Tina Makereti: I’m going to start with the VUP blurb for the book, because it’s not an easy story to put into a few words: ‘In a radically changed Aotearoa New Zealand, Van’s life in the swamp is haza…

I’m delighted to launch Rebecca’s brilliant book on the subject of why we go to Antarctica. One very deft thing that Fifteen Million Years in Antarctica does is to give its readers a sense o…

One of the enduring sources of delight in Elizabeth Knox’s work is a recurring trope. It’s a genre trope that has been stripped back to its bare walls and backfilled with nuance. It is this: an ind…

Tēnā koutou and welcome to this launch of Laura Southgate’s The Boyfriend. Be warned: that title is supremely ironic. Boys, some of whom are friends, are everywhere in this novel: there’s Diete…

Ransack by essa may ranapiri was launched on the 18th of July at Poppies Bookshop in Hamilton. The book was launched by Waikato University Senior Lecturer and writer, Tracey Slaughter. Pick up th…