Hear from the Dream Team behind the cover of my favourite New Zealand book cover of 2023.
Best book covers of 2023 – My pick of Aotearoa’s finest
Each year I handpick my favourite New Zealand book covers. Have a look at the winner, the top 10, and plenty of stylish books.
“It’s ours!”: Happy 5th birthday, Tūranga and the Discovery Wall
Tūranga is 5 today. Take a look back at opening day, and hear from Tūranga librarians about working here.
Tote-ally awesome: NZ Bookshop Day Saturday 7 October 2023
Donna is excited about NZ Bookshop Day and the possiblity of new books as well as a tote by Xoë Hall with the slogan "Books are my bag."
WORD Christchurch 2023: Writing on the margins
This was a wide-ranging discussion about "re-indigenising through our words, decolonising and re-indigenising the page". This naturally leads to stepping away from the margin, the edge, into the centre - a place of power.
WORD Christchurch 2023: In absence lies essence – Roy Montgomery and Clementine Valentine
Black is the colour and the theme - absence, essence, death, and endurance. Roy Montgomery and Clementine Valentine play music, and then Roy reads poems from his new book Endurance.
WORD Christchurch 2023: Life, death, and doing the right thing – The Quiet Hero: Andrew Bagshaw
Philip Matthews and Sue and Phil Bagshaw explore the life of Andrew Bagshaw - heroism, life, death, and the truly extraordinary lengths someone can go to do what's right.
WORD Christchurch 2023: The Music Book Club
Music makes the WORD go round - Donna reports back on the Music Book Club with the Unlikely Librarian Mike and Marlon Williams.
WORD Christchurch 2023: Cabinet of Curiosities, Chamber of Horrors – from Balaclavas to Ghost Poo
Billy Joel, The Balaclavas, Animal sex, Architecture, & Aotearoa's Native Plants - Donna opens the door to this year's WORD Cabinet of Curiosities.
WORD in papers, WORD in books: WORD Christchurch Festival 2023
Donna's getting ready for WORD - making a list and checking it twice. Here are her picks, and some quick reviews of Festival authors she's read this year.
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