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20 best New Zealand books of the 21st century: as chosen by experts

Last month, we enjoyed reading The New York Times Best Books of the 21st century – but were disappointed it included no Australian or New Zealand authors.

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A New Zealand politician can’t name a homegrown novel but Kiwi artists have always conquered the world

ACT arts spokesperson Todd Stephenson’s inability to name a New Zealand author for 20 minutes in an interview has rightfully raised eyebrows

The Guardian - AU

Five of the best books about the Victorians

Emma Stone’s Oscar-winning film showed 19th-century Britons as sex-crazed liberals. But it took a while to shake off the puritanical image of the era, as these five books show

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Which classic film’s title came from the Pease Pudding rhyme? The Saturday quiz

From Palma and Manacor to Poäng and Malm, test your knowledge with the Saturday quiz

The Guardian - UK

Paul Murray and Fern Brady shortlisted for inaugural Nero awards

The prizes, which have picked up from the abruptly cancelled Costa awards, cover fiction, debut fiction, children’s fiction and non-fiction

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists: why we love a list

Editorial: Yes, they are marketing tools – but cataloguing culture says much about the society we live in

The Guardian - UK

Granta 163: Best of Young British Novelists 5 review – more solipsism than state of the nation

The latest celebration of emerging literary talent brings thrills, charm and emotional punch to the page. But this new generation have taken an inward turn compared with the more worldly themes of bygone years

The Guardian - UK

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Spring reads 2023: the best new books from Margaret Atwood, Emma Cline and more

The season has changed and a whole new crop of essential books are being unleashed

Evening Standard

Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists – meet the class of 23

From Kazuo Ishiguro to Zadie Smith, Granta’s list has been spotlighting future stars since 1983. Four decades on, what does its evolution says about our literary landscape?

The Guardian - UK

Granta reveals its pick of future star British novelists

The journal’s once-in-a-decade selection of the best fiction writers under 40 has broadened its selection of 20 to include authors who ‘regard the UK as their home’

The Guardian - UK

The best new books released in March, as selected by avid readers and critics

Short stories by Margaret Atwood, a thriller from a Booker Prize winner, and an interrogation of our cultural obsession with true crime are among our favourite new books.

ABC News

Review: 'Birnam Wood,' by Eleanor Catton

FICTION: A group of eco-guerrillas encounter a mysterious billionaire in this pre-pandemic literary thriller.

Tribune News Service

Our weekend arts and culture picks, from Creed III to The Woman in Black

A round-up of the best cultural obsessions over the next few days

The Independent UK

Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton review – hippies v billionaires

In her third novel, the Booker winner captures our collective despair about an unequal world in a finely spun web of misunderstandings

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Ambition, corruption and guerilla gardening: Eleanor Catton's Birnam Wood is a horror story for our time

Almost every review to date mentions the brutal argument that closes the first section of Eleanor Catton’s Birnam Wood. In a novel filled with incident – disasters, chases, one very bad acid trip, general maleficence – it is telling that this scene lingers.

The Guardian - UK

Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton review – the root of all evil

The Booker-winner’s dark and brilliant tale of a gardening collective’s clash with a billionaire explodes the notion of caring capitalism

The Guardian - UK

Eleanor Catton: ‘I felt so much doubt after winning the Booker’

In 2013, at 28, Eleanor Catton became the youngest ever Booker winner with The Luminaries. She talks about adapting the novel for screen, being shut out of her native New Zealand and why it has taken 10 years to write a follow-up

The Independent UK

The best books to read in 2023, from Prince Harry’s memoir to Zadie Smith’s new novel

Get ready to race through some thrilling books in 2023, with heavily anticipated memoirs and new releases from big-name novelists. Jessie Thompson picks some of the most exciting upcoming reads

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