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Rhythm & spines: Literary festivals go rock ‘n’ roll

Ireland’s literary history sets the scene for celebrating writers and writing.

Book of the day: Pastoral Care by John Prins

Debut story collection offers insightful takes on masculinity and Pākehā identity.

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.

A fan of Agatha Christie novels? These two new books are worthy adversaries

Christie-like whodunnits from two Antipodean crime writers.

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.

Book of the day: Empathy by Bryan Walpert

There's an addictive edge to Bryan Walpert's otherwise literary novel.

The healing nerve? Why the vagus nerve is medicine’s next big hope

The vagus nerve is increasingly seen as key to controlling deadly inflammation.

Top 10 bestselling NZ books: August 23

The local books we've been buying this week.

Book of the day: The Middle of Nowhere by Rosemary Baird

Building the Manapōuri hydro plant was a remarkable feat of ingenuity and endurance.

Book of the day: The Birds Began to Sing by Jeffrey Buchanan

Coming-of-age mystery vividly brings to life regional New Zealand in the 1960s.