Books

Te Papa has released a book Women Now: The Legacy of Female Suffrage, to coincide with celebrations of the 125th anniversary of women's suffrage, featuring essays by 12 thinkers and authors marking…

A new book charts the nine times between 1991 and 2018 that apologies have been made for the atrocities that happened at Parihaka, and argues that it's time to stop. In Ko Taranaki Te Maunga… Audio

Kate Camp is the author of six collections of poetry published by Victoria University Press, the most recent of which is The internet of things (2017). She's won the New Zealand Book Award for The… Audio

Books have shaped Jo McColl's life. Raised in Wellington, where she studied the classics, and religious studies under Lloyd Geering, McColl got a job at Unity Books in the Capital straight from… Audio

Tilly Lloyd from Unity Books reviews Asia's Reckoning: the Struggle for Global Dominance by Richard McGregor, which is published by Penguin. "Political journalism: With unrivalled access to archives… Audio

Catriona Ferguson reviews The Occasional Virgin by Hanan al-Shaykh, which is published by Bloomsbury. Audio

David Hill reviews The Stars Now Unclaimed by Drew Williams, which is published by Simon & Schuster UK Audio

Christchurch writer and illustrator, Gavin Bishop won the Margaret Mahy Book of the Year at this year's Children's Book Awards for his beautiful book 'Aotearoa, The New Zealand Story'. It's arguably… Audio, Gallery

Sally Wenley has been reading The House Across the Street by Lesley Pearse. Audio

Kiran Dass from Timeout bookstore reviews Sex & Rage by Eve Babitz which is published by Canongate. Audio

A young Māori traveller becoming a living exhibit in 1840s London is at the heart of The Imaginary Lives of James Poneke - a new novel by Kapiti writer Tina Makereti. Tina Makereti tells Lynn Freeman… Audio

How does this add up? While more and more independent New Zealand publishers are appearing on the scene, new research indicates a growing portion of our population have stopped reading books. A recent… Audio

Author, inventor, entrepreneur, and self-described "eternal optimist", Texas-based Byron Reese started his first business while an undergraduate. He later founded and sold two companies: Hot Data… Audio

The demise of the brick-and-mortar bookshop has long been prophesied, but Unity Books is bucking the trend. Last weekend it opened a brand new store in the Auckland CBD, catering to children's books… Audio

Ralph McAllister reviews The Unpunished Vice: A Life of Reading by Edmund White, which is published by Bloomsbury. Audio

A new partnership between bookworms and Hogwarts launches tomorrow, promising to cast a spell on young men to get them to read. The New Zealand Book Council has partnered with UK publishers of Harry… Audio

Laura Caygill reviews Now We Shall Be Entirely Free by Andrew Miller, which is published by Hachette. Audio

Louise O'Brien from quarterly review periodical New Zealand Books, reviews The Imaginary Lives of James Poneke by Tina Makereti, which is published by Penguin Random House. Audio