Where to get your Book news

Here are a few websites where you can keep up to date with what's happening in the world of books, authors, publishing and libraries. They are some of the places we gather our information, but if you are interested you can bookmark them on your own browser (only after you have bookmarked us as one of your favourites of course).

Stuff.co.nz has a Books page under their Entertainment option. This gets updated regularly and has a real Kiwi flavour to it.

Graham Beattie (otherwise known as Bookman Beattie) has a wonderful blog on which he collects both local and international news as well as writing his own reviews. He his prolific in his postings (we are jealous of the amount of time he has to spend on it).

Heading off-shore you have pages like the Guardian (UK) and the New York Times in which to find your international news. Not all the books reviewed will, of course, reach New Zealand but it is always good to know what's out there.

There are also a huge number of authors that make use of the Internet with their own Blogs and Websites. Here is a link to a list of author blogs which are great for getting an insight into the minds of the writers. Publisher websites are another good source of information. That's people like Harper Collins, Penguin and Hachette. Likewise book shops from the large book chains to the small village bookshops are all great to have a look at.

Most of these pages have further links which you can follow, so it is very easy to while away (waste) time lost in the world of books.