FANZA was delighted to partner with the New Zealand High Commission in London to celebrate the UK launch of The Book of Guilt, the ninth novel by award-winning New Zealand author Catherine Chidgey.

Australian author Lisa Medved makes a dazzling debut with The Engraver’s Secret - an art history thriller that spans centuries, weaving the richly imagined world of 17th-century Flanders with a gripping modern-day treasure hunt in Antwerp.

A landmark addition to the limited scholarship on one of Australasia’s most iconic bands, Crowded House’s Together Alone offers a deeply intertextual, personal and passionate exploration of the group’s seminal 1993 album.

FANZA warmly congratulates celebrated Aotearoa New Zealand poet and academic Selina Tusitala Marsh ONZM, FRSNZ on her historic appointment as the first ever Commonwealth Poet Laureate.

Australian author Michelle de Kretser has been awarded the 2025 Stella Prize for her bold and inventive novel Theory & Practice. The announcement made on Friday 23 May positions de Kretser as one of the most celebrated literary voices in Australia today.

New Zealand writer Kate Evans has brought her celebrated book Feijoa: A Story of Obsession and Belonging to UK readers, with the title now available through major booksellers including Waterstones.

New Zealand writer Tom Baragwanath has been shortlisted for a 2025 CrimeFest Award for his acclaimed novel Paper Cage.

Fremantle Press has acquired world rights to Ningaloo: Australia’s Wild Wonder by Australian author Tim Winton. With watercolour illustrations by Cindy Lane, the book focuses on Western Australia’s Ningaloo region.

Rewi: Āta haere, kia tere is a tribute to the late New Zealand architect Rewi Thompson (Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Raukawa), a visionary thinker who believed that great architecture is crafted through careful consideration of people and place. This book brings together a breathtaking range of his projects, from conceptual dreamscapes to one-of-a-kind homes.

FANZA is delighted to share an exclusive interview with Australian author Elyse John, whose beautiful, gender-bending Greek myth retelling, Orphia and Eurydicius, will be published in the UK on 28 March.

Three masterpieces by the legendary Australian author Helen Garner have been published in the UK to great fanfare. Garner has been a literary institution in Australia for decades. The Atlantic dubbed her 'the Joan Didion of Australia.'

The Artist's Secret by Australian author Alexandra Joel is now out in the UK. Joel is the former editor of Harper’s Bazaar and of Portfolio – Australia’s first magazine for “working women” – and has been a regular contributor to The Australian and The Sydney Morning Herald Good Weekend Magazine.

Wifedom by Australian author Anna Funder is among the 16 books in the running for the £30,000 prize, launched last year to redress the relatively low numbers of women recognised in nonfiction prizes.

Newly published in the UK, Greta & Valdin is this year’s entry in the contemporary fiction category, Hot European Postgrad Novel — think languid, vibey, literary romances about underfed but over-holidayed history of art students set in Dublin, Stockholm or Gothenburg. But now, thanks to the New Zealander Rebecca K Reilly’s zany, screwballin’ debut novel, the trend has gone global.

We're thrilled to share that Australian author Richard Flanagan's latest non-fiction work, Question 7, a compelling exploration of the choices we make in love and the ensuing chain reactions, will be published in the UK on 30 May 2024.

Selected as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists 2023, Eleanor Catton has given a new interview to the literary magazine - video below - and an extract from her next book, Doubtful Sound.

Donna Hay, Australia’s most trusted and bestselling cookbook author, returns with a follow up to her much-loved bestselling classic, Even More Basics to Brilliance. 

Recorded live at the 2023 Sydney Writers’ Festival, celebrated actor - and FANZA arts patron - Sam Neill shares stories from his memoir Did I Ever Tell You This, a wild and witty account of a career in film and TV spanning half a century.