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Experts on stalking, freshly codified as a standalone criminal offence in New Zealand, say the crime is not a new one but its nature has changed. Where following another person around used to be a labourious activity involving physically tracking someone and lurking outside their home or workplace, now we have dozens of digital tools to pry open someone’s life and fire in consta...

This historical novel opens in Nelson in 1867 and follows the life of Ginny Yang, the widow of a Chinese man, who faces a difficult road ahead as she raises their mixed-race son on her own. Always looking over her shoulder in case her violent father finds her, she struggles against racism and sexism. The story takes the reader from Nelson, Wellington, Christchurch, Dunedin, Quee...

David Schnauer is a retired lawyer with degrees in law and economics. He and his wife Patricia established and ran Schnauer and Co, a successful law firm on Auckland's North Shore, for 25 years. Between them they have four children and seven grandchildren. A fourth-generation Aucklander and proud New Zealander, David has spent much of his life frustrated by his country's economi...

A month of free and fresh literary adventures for all Aucklanders The beloved, free month-long festival Ka Pānui Tātou i Tāmaki Makaurau We Read Auckland returns this August with an exciting new programme of author talks and writing workshops, a popular writing competition for teenagers and fresh new reads featuring local voices and stories. We Read Auckland was launched in 2021...

James Norcliffe’s A Day Like No Other gathers poems from across nearly four decades of writing, offering not simply a retrospective but a carefully shaped meditation on the rhythms of lived experience. The collection moves fluidly through time, drawing together work that reflects both continuity and quiet evolution. Rather than presenting a single narrative, it accumulates meani...