Damien Wilkins

This children’s book awards speech is the happy cry you need right now

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Announcing the winners of the 2020 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults.  The supreme prize of the night, the Margaret Mahy Book of the Year Award, goes to Selina Tusitala Marsh for her super-personal picture book, Mophead. Mophead is memoir and clapback and wild doodle; it’s the story of what it felt … Read more

No shops, no launches – but the NZ book scene is finding new ways to reach people under lockdown

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Books editor Catherine Woulfe takes an energising walk around the lockdown block of New Zealand books.  When the bubbles settled over us they settled over the books too. Libraries were the first to shut down, then the physical bookstores and finally, the hammer blow: online sales and indeed any notion of benevolently posting books about … Read more