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Chronicle of hidden Whanganui history up for book award

The General Non-Fiction winner will be announced at the Ockham awards ceremony on May 17.

Stranger than Fiction: 'Genre' novels at the Ockham NZ Book Awards

The Ockhams longlist: “a bit like the new kids hanging out with the prefects"

Winner of Booker Prize awarded Collegiate's highest honour

Shehan Karunatilaka won the 2022 Booker Prize with his second novel.

Sue McCauley finds joy in writing and her new novel

Sue McCauley has a new target - the reality of growing old.

Celebrity Book Club: The best celeb memoirs of 2022, ranked

Five celebrity memoirs to add to your reading list if you haven't already.

Histories of Hate: New book reflects on Christchurch mosque attacks

An edited extract of landmark work, Histories of Hate, the radical right in Aotearoa NZ

Margaret Atwood on life as a widow: ‘He’s still with me - not in the usual way’

Times: Margaret Atwood on her life, her partner and book bannings in America.

Welcome to BookTok: Gen Z’s virtual book club taking the social sphere by storm

Gen Z’s virtual book club is taking the social sphere by storm.

Eleanor Catton on her new novel Birnam Wood - and the crisis facing fiction

NZ's Booker Prize winner on why it took a decade to pen her new modern thriller.

Why no one will publish Virginia Giuffre's memoir

Giuffre accused the late Jeffrey Epstein of forcing her to have sex with the Duke of York.

Censorship and eradication: Has George Orwell's frightening prediction come true?

Opinion: The censorship of history is an attempt to enforce a single viewpoint.

Have Prince Harry and Meghan ‘turned on each other’?

Tensions are reportedly brewing within the Sussex camp after a bruising few weeks.

Why Prince Harry and Meghan might not attend King's coronation

The couple are "weighing up" whether to fly to UK for May 6 ceremony amid myriad concerns.

Critics reject changes to Roald Dahl books as censorship

Puffin Books will remove colourful language from new publications of the author's books.

Rewritten: Roald Dahl kids' books remove 'fat', 'ugly', 'offensive' references

Children's author wrote many classics which have been rewritten to be more "inclusive".

Convicted drug smuggler reveals ‘harsh’ reality of 7 years in Thai prison

Holly Deane-Johns breaks her silence about what she suffered inside the notorious jail.

King Charles refusing to give in to Harry's coronation demands

Daniela Elser: The King is refusing to budge in showdown with Harry.

Opinion: 'As dangerous as it is absurd' - in defence of JK Rowling

New York Times opinion: The campaign against Rowling is as dangerous as it is absurd.