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What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in September

Authors, critics and Guardian readers discuss the titles they have read over the last month. Join the conversation in the comments

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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

From poverty, psychiatric hospital and writing in a shed to literary stardom: Janet Frame at 100

The New Zealand author channelled her experience of tragedy and mental illness with dazzling results. Now centenary celebrations will ensure her extraordinary vision lives on

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'What does journey even mean?': Emily Perkins interrogates our obsession with wellbeing

Therese Thorne is the kind of woman who cooks steak “perfectly, because people pleasing can’t stop overnight”. The kind who says “whatever would make people feel better”, even if it is not what she believes.

The Conversation

Book of the Week: Middle-age, middle-class womanhood, and other crises

In her first novel in 10 years, Emily Perkins interrogates "your perfect Chelsea Winter life"

Newsroom.co.nz

Vic Books closes

The shock closure of a Wellington bookstore.

Newsroom.co.nz

The House of Catton

Book reviews, award-winning essays, author interviews and more - dig into the best of New Zealand writing at ReadingRoom literary editor Steve Braunias.

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Exhausted nurses call for 'safe staffing and decent pay' during Hobart strike

An exhausted workforce, staffing levels below safe minimums and nurses feeling like they are unable to give patients the care they need: This is the picture nurses have painted of the Royal Hobart Hospital.

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