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Events
This Thursday Cook the Books is having a fundraiser for Habitat for Humanity – details on our calendar
Book News
As independent bookstores crash and burn in USA and UK, the book market in France is doing just fine
You can find events for National Poetry Day on our website. Scroll to 27 July for the action
New releases
Eruption! Discovering New Zealand volcanoes by Maria Gill from New Holland
60 Million Gingernuts by Peter Janssen
Scholastic NZ: July titles
Book reviews
2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson
Read LA Times review of Jodi Picoult’s Between the Lines and see her live in Auckland 23 July
The Ant and the Ferrari By Dr Kerry Spackman
From around the internet
Hear Noel Murphy of the NZ Book Council chat to Radio NZ about us being Guest of Honour country at Frankfurt
Opportunities
Poets if you have a love for good poetry and good food you might like this competition