by bookadmin | Nov 18, 2013 | Contemporary, Featured, News, South Africa, UK
It was a great loss to hear of the death of Doris Lessing, however she had lived a great and creative life in her 94 years. Lessing won the Nobel-prize for Literature in 2007 for her books, among more than 50 and most noticeably The Golden Notebook and The Grass is...
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...