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11/06/2026

“All writing is about walking ghosts. Or perhaps the ghosts walk the writer. Towards our parents or something like them. Towards our sibling and lovers and friends or something like them. Towards the unknown. Towards the edge of a cliff.” As Paris sweeps the narrtor of Levy’s latest fiction al...

11/06/2026

Join us in the Observer newsroom for an evocative Book Club evening with Deborah Levy, one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary literature, as she ...

11/06/2026

A selection of books from our shelves. Click through to find out more: Why Look at Animals? The Dictionary of Animal Languages Animal Joy Animal Stories Naming the Beasts Beast Beasts of England The Dominant Animal

10/06/2026

How did we change from being a place of talking and treaty-making to a place of bloodhed and violence?
2026 winner of the prestigious Ernest Scott Prize.

The pivotal year of 1870 brought down the curtain on the redcoat ga...

10/06/2026

5x15 brings together five outstanding individuals to tell of their ...

10/06/2026

Please join us our upcoming online discussions of these interesting, well-written books. Attendance is free if you have bought the book from us (otherwise tickets are $10). Books can be sent to you by overnight courier or collected from our door in Church Street, Whakatū.

10/06/2026

The acclaimed author and poet talks about her new book, telling the true stories of patients at a derelict Victorian psychiatric hospital – a place in which she might have found herself at a different time

10/06/2026

Forgotten psychiatric patients are resurrected with imagination and compassion in this extraordinary book

10/06/2026

Five authors thank NZ's most artistic book cover designer, Keely O'Shannessy (1976-2026)

10/06/2026

An excerpt from Joseph Trinidad's debut collection of essays, Lucky Creatures.