With great power comes great responsibility, so goes the saying, and with digitisation comes great opportunity, too. But, in a world obsessed with clicks and swipes, there is danger in diverting our kids’ attentions from the good, old-fashioned book.
Unputdownable Novels
With strong women centre stage
Our favourite novels for this month, with strong women centre stage.
The Chapter Book and Tea Shop is the location of Auckland’s original Mt Eden tea shop which started in 1995.
Slippers on, blanky over knees! Time to keep warm, curl up and enjoy a visual experience from Hudson and Thames.
The NZ Booklovers Awards is now in its fifth year of celebrating the best of New Zealand books, and here are some of the shortlisted books in the Fiction Category, where the judges were looking for the best in storytelling, a novel they couldn't put down!









