The 2025 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards shortlist of 16 titles (four books in each category) will be announced on 5 March.

Marble won 18 major championships between 1936 and 1940. She was ranked world No. 1 in 1939. She was a celebrity on and off ...

How to respond when asked to be a judge for the country’s book awards? A lifelong sufferer of imposter syndrome, my first thought was, “Why me?” The second was, “Why not?” Eventually, I got to, “It ...

With Unholy Kingdom, Malise Ruthven offers a damning exposé of Mohammed Bin Salman’s regime, its bloodshed and its corruption ...

Wages for Housework, Emily Callaci’s fascinating history of the movement, is highly readable – but it ignores some rather ...

The Ockham New Zealand Book Awards are the premier literary honours for books written by New Zealanders.

Director Anna Cornudella, awarded in Berlin and recipient of the Feroz Arrebato Non-Fiction Award, recalls the long journey through New York, South Dakota, and Catalonia to create one of the films of ...

Most of us have our ideologies firmly rooted in the binaries of faith and reason. But real life is never quite that black-and ...

A host of former winners and a healthy injection of first-time writers are in the running for some of the top literary prizes in Aotearoa, with nominations in for the 2025 Ockham NZ Book Awards.

Two titles in the non-fiction category play with real-life expectations as well as filmmaking conventions. While Zodiac ...

Celebrate your love for books at Pragati Maidan this February at the World Book Fair 2025. Explore rare books, attend author ...

The Watkins Book of Urban Legends is an in-depth analysis on urban legends from their creation to their presence in ...