Volume

14/05/2026

Not only did Kafka create a new language to describe the world, he also invented a new punctuation: he put question marks where there had never been any before. “Why” is the word that k…

14/05/2026

Some books spotted on our shelves. Click through to find out more: Seeing People Off Transcription On the Clock The Singularities What Kingdom Adorable Carnality The Naked Eye

14/05/2026

Find out what the judges thought of the winners of the 2026 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards — and get your copies!

The 2026 winners of the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards have just been announced. Read what the judges have to say about each of these books, and then click through to our website to secure your copies. We can send your books to you by overnight courier, or have them ready to collect from our door in

14/05/2026

Walls of various kinds are present in almost all of Marlen Haushofer’s writing. They are a means of both entrapment...

14/05/2026

By Paula Morris

13/05/2026

Ingrid Horrocks has won the major prize at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards for her fiction debut, All Her Lives.

13/05/2026

All your choices are good.

All your choices are good! Click through to our website (or just email us) to secure your copies. We will dispatch your books by overnight courier or have them ready to collect from our door in Church Street, Whakatū.

13/05/2026

Joanna Kavenna's SEVEN is available now.

From Jorge Luis Borges to George Orwell and Margaret Atwood, novelists have foreseen some of the major developments of our age. What can we learn from their prophecies?

13/05/2026

With its cast of thinkers, gamers and artists, this romp across Europe explores our desire to define reality – even as it slips from our intellectual grasp

12/05/2026

Any of the four illustrated books shortlisted for the Ockham prize might win it

12/05/2026

"A novelist's eye for detail."

Review: The Valley, by Asher Emanuel