Wanaka — David Vass, one of New Zealand’s leading mountaineers, has been named as the recipient of the Nankervis/Bamford NZ Mountain Book of the Year for 2023 for his book Not Set in Stone.
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Mountain Film Festival
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Wanaka — The organisers of the 2022 NZ Mountain Film & Book Festival are thrilled to announce the winners of the annual Book Competition.
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Mountain Film Festival
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Wanaka — Entries in the annual NZ Mountain Book Competition closed on 31 March and the organisers are delighted to report that they have received their highest ever number of submissions.
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NZ Mountain Film Festival Charitable Trust
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Hamilton — Entries for the Sargeson Prize, New Zealand’s richest short-story competition, open on April 1 with first prize in the Open Division now worth $10,000. The competition, named for celebrated New Zealand writer Frank Sargeson, is in its fourth year and is sponsored by the University of Waikato.
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University of Waikato
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"It was bright moonlight – good bombing light – and once we had to stop and put out our lights as a Fascist aeroplane flew over.
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Ali Jones PR and Communications
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FOUR OUTSTANDING novels have been announced as the finalists for the 2014 Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Crime Novel, which will be presented on 30 August following The Great New Zealand Crime Debate event at the WORD Christchurch Writers & Readers Festival.
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Craig Sisterson
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Lose that glass half empty approach to relationships and fill your cup with forever after, with the inspirational new relationship self-help guide Fairytale Love: How To Love Happily Ever After from renowned writer and relationship expert, Leanne French.
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Impact PR: Fleur Revell
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Fifteen years after he disappeared from the page, maverick policeman Tito Ihaka’s critically acclaimed return from exile in Death on Demand has now won Paul Thomas the prestigious Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Crime Novel for 2013.
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Craig Sisterson
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A pair of book lovers have teamed up with the aim of creating NZBooklovers.co.nz, which they believe will be New Zealand’s biggest website dedicated solely to books and reading.
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JJ McConnachie
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Christchurch — Tennis legend Andre Agassi is coming to Paper Plus Eastgate on Wednesday 23 January for a book signing of his award winning and critically acclaimed autobiography Open.
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PPR New Zealand
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The Loveswept imprint of Random House Inc., one of the top six US publishers, has published the debut novel of Auckland writer Wendy Vella.
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Relish Communications
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Wellington City — A poem that folds out like a concertina, a graphic novel that comes in a large box, a sports book with a cover made of fake grass, a knitting book for nerds - these are just some of the weird and wonderful items on the shelves of our libraries.
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Wellington City Council
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Hastings — Friends of the Hastings District Libraries are holding a big, two day book sale at the Hastings Library on Tuesday 22 January from 9am to 8pm & Wednesday 23 January from 9am to 5pm.
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Hastings District Council
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Wellington — Denis Welch will be the New Zealand writer in residence 2013 at Randell Cottage.
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Kathryn Carmody
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A book to be launched this week at The University of Auckland takes an entirely new perspective on issues of violence towards women, and is therefore able to offer insights that readers will not have encountered before.
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University of Auckland
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Wellington City — Get advice from top NZ entrepreneurs and leaders in the book, Gifts of Wisdom; book to be launched at a Global Entrepreneurship Week event in Wellington, Friday 16th November.
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Kelly McLuckie
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Kiwi airmen in the Battle of Britain – one of World War II's defining conflicts – made a remarkable contribution relative to the size of their contingent, says a Massey University historian.
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Massey University
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Dunedin — The Board of the University Book Shop (Otago) Ltd is pleased to announce the appointment of Phillippa Duffy to the role of General Manager.
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Kathryn Carmody
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Hastings — Janet Luke, Landscape Architect and author of Green Urban Living, is the guest speaker at this year’s Publishers’ Book Expo.
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Hastings District Council
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Stories of New Zealanders who have chosen to live self-sufficient lifestyles, off-the-grid, are the focus of a new book from Craig Potton Publishing releasing this month.
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Kathryn Carmody
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