Quiz: NZ Booklovers Awards 2026
The finalists for the NZ Booklovers Awards were announced yesterday, which gives us the perfect excuse for the first quiz of the year! Read on to test your knowledge of the finalists … Questions Answers
Elizabeth Knox
Review: Kings of this World
Sarah Forster reviews a much-anticipated new novel for young adults by Elizabeth Knox. When you start a new Elizabeth Knox book, you know you are in for a magical, immersive ride. Kings of this World delivers. I read this book…
Aotearoa Book Memories: Dreamhunter
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…
Terrors of a kind: an interview with Frances Hardinge
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,…
A review of the latest YA fantasy by Laini Taylor
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…