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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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.’...
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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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