A tribute to a literary master of everything
Steve Braunias
Act’s arts spokesman once watched a musical
A scornful interview with Act’s arts spokesman who knows next to nothing about the arts
Newsroom welcomes the Secret Diary
Steve Braunias introduces his much-loved satirical Secret Diary series to Newsroom
This week’s bestselling books – April 26
The latest Nielsen BookScan New Zealand bestseller list, plus win tickets to the Auckland Writers Festival
‘I was in awe of Germaine Greer’s face, her neck, her hands’
Sue Kedgley on Ngāhuia te Awekōtuku on Germaine Greer
This week’s bestselling books – April 19
The latest Nielsen BookScan New Zealand bestseller list, with occasional pithy remarks
Rhapsody in feijoa
A new book on feijoas inspires recipes for feijoa cakes, feijoa jam, feijoa ice-cream and feijoa-related alcoholic stupor
This week’s bestselling books, April 12
The latest Nielsen BookScan New Zealand bestseller list, with a fantastic recipe for feijoa crumble
Eleanor or Emma, the People’s Choice
Birnam Wood, There’s A Cure For This, and Pet – one of them will be named book of the year as voted by ReadingRoom readers
This week’s bestselling books – April 5
The latest Nielsen BookScan New Zealand bestseller list, with occasional pithy descriptions
The bestselling books at Easter
The latest Nielsen BookScan New Zealand bestseller list, described by Steve Braunias
Book of the Week: Tauranga noir
A writer on Outrageous Fortune produces a scary novel about armed gangs running wild