Deaccesioning books for the move downtown. Lots of double-ups from when we merged our libraries almost 40 years ago

FAFSWAG artist Pati Tyrell's commissioned art work for the cover of Tusiata Avia's new book entitled 'Giving Birth To My Father'. You can also pick up a copy for yourself here: teherengawakapress.co.nz/products/giv...

✨COVER REVEAL!✨ LUCKY CREATURES by Joseph Trinidad is a humorous and endearing debut about migration, queerness and the transnational experience. Selected by Alexander Chee (@alexanderchee.bsky.social) to win the 2024 Sarabande Prize in the Essay Available June 2026. Preorder in bio!

The @thwupbooks.bsky.social staff kitchen has seen some losses

Bookmark this, America

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Me, still on Earth, after everyone has risen.

Spot the difference. (Feat. quotes from Stuart Nash, formerly Labour Min of Police, Min for Oceans and Fisheries, Min of Tourism and Hospitality, Min of Forestry, now good friend of NZ First. No intro needed for the other fellow quoted) My Stuff #cartoon today #NZpol #USA #Trump

A gorgeous advance copy to end the week ❤️ @thwupbooks.bsky.social

Oh dear @elizabethknoxnz.bsky.social what are we going to replace proper crisps with? www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/griffins-...

Please join the ELCC programme for the launch of Charles Ferrall's new book this Thursday at Unity! www.unitybooks.co.nz/news-and-eve...

Lovely and thoughtful review of Kings of this World thespinoff.co.nz/books/13-09-...

Announcing Sala Alas, my first solo exhibition in New Zealand for ten years. Opening 6pm, Tuesday 28th October at 218c Willis Street, Wellington.

Next week Writers on Mondays moves to Tuesday and Wednesday, 6pm at Meow for the Next Page: grab a drink and check out the next generation of Aotearoa's writers in this lively night of fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction from the IIML's MA (Page) workshops! www.eventfinda.co.nz/2025/writers...

Elizabeth Knox introducing her new book Kings of This World to an appreciative crowd in Wellington this evening

Last night, at the launch party, Jonathan Boston said, 'Sir Geoffrey’s latest book offers a hopeful, positive, and clear-sighted analysis of our current dilemmas and possible solutions. It is highly readable, accessible, well-reasoned, pithy, yet hard-hitting.'

Tonight at Unity Books Wellington, Elizabeth Knox launches her new YA novel, Kings of this World. 6pm, all welcome!

barbarians inside the gate

Since we have just lost an amazing writer at 57 who is Māori, who once described the Whāngarei hospital to me as “frightening… those cracks in the system are gaping crevasses”, that last line is absolutely disgusting.

Thanks for this @understatesmen.bsky.social I have many thoughts

Hot off the press and out next week! How to Save Democracy in Aotearoa New Zealand by Sir Geoffrey Palmer, a book so impassioned that it needed some big chunky 3D type for its title @thwupbooks.bsky.social

Advance copy! @thwupbooks.bsky.social

This is a terrific piece. Timely and barbed. Brava @pollyrowena.bsky.social lithub.com/nature-is-no...

My poem 'Classic Car Magazines' is pick of the week on the Best American Poetry blog. Nice that it's getting an online life, having only been in print. blog.bestamericanpoetry.com/the_best_ame...

Watching Bay of Fires on TVNZ+, a quirky mystery set in Tasmania, and one of the characters is reading Hicksville @dylanhorrocks.bsky.social !

Reprint! @ingridhorrocks.bsky.social @thwupbooks.bsky.social

Last week my book won best first book at the NZ book awards for children and young adults and it was very surprising and lovely 💚 I am gazing at Witi Ihimaera in the groups winners photo - how did I get here?!

Times Literary Supplement June 20

Also this 6 Life-Changing Books Recommended by Jacinda Ardern | Books - Times Now www.timesnownews.com/lifestyle/bo...

ONCE IN A HOUSE ON FIRE, a memoir of a working class Manchester childhood in the 70s and 80s, was a literary sensation. Then author Andrea Ashworth dropped out of sight. For @manchestermill.bsky.social I found out why. manchestermill.co.uk/andrea-ashwo...

Congratulations to Tracey Slaughter, who came second in the 2025 Elizabeth Jolley Prize for her story ‘Sediment’! Tracey is the first writer to be shortlisted for all three of the Australian Book Review’s prizes – essay, poetry and short story! www.australianbookreview.com.au/prizes-progr...

Two stories about extraordinary communities arising in disaster (reference: Rebecca Solnit, A Paradise Built in Hell, an influence on Wake)

Quick, look at the authors page on our new website before we fix it teherengawakapress.co.nz/products/fro...

Comics are good.

Thrilling to reprint our gnarliest book of 2024 @thwupbooks.bsky.social

AUDITION PATCHWORK HELEN OF NOWHERE

definitely the worst thing about the destruction of mass media and the fragmentation of audiences is political changes that would’ve otherwise been defeated by a media campaign (e.g the government disenfranchising hundreds of thousands of people) just aren’t challenged, let alone won, anymore

Editor in exile www.nzherald.co.nz/hawkes-bay-t...

Another day, another shit sandwich. Kinda wish I hadn’t opened this app. But I can tell you I just came from a class full of brilliant people & the world is full of incredible stories & reading and writing reminds us they can’t take away what makes us most human.

“The rage - at fate, at God. Not merely being helpless, but in someone's - something's - power. I've always detested any sense of power over me.” Shirley Hazzard, The Transit of Venus

I wonder if this is a bit like when people in the English speaking world got really into spiritualism during periods of great change and stress (the industrial revolution in the 19th century, then after WWI). People trying to find something to rely on, no matter how loopy

Sweet as! Agent copies in of the OZ edition of @louisewallace.bsky.social’s marvellous debut novel Ash, out from @allenandunwin.bsky.social in September!

Private Eye hits the nail on the head

Oh god. I just worked it out. If you make health or recovery solely the individuals responsibility then you can just replace them and never think of them again.

Today’s the day: come and see Ockham Best First Book of Fiction winner Michelle Rahurahu in conversation with Gina Butson, whose novel The Stars Are a Million Glittering Worlds is about to be launched, in the first event of Writers on Mondays at Te Papa, 1215 www.tepapa.govt.nz/visit/events...

🎉 Exciting news to start the week - All Her Lives by Ingrid Horrocks is coming October 9, 2025. All Her Lives follows women across generations as they resist, nurture and transform. It is the first collection of short fiction by @ingridhorrocks.bsky.social.

Make it pol, but also pop

How to Save Democracy in Aotearoa New Zealand by Sir Geoffrey Palmer is coming September 11, 2025.

Today marks what would have been the 100th birthday of poet Alistair Te Ariki Campbell. His writing career spanned sixty years. my.christchurchcitylibraries.com/blogs/post/a... ^DR #BookSky #AotearoaBooks #NZBooks #Poetry