My book Magpie Hall is currently the Christchurch City Libraries Community Read, which means everyone is encouraged to read one book and...

I read this article  by Nicola Griffith with interest and not a lot of surprise, which talks about how books with women as main protagonist...

As today is my father's birthday, and because I marked ten years since his death by introducing the Michael King Memorial Lecture at th...

"You don’t know what you’re doing for a long time. It seems like a huge mess because it is a huge mess. If you looked at the notes f...

This is very late notice, but I am giving a talk to the Friends of Christchurch Libraries tomorrow (October 8), and anybody is welcome to at...

Last week, I was honoured to receive The Esther Glen Medal for junior fiction at the LIANZA Book Awards. It's New Zealand's longe...

I started writing this on Friday, and it is in danger of becoming out of date before I can finish it, so I'm posting it now... will be b...

Avenues , a Christchurch magazine, has very admirably put a writer on their cover - me! I'm very happy with the story, which is one of...

I am delighted to announce (somewhat belatedly) that Red Rocks is a finalist in the Junior Fiction category of the NZ Post Children's...

Here's a picture of me*, yesterday, talking to about 90 kids at the Shirley Library in Christchurch. Being as how it is New Zealand B...