It’s the most exciting time of the year in the New Zealand book world as the Ockham New Zealand Book Award longlist has just been announced. We also have a line up of three New Zealand books for review and have a wee look at what’s on the reading pile and coming out in 2021.

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BooksKD: Gangland by Jared Savage, with a mention of Patched by Jarrod Gilbert (HarperCollins NZ)Mary Holm on RNZ’s BookmarksGyles Beckford on RNZ’s BookmarksLK:Victory Park by Rachel Kerr (Makaro Press)Kiran’s interview with Rachel for the NZ Herald.JT: Remote Sympathy by Catherine Chidgey (VUP)

Not BooksKD: Michael Apted’s Seven Up series LK: What Writers and Editors Do by Karl Ove Knausgaard on The Paris Review blogJT: Bling Empire and Pretend it’s a City (both Netflix)

The TBR PileKD: The Mirror Book by Charlotte Grimshaw, A Crooked Tree by Una Mannion, Kitchenly 434 by Alan Warner, The Young Team by Graeme ArmstrongLK: Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb, At Freddie’s by Penelope Fitzgerald, with a mention of I Capture the Castle by Dodie SmithJT: Remaining Ockham fiction longlist to read: Bug Week by Airini Beautrais and Toto Among the Murderers by Sally Morgan

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The Ockham New Zealand Book Awards Longlist is announced

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