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Water and wings: new natural history for kids

Kirsteen Ure examines two new books on natural history for kids, from much-beloved authors Giselle Clarkson and Donovan Bixle...

Review: Lessons on Living, by Nigel Latta

Nigel Latta's final book was released on the day he sadly died of terminal cancer. Angela Walker reflects on the LESSONS ON LIVING as a final gift.

Call for judges: 2026 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults

The organisers of the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults are calling for expressions of interest from memb...

Review: Bird of the Year

'The book is designed to be nibbled in bite-sized sections or consumed all at once, with the text nicely broken up by an arra...

New Books

Ngā Pukapuka Hou

Check out the latest books from our amazing NZ authors...

Giving Birth to My Father

by Tusiata Avia

The Floral Dream

by Olivia McCord

Keith and the Kitten (Keith Vs Queenie, Book #1)

by Elaine Bickell

The Food Farm

by Angela Clifford

Where In All The World

by Vanessa Croft

Riding the Echo Down

by Peter Ryan

Pipi and Pou and the Haunted Forest

by Tim Tipene

Beneath Our Feet

by Jack Hartley

Between

by Sue Fitchett

Homes of this Decade: 2015-2025

by Clare Chapman

New Zealand Rustic

by Coughlan Kate

Gold Under The Manuka

by Bill Mouat

This week's Aotearoa NZ Bestsellers

Ngā Pukapuka Pai Rawa Atu i Aotearoa i tēnei wiki

View this week's bestselling Aotearoa NZ adult fiction, adult non-fiction and children's books...

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Kete's Calendar of Events

Te Maramataka Taiopenga o Kete

An essential calendar of events for all things bookish in Aotearoa New Zealand...

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Reviews Ngā Arotakenga

Read our independent reviews of the latest books from Aotearoa.

Review: Speaking My Language Te Kōrero i Tōku Reo

'It feels like a rare peek behind the curtain of what the mission of learning a new language can entail, particularly when th...

Review: Dead Ends, by Laura Borrowdale

'These are hard stories to ‘like’ but on the terms they have set, the parameters of the worlds Borrowdale has conjured, they ...

Tūmahi Māori: He ara whakamārama ki ngā tūmahi Māori nā Hēmi Kelly i arotake

'Hei whakakapi ake, he mārama te āhua o tā Hone whakatakoto i ngā kōrero. Kia pono, he uaua te wetereo, engari kāore ia e wha...

Short | Poto nā Savannah Patterson i arotake

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Review: Kings of this World, by Elizabeth Knox

SR Manssen is taken with the teenagers' quick wit and strength in Elizabeth Knox's latest YA novel KINGS OF THIS WORLD....

Review: Hooked Up, by Fiona Sussman

Kirsteen Ure considers the psychological harm of a reality TV programme setting in Fiona Sussman's latest crime novel, HOOKED...

Interviews and ExtractsNgā Uiui me ngā Tīpakohanga

Author Q&As and extracts from up coming NZ books.

'Te reo Māori is how I speak to the world around me': Airana Ngarewa

Extract: Feijoa, by Kate Evans

'A rapidly shifting, unstable world': Jo Randerson

ListenWhakarongo Mai

Listen to author interviews, reviews, and book news. Plus, read reviews about audiobooks by authors from Aotearoa.

Rural life and recipes: Nadia Lim's favourites

Chef Nadia Lim, whose new book NADIA'S FARM KITCHEN is out now, shares her thoughts on rural life on Playing Favourites at R...

Gay in the 1960s: Autofiction by Jeffrey Buchanan

Jeffrey Buchanan talks to Emile Donovan about his new book, THE BIRDS BEGAN TO SING, which won the 2024 Michael Gifkins Award...

Listen: Jiaqiao Liu on robots and how they're everywhere

In their first poetry collection DEAR ALTER, Jiaqiao Liu explores 'the ambiguities, paradoxes and kinships between human and...

Children and Young AdultsNgā Pukapuka Tamariki

The latest picks for children's picture books, junior fiction and young adults.