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20 best New Zealand books of the 21st century: as chosen by experts

Last month, we enjoyed reading The New York Times Best Books of the 21st century – but were disappointed it included no Australian or New Zealand authors.

The Conversation · Sep 10, 2024

A New Zealand politician can’t name a homegrown novel but Kiwi artists have always conquered the world

ACT arts spokesperson Todd Stephenson’s inability to name a New Zealand author for 20 minutes in an interview has rightfully raised eyebrows

The Guardian - AU · May 3, 2024

Five of the best books about the Victorians

Emma Stone’s Oscar-winning film showed 19th-century Britons as sex-crazed liberals. But it took a while to shake off the puritanical image of the era, as these five books show

The Guardian - UK · Mar 21, 2024

Spring reads 2023: the best new books from Margaret Atwood, Emma Cline and more

The season has changed and a whole new crop of essential books are being unleashed

Evening Standard · Apr 16, 2023

Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists – meet the class of 23

From Kazuo Ishiguro to Zadie Smith, Granta’s list has been spotlighting future stars since 1983. Four decades on, what does its evolution says about our literary landscape?

The Guardian - UK · Apr 15, 2023

Granta reveals its pick of future star British novelists

The journal’s once-in-a-decade selection of the best fiction writers under 40 has broadened its selection of 20 to include authors who ‘regard the UK as their home’

The Guardian - UK · Apr 13, 2023

The best new books released in March, as selected by avid readers and critics

Short stories by Margaret Atwood, a thriller from a Booker Prize winner, and an interrogation of our cultural obsession with true crime are among our favourite new books.

ABC News · Mar 31, 2023

Review: 'Birnam Wood,' by Eleanor Catton

FICTION: A group of eco-guerrillas encounter a mysterious billionaire in this pre-pandemic literary thriller.

Tribune News Service · Mar 15, 2023

Our weekend arts and culture picks, from Creed III to The Woman in Black

A round-up of the best cultural obsessions over the next few days

The Independent UK · Mar 3, 2023

Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton review – hippies v billionaires

In her third novel, the Booker winner captures our collective despair about an unequal world in a finely spun web of misunderstandings

The Guardian - UK · Mar 3, 2023