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Duck Dynasty patriarch Phil Robertson dies at 79
He was diagnosed with a blood disease and early-stage Alzheimer’s.
'No respect': Bookstore hit by serial vandal targeting women's biographies
The vandal has ripped covers off books about high-profile Kiwi women.
Auckland Writers Festival special: A sneak peek at Dervla McTiernan's gripping new novel
We're celebrating this year's festival with extracts from some authors on the programme.
Auckland Writers Festival special: Duncan Sarkies writes about democracy ... and alpacas
We're celebrating this year's festival with extracts from some authors on the programme.
Auckland Writers Festival special: Family secrets unveiled in Amma
We're celebrating this year's festival with extracts from some authors on the programme.
A Māori ‘Gidget’ Meter Maid goes to the Gold Coast with her ukulele
Read an extract from Ockham NZ Book Awards 2025 winning memoir by Ngāhuia te Awekōtuku.
Simon Wilson: How dense is your love? Confronting the Auckland housing crisis
OPINION: Density done well, speed rules, new road layouts and writers come to town.
Salman Rushdie's attacker faces sentencing for 2022 stabbing
Rushdie was stabbed about 10 times with a six-inch blade during the event.
Auckland Writers Festival special: Pip Adam explores new frontiers
We're celebrating this year's festival with extracts from some authors on the programme.
Auckland Writers Festival special: Debut novel tackles themes of identity and belonging
Read an exclusive extract from Shilo Kino's All That We Know.
Auckland Writers Festival special: Exclusive extract from Catherine Chidgey's new book
The Book of Guilt, Chidgey's ninth novel, is shocking, creepy and compelling.
Auckland Writers Festival special: The debut novel from Auckland lawyer about secrets and betrayal
Read an exclusive extract of Rachel Paris' debut novel, See How They Fall.
Auckland Writers Festival special: Dominic Hoey recalls 1985's biggest events
We're celebrating this year's festival with extracts from some authors on the programme.
Auckland Writers Festival special: Jude Dobson's true story of intrigue and espionage
We're celebrating this year's festival with extracts from some authors on the programme.
'Calamity': New book lays bare 'cover-up' of a steeply declining Joe Biden
'Original Sin' presents evidence that Biden’s cognitive decline began way back in 2015.
‘We need more writers who can just remember’, says Ockham-winning wahine professor
Ngāhuia te Awekōtuku won the General Non-Fiction Award for her memoir Hine Toa.
Auckland Writers Festival special: Uncovering a life at the end of the world
We're celebrating this year's festival with extracts from some authors on the programme.
Ockham Book Awards: All the winners from local literature's biggest night
Wellington author takes fiction's richest prize for a second time.
Watch live: The 2025 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards
The biggest night on New Zealand’s literary calendar is here.
Simon Wilson: Shaun Hendy's warning on the Covid lessons we're still to learn
OPINION: A new book by the Covid modeller is a compulsive read with provocative ideas.
Auckland Writers Festival special: Jacqueline Bublitz’s latest blockbuster
We're celebrating this year's festival with extracts from some authors on the programme.
Author Rachel Paris on ‘massive’ writing failure before hit debut novel
Success of See How They Fall follows the 'devastation' of a failed writing project.
Author Trent Dalton on coming back to NZ and the power of optimism
Dalton said his talk in Auckland last year was the most powerful event he's ever done.
Why embracing mortality and our limitations may help us succeed
Author Oliver Burkeman wants people to look at a different kind of self-help.
The man who made a nation cry: One Day’s David Nicholls heads to NZ
'To sit by myself in a pub a long way from home and read a book, that’s a kind of bliss.'
Why hunger for the Hunger Games is stronger than ever
The latest book in the series is the fastest-selling YA book of the year.
AI book thieves rewrite Holocaust survivor's memoir for profit
Renee Salt's memoir was manipulated and sold on Amazon for $20.