Tim Jones: Books in the Trees

Another of my occasional essays on landcsape and memory (I feel a book of them coming on...). The first version of this formed part of my po...

Every month or so, this blog turns into a chat show: I interview an author, usually but not always a New Zealand author, about their inspira...

Kim Stanley Robinson is well known for his fictions about the near future in the face of climate change (the "Science in the Capital...

The Sir Julius Vogel Awards, New Zealand's equivalent of the Hugo Awards, have recently opened for nominations. Nominations close on 31 ...

I kept track of my 2009 reading using LibraryThing . It turns out I read a book a week in 2009 - excluding the many books I consulted as par...

The winner of the signed copy of Nalini Singh's UK edition of her novel Angels' Blood is blog commenter Edna (see my interview with...

The Last Church is available from Amazon.com . Other availability details are on Lee Pletzers' website . The Last Church is published by...