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Interview: Eileen Merriman and Pamela Morrow
Eileen Merriman has published three books for young adults, and one for adults in the past three years, including her March release A...
Rachel Eadie interviews Jessica Townsend
October 2017 saw Sunshine Coast local Jessica Townsend hit the big time. Her children’s novel Nevermoor was the biggest-selling...
Donotello and Roofael in conversation
Two of New Zealand's most celebrated, funny and prolific author-illustrators let us eavesdrop on a chat they had recently. Here are Ruth...
Interviewing the legendary Paul Jennings
Paul Jennings is a legend of Australian children's literature. He burst onto the literary scene in 1985 with his first anthology of short...
Scott Tulloch and Myles Lawford Co-Interview
Humour authors Scott Tulloch and Myles Lawford interview one another about their careers, and about their most recent books - Where’s...
Across the Ditch: Author and editor Sue Whiting
Australian author Sue Whiting has written numerous books in a variety of genres: fiction and nonfiction, picture books through to YA,...
NZ Festival Interview: Sonny Liew
The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye tells a tale encompassing stories strewn over decades of the creation of Singapore. The apathetic yet...
Across the Ditch: Kate and Jol Temple
Terri-Rose Baynton, the New Zealand-based illustrator of much-talked-about new picture book Room On Our Rock, interviews Kate and Jol...
NZ Festival Interview: R. A. Spratt
R. A. Spratt is an award winning author and television writer, best known for her two series' Nanny Piggins and Friday Barnes, Girl...
Across the Ditch: Author Zana Fraillon
Australian author Zana Fraillon is an observer of the unseen: ‘As an author, I am drawn to the absences and the silences in our world.’...
Author Interview: David Riley - Reading Warrior
David Riley is a Reading Warrior. The biographical niche-cramming South Auckland teacher-turned-author’s mission: to get books into the...
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