Book news

• Ockham results
• Congratulations to all the winning and shortlisted authors, and especially to Becky Manwatu for her sweep of Best First Fiction and the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction.
• Auckland Writers Festival 2020 Winter Online Series
• Watch live via the Festival’s YouTube and Facebook channels, and then on their website.
• WORD Christchurch now running October 30 - 1 November
• They need your help to stage this year's festival! WORD is a charitable trust, and it's now easier than ever to donate. More information here.
• VERB Wellington confirmed for 6-8 November, with Litcrawl on 7 November
• NZ Bookstores experiencing boom in Level 2 - Guardian article
• The price of literature: writers take on Government over fair pay by Kelly Dennett

"This proposition that writers just do their work for love is a scurrilous attack on the integrity of all authors," says Dame Fiona Kidman.

Book reviews

KD: A Terrible Country by Keith Gessen (Fitzcarraldo Editions)

LK: The Secret History by Donna Tartt (Penguin)

JT: Ripiro Beach by Caroline Barron (Bateman Books)

Not books

KD: Los Angeles is Burning by Anna Rankin on Newsroom

LK: The Good Place on Netflix and The Wondrous Adventures of Mittens

JT: Nat’s What I Reckon on YouTube

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