by Otago University Press.
Posted: Wednesday Jun 12, 2024
Book Review: At the Grand Glacier Hotel, Laurence Fearnley
'At The Grand Glacier Hotel is a tender and beautifully written story about learning to live again...'
Posted: Friday Jun 07, 2024
Book review: At The Grand Glacier Hotel by Laurence Fearnley
Lynn Freeman reviews At The Grand Glacier Hotel by Laurence Fearnley published by Penguin Random House NZ.
Posted: Tuesday Jun 04, 2024
Poetry Shelf noticeboard:
A reading to launch ‘Still Is’ by Vincent O’Sullivan
Posted: Friday May 31, 2024
Poetry Shelf review and reading:
Iona Winter’s In the shape of his hand lay a river
Posted: Thursday May 30, 2024
New novel out later this year
Congratulations to Wendy Parkins, who recently completed and defended her second PhD, this time in creative writing. Her...
Posted: Wednesday May 29, 2024
Book review: Meantime by Majella Cullinane
Harry Ricketts reviews Meantime by Majella Cullinane published by Otago University Press
Posted: Friday May 24, 2024
Poetry Shelf
Katūīvei – Contemporary Pasifika Poetry from Aotearoa New Zealand
Posted: Friday May 24, 2024
Read an extract from 'Heart Stood Still' on Kete!
'Heart Stood Still' is a record of Miriam Sharland's journey towards finding healing in the world's natural beauty, a be...
Posted: Monday May 20, 2024
Kete Review
OTHERHOOD, edited by Alie Benge, Lil O’Brien and Kathryn van Beek
Posted: Monday May 20, 2024
Book Review: Marilynn Webb - Folded in the Hills
'Marilynn Webb (1927-2021) faced three barriers to success as an artist in the 1960s: she was Māori (Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Kahu...
Posted: Wednesday May 15, 2024
Poetry Shelf review
Hopurangi-Songcatcher Poems from the Maramataka by Robert Sullivan
Posted: Tuesday May 14, 2024
Whakataukī of the Week with Robert Sullivan
Robert Sullivan is a poet and an associate professor in creative writing at Massey University who has just published his...
Posted: Tuesday May 14, 2024
Five Wee Pūteketeke
Delightful book illustrated by our very own Jo Pearson
Posted: Friday May 10, 2024
Explaining Otherhood - childless by choice or circumstance
Listen to the RNZ interview here
Posted: Thursday May 09, 2024