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Letter from the editor: Welcome to a whole new bookety
Well, here we are. After more than a year of planning, fundraising, building and many an existential crisis wondering what I had got myself into, you’re actually reading this on…
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Zoë Foster Blake is writing the conversations you’re having with your friends
Zoë Foster Blake is one of those women who seems to sprinkle magic gold dust on everything she touches. After a decade working as a beauty journalist and editor, she…
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Life of M: fact vs fiction
Life of M follows an unnamed writer who takes on the project of writing about M, a major celebrity. The narrator becomes an observer, trying to extract the prizes and…
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The book-to-screen adaptations hitting our screens before the year ends
Hollywood’s appetite for books shows no signs of slowing down, and we’re certainly not complaining. Film and television adaptations can have an enormous impact on book sales, introducing stories to…
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The Bookety Book Books Top 100 2026/27
We couldn’t be more excited to finally reveal the 2026 Bookety Book Books Top 100, and a huge congratulations to Charlotte McConaghy, whose brilliant Wild Dark Shore has taken out…
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Everything you need to know about this year’s Bookety Top 100

Which books will make the Bookety Top 100 each year, and which one will come out on top, is always…

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Zoë Foster Blake is writing the conversations you’re having with your friends

Zoë Foster Blake is one of those women who seems to sprinkle magic gold dust on everything she touches. After…

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Why everyone in Aotearoa should read The Valley

Asher Emanuel has arrived on the New Zealand literary scene with a bang, delivering what is undoubtedly one of the…

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Q+A with Meg Mason author of Sophie, Standing There

Meg Mason is a New Zealand-born, Sydney-based author and former journalist whose novels have found readers around the world. She…

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