THE PRESENTATION of the inaugural Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Crime Novel, which was postponed when The Press Christchurch Writer’s Festival was cancelled due to the Canterbury earthquake, has been rescheduled for Tuesday, 30 November.

WHODUNNIT AND WHOWUNNIT? PANEL

The Award will now be presented at the conclusion of the ‘Whodunnit and Whowunnit?’ event, a cocktail function and author panel where three of New Zealand’s most outstanding crime writers will discuss storytelling, the state of modern mystery writing, and the books industry in general, to be held amongst the relaxed atmosphere of Visions on Campus Restaurant at CPIT city campus.

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Audio Interview

Alison McCulloch interviews Vincent Comeford author of Ireland: Inventing the Nation. (Review Below.)

Vincent Comerford Interview

MEDIA RELEASE
The New Zealand Electronic Text Centre has made a digital version of New Zealand’s first encyclopaedia — complete with a vision of Friday night at an Eketahuna pub, a glimpse of prison life in 1897 and talk of teenage boys’ smoking rooms at church.The Cyclopedia of New Zealand, Volume One: Wellington Provincial District — which weighs 5.1 kilograms in hard copy — was produced in 1897 and is now online. Also available now is Volume Six: Taranaki, Hawkes Bay and Wellington. Read more »