Travelling to New Zealand: A Readers' Guide
If you're travelling to New Zealand by air, or simply journeying around the country in cyber space, a stop-over via New Zealand literature is a great way to prepare to get the most out of your trip.
While nineteenth-century New Zealand literature relied heavily on British traditions, contemporary writers of both fiction and non-fiction are finding inspiration, ideas and stories in New Zealand's own bicultural history, environment and everyday life.
Whatever your interest in New Zealand, books are the place to start to find out more. Updated every three months, the Book Council Readers’ Guide covers the best of recent and past titles in fiction, history, food, art and sport. Follow the links below to set off under blue skies on an inspirational tour of literary New Zealand.
