From flour mills to pavlovas, and cookbooks to whitebait - whet your appetite for local food knowledge with our online quiz.
Reading locally in 2022
Moata runs through her 2022 reads by Kiwi authors - a mix of fiction and memoir - and what she's looking forward to reading in 2023.
Celebrate International LEGO Day 2023 and Brick your Book at the Library
International LEGO Day is on 28 January 2023. You have the chance to win a prize in our Brick your book competition.
Best WORDs of the festival
Our library WORD correspondents have picked their favourite quotes from the WORD Christchurch 2022 sessions they attended.
Rest in Peace, Queen Elizabeth II
Queen Elizabeth II, Britain's longest reigning monarch, has died. Learn more about her life, and that of her son, King Charles III.
WORD Christchurch 2022: Faith and The Faraway Near: Ottessa Moshfegh
Ottessa Moshfegh beams in from Amsterdam to talk about darkness, faith, and her novel, Lapvona.
WORD Christchurch 2022: The spec-fic kids are alright
Moata reports back from an engaging kōrero from three great Kiwi spec-fic writers; Whiti Hereaka, Sascha Stronach and Cassie Hart.
WORD Christchurch 2022: Humans of New Zealand
Three New Zealand novels. Three New Zealand authors. Is that enough in common for them to share a WORD Christchurch session?
On not being James Joyce – Mana wāhine: Influence and craft
Moata reports back from the eminently quotable WORD Christchurch session featuring three outstaning Māori writers.
WORD Christchurch 2022: Whose life is it anyway?
Moata reports back on how Megan Dunn, Clementine Ford, Ruth Shaw and Victor Rodger made everyone cry during a session about memoir writing.
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