It's a feeling all booksellers know too well. A book is one of your eternal favourites, you have perfected your sales spiel, you've pressed it into the hands of many a shopper. And then one day, the replenishment order you place never gets fulfilled, and the grim truth dawns on you – it's out of print, and you may never again get the chance to wax lyrical about it to a customer ever again. It made sense, then, to reach out to a bookseller for the second installment of our boo

British writer Frances Hardinge is living proof that books for kids can be as good as books for adults: her last YA novel, The Lie Tree, won the Costa Book of the Year in 2015, beating out serious science biographies, acclaimed poetry collections, a novel by Kate Atkinson and more. Kiwi writer and Hardinge fan Elizabeth Knox leapt at the chance to interview her ahead of her appearances at the Auckland Writers Festival on 20 and 21 May. Frances Hardinge in her signature black

Elizabeth Knox finds a lot to praise about Laini Taylor's inventive, lyrical and compelling new novel, Strange the Dreamer. Laini Taylor, author of the Daughter of Smoke and Bone trilogy, has another series. A duology, the first book of which is Strange the Dreamer. Taylor’s readers have come to expect that her worlds will be strongly realised, inventive, vivid, and full of verve. Strange the Dreamer is no exception. In fact, I think it is even more compelling than those earl