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Paula Morris writes in the latest issue of Booknotes about the pros and cons of what has happened to New Zealand’s book awards, detailed...

Some of us write book reviews; some of us receive them. Some of us think that it is better to have been reviewed and lost than never to hav...

That’s Peter Williams QC, not nice Peter Williams TV . Nicholas Reid of Reid’s Reader has read Peter Williams QC’s horribly titled mem...

Am home alone – wife away, children at Equidays for the evening show-jumping spectacular  – so while I make larb for dinner I can listen to...

  I have been asked by a few people to update last week’s Pay the man story, so here goes. To recap: an expat client who lives in England h...

For once, a press release worth running: it is from Booksellers NZ with excellent news about the future of the NZ book awards: New Chari...

PopBitch reports : Writing on the wall: How the media self destructs   With Kevin Pietersen and Roy Keane both having books out this l...

I have a client in England – NZ expat, always thought he was a good guy – whose response to my invoice for editing his novel was, “I’ll th...

My Halifax-born mother, 89 with all faculties and iPad intact, found this on the internet, JP Hartley’s Yorkshire dialect greatest hits . S...

The latest issue of Popbitch informs us that:   Bruce Forsyth (born Feb 1928) is five months older than sliced bread (July 1928). ...