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Learn the tricks for a more joyful life: An extract from Dr Kerry Burnight’s Joyspan

Joyspan is about living better, so what do you need to do that?

Celebrated Kiwi novelist releases 'edgy and sinister' YA take on dark academia

The Vintner's Luck author Elizabeth Knox releases first new YA fiction in 12 years.

Setting the record straight on the Kiwis who supported Britain’s era of Antarctic exploration

Book of the day: South by South: New Zealand and the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration

Book of the day: Buckeye by Patrick Ryan

Able tale of small-town life spanning big moments in US history needs more messy humanity.

Top 10 bestselling NZ books: September 6

After just two days on sale, there's a new number one NZ book.

Book of the day: Hooked by Fiona Sussman

Abrasion aplenty in a return story of police duo investigating a murder in Mangawhai.

Grant Robertson: ‘Everybody I see looks better when they stop in politics than they did when they were in it’

Post-politics, post-Covid, post-panic attacks: Former finance minister Grant Robertson.

A Particularly Nasty Case: Debut novel from This Is Going To Hurt's Adam Kay reviewed

For his first novel, ex-doctor Adam Kay mixes medicine, mystery and murder with humour.