Michael King

Going deep with Going West: An audio taonga for book-lovers arrives online

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The oldest independent literary festival in Aotearoa is putting its massive back-catalogue online. Going West’s producer James Littlewood explains why – and what’s next. February, 2020. We’d just pulled together a crack team and were poised to launch into full-blown planning when the virus hit and we went into lockdown. Suddenly, the future ceased to … Read more

Winner of our great book prize announced as Elizabeth Knox is proved most popular author of all times

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Elizabeth Knox – whose novel The Vintner’s Luck has been named by Spinoff readers as the best New Zealand book of the past 50 years – reaches into her sunhat and plucks out the name of a lucky winner in our amazing book prize.  The Spinoff Review of Books recently published the entire list of … Read more