by bookadmin | Dec 20, 2013 | Featured, New Zealand, News
New Zealand novelist Eleanor Catton made history when her 832-page sophomore novel The Luminaries won prestigious literary award the Man Booker Prize. Judges of the annual prize marvelled at Catton’s ability to turn the modern day novel on its head and used words like...
by bookadmin | Aug 22, 2012 | Contemporary, Featured, New Zealand, News
New Zealand’s diverse literary tradition owes as much to its rich Māori and Polynesian heritage as it does to its pioneering history. Before the printed word, story-telling and oratory captured the stories of Aotearoa New Zealand. The first book was published in New...
