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P is for Predicament : Tim Martin in the Daily Telegraph in his A to Z of forgotten books uses Ronald Hugh Morrieson ’s third novel fo...

Jacinda Ardern in the dogbox: she poses beside a stature of Hercules Morse (“big as a horse”), part of Tauranga’s Hairy Maclary project...

From the 25 June edition. Spelling, grammar and punctuation are all exactly as published: Waves of darkness I wonder how many of us Ham...

A guest post from Sam Elworthy, president of the Publishers’ Association of New Zealand, in reply to my comments on two of the judges bein...

Today the Publishers Association of New Zealand, aka PANZ, announced the shortlists in its 2014 Book Design Awards . Congratulations to all...

To Tauranga last weekend to do two sessions at Escape!, their mini literary festival. It was very good – well-organised, a wide range of au...

The Wintec Press Club meets for lunch three times a year in Hamilton: guests are the students of the Wintec journalism course, important me...

From the 29 May edition. Spelling, grammar and punctuation (or lack of it) are all exactly as published: More surveillance Who watches ...

Breaking news from London: Steve Braunias complains about the dawn’s early light being too early at 4:30am. First-world problem: no sympat...

Toby Young in the Spectator explains why so many Brits get top jobs in the US media: because they are “ghastly knuckle-dragging troglodyt...