Literary critic and historian, Lydia Wevers, launched Roger Blackley's new book Galleries of Maoriland: Artists, Collectors and the Māori world, 1880–1910.Most people here will have been in Roger’s office, that twilight zone where

Tears of Rangi: Experiments Across Worlds by Professor Dame Anne Salmond has been shortlisted for the 2018 Nayef Al-Rodhan prize.The Nayef Al Rodhan Prize is awarded by the British Academy for "an outstanding contribution to global cultural understan

Elizabeth Smither has won the 2018 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards Poetry Award for Night Horse – an honour bestowed on her twice before! Elizabeth Smither has written five novels, five collections of short stories and eighteen poetry collections incl

The following speech by Paula Morris was delivered at the launch of Odyssey of the Unknown Anzac by David Hastings and Gallipoli to the Somme: Recollections of a New Zealand Infantryman by Alexander Aitken (edited by Alex Calder). Republished with ki

Michael Belgrave has been awarded the 2018 Ernest Scott Prize for Dancing with the King: The Rise and Fall of the King Country, 1864–1885, which documents the rise and fall of the King Country, an independent state governed by the Māori King where se