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Stay connected to the world of books in New Zealand with the lively mix of news and views on books, writers and writing served up in our quarterly members’ magazine. 

The latest issue:

Available in print and digital editions with your Book Council membership. Read our tasters from Greg McGee and Paula Morris online now.


  • In Praise of Anonymity: Greg McGee, aka crimewriter Alix Bosco, argues we should trust the tale and not worry about the teller. Read it here now.
  • Paula Morris on her new novel and taking liberties with history. Read it here now.
  • Life on the Street: what does the future hold for the local bookshop
  • Plus new short fiction from Breton Dukes and cartoon from Dylan Horrocks


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In the last issue:

Available free online now


  • Ashleigh Young
  • Neil Cross
  • Margaret Mahy
  • Ant Sang
  • Sarah Quigley
  • Maurice Gee
  • Anna Jackson



Liberally Challenged

Paul Litterick on the Kahui publishing controversy and what it says about the book world

Are We All As Good As Dead?

Ashleigh Young on the personal perils of writing memoir


Soapbox

Neil Cross asks, what is the point of the novel?

Searching the Bookshelves

Rachel O'Neill enjoys some of the high notes issuing from recent local poetry


My Space

A tour of Margaret Mahy's writing room reveals animate and inanimate inspirations

Graphic Fiction

The Insufferable Indignity of the Queue Order Decree by Ant Sang


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