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We are hugely proud that The Listener have chosen 34 of our titles for their Top 100 Best Books of 2018!!! Pick up a copy of the mag now and start building your (guaranteed great) summer reading list plus enter their competition to win all 100 titles!

We are, indeed, hiring. Love to hear from anyone with book design chops who wants to join my excellent team at Penguin Random House NZ.

Ka rawe! Congratulations Guyon Espiner for winning te Tohu Kairangi from the Māori Language Commission! ‘Learn a little, use a little, learn more, use more – ahakoa iti, akona, kōrerohia.’ radionz.co.nz/media/126

Know your en dash from your em dash? Come work with us! We’re hiring right now for an experienced Publishing Project Editor. For details and to apply visit po.st/ProjectEditor

Splendid Acorn Foundation Fiction Prize Ockham NZ Book Awards in this morning’s ODT

Winner of #theockhams best novel (Acorn Foundation Fiction Prize) is This Mortal Boy by Dame Fiona Kidman. Her book was based on the 1955 murder case of “jukebox killer”, Albert “Paddy” Black, who was the second-to-last man to be hanged in New Zealand noted.co.nz/culture/books/…

Winner! Fiona Kidman with her publisher Harriet Allan and Penguin Random House NZ director Carrie Welch #theockhams

Straight outta Aro, my very first book for Penguin Books NZ is The Art of Beer by the excellent crew at Garage Project It was huge fun to make and truly a cracking great read. Turns out those good buggers are as talented at writing as they are at beer and design.

Mad congrats @miffhurley and lucky Allen & Unwin You, me, Louise Russell - what's the dark magic with that Y4 netball team at WS?! Surely it can't have any more NZ publishers courtside...

⁦⁦Garage Project⁩ founder Pete Gillespie talks Hemingway, books and beer at ⁦Going West Festival⁩

Was it not Douglas Adams who said he loved deadlines - namely the sound of them, whooshing by? Still time for last min lit types to scrape in to the very excellent Sunday Star-Times short story competition. Today.

#askatwood Please can you tell us a little about making your magnificent and cleverly designed children’s picture book, Up In A Tree? Those beavers!

Congrats to Matthew Cunningham and Sarah Wilkins 🎉 the incredibly talented team behind Abigail and the Birth of the Sun, on their Picture Book of the year win at the NZCYA Awards! #PenguinProud #NZCYA

This is a brilliant qualification for jobs in publishing and beyond. I have lost count of how many dozen clever Whitireia grads I’ve employed over the years.

We at Penguin Books NZ are very excited to announce a new scholarship opportunity in partnership with @PublishingWhiti!   Find out more about the PRH Māori and Pasifika Publishing scholarship here: bit.ly/3pWYuA3 Applications close 29th January 2021.

That 'someone' was me. Thanks The Spinoff for the opportunity to rank Reacher like the madwoman I was when I read them.