Shaun Barnett

The 2026 Storylines Margaret Mahy National Awards Day

Barbara Uini reflects on being on a first-time attendee at this celebration of literature for young people The 2026 Storylines Margaret Mahy National Awards Day, held at the Auckland National Library on the last Sunday of March, was a full…

Review: a posthumously published dystopia

Alex Adank reviews outdoors author and photographer Shaun Barnett’s middle grade novel A dystopian novel, set in New Zealand, for kids?! That’s several boxes ticked for me, so it’s no surprise I was thoroughly hooked by the new middle-grade fiction…