One of the UK’s leading literary industry talents has been announced as the new artistic director of Auckland Writers Festival, Waituhi O Tāmaki. The new move
A ‘powerfully compelling’ novel narrated by a cheeky magpie called Tama has flown off with New Zealand’s top literary prize. The Axeman’s Carnival, by Ngāruawāhia-based writer
New Zealand author Eleanor Catton has made Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists list.
Australian author Michelle de Kretser’s novel, Scary Monsters, has won this year’s Rathbones Folio Prize for fiction. Described by the judges as “a work of beautifully
English-born Australian publishing entrepreneur, businessman and writer Tony Wheeler has won the Edward Stanford Award for Outstanding Contribution to Travel Writing. Co-Founder of Lonely Planet, Tony
The Tattooist of Auschwitz, the bestselling novel by New Zealand-born, Melbourne-based writer Heather Morris is being turned into a six-part TV series. The co-production with Britain’s
The highly anticipated fifth novel from ‘Australian queen of crime’ author Jane Harper, Exiles, hit the shelves in the UK on 2 February. Arriving with great
Where are we now, ten years on from Julia Gillard’s “misogyny speech” – the speech that stopped us all in our tracks? The new book from
This month, hundreds of writers will be writing and rewriting their stories before submitting them for the 2023 Commonwealth Short Story Prize. The prize is free
The literary world is abuzz with the thrilling news that Australian author Kate Morton’s hugely anticipated new book, Homecoming, will be published in the UK on
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