Impress your family and wow your friends by making Ottolenghi recipes easily at home and without any hassle. Yotam’s award-winning recipes are always a celebration: an unforgettable combination of abundance, taste and surprise. Ottolenghi SIMPLE is no different. Bursting with colourful photography by Jonathan Lovekin and playful design, this cookbook has over 130 brand-new dishes that contain all the inventive elements and flavour combinations that Ottolenghi is loved for, but with minimal hassle for maximum joy. Every person cooks differently. Some find baking easy, others crumble at the th ..read more

Anne Salmond shortlisted for £25k British Academy prize Tears of Rangi: Experiments Across Worlds by Professor Dame Anne Salmond has been shortlisted for the 2018 Nayef Al-Rodhan prize—awarded by the British Academy for a book that makes "an outstanding contribution to global cultural understanding". The Award ceremony will take place at the British Academy in London on the evening of 30 October. Dame Anne Salmond was also the recipient of a Humboldt Research Award this year. Recent Events: Authors Greg Ryan and Geoff Watson kick off their new book Sport and the New Zealanders: A History in ..read more

  Pearson Is Still the World's Largest Publisher The U.K. educational publisher remained the biggest publisher on the planet in 2017 with sales topping $6 billion. more Booksellers Navigate New Trends in Middle Grade From some of the smallest bookstores in the country to the biggest indie stores, six booksellers shared their views on recent developments in the middle grade landscape, as well as their approaches to getting books into the hands of young readers. more Reclaiming Reference For librarians, reference work today is increasingly about community service. more Jenny Ma ..read more

Ian Buruma Resigns from 'NYRB': The editor of the 'New York Review of Books' has stepped down amid uproar over a #MeToo essay penned by an alleged abuser. Amazon Eyeing 3K Cashierless Stores: The e-tailer is considering opening 3,000 new AmazonGo cashierless stores by 2021. Trump Powers Boom Time for Publishers: President Donald Trump may not be much of a reader, but he’s been a gift to the book business. A 'Tattooist of Auschwitz' Adaptation: Heather Morris's book 'The Tattooist of Auschwitz' is set to be turned into a "high-end" international drama series. The Most Unread Book Ever Accl ..read more

Eamon Dolan will join Simon & Schuster Publishing Group as vice president and executive editor starting October 1. Dolan was most recently with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, where he ran his own imprint, Eamon Dolan Books, which was shut down in July. Simon & Schuster president and publisher Jonathan Karp says, "Eamon will continue to do what he has done so brilliantly for years: Identify, edit, and publish some of the best writers and thinkers in the culture – authors whose works are relevant to understanding our times and how they are changing, and capable of being just as meaningful i ..read more

WRITERS ON MONDAYS Short Sharp Script : Circa Theatre More exciting work in progress from the second group of IIML scriptwriters, at Circa Theatre. This week the spotlight falls on work from Matasila Freshwater, Dylan Conen, Julia Ludbrook, and Ralph McCubbin Howell. Introduced by Ken Duncum. DATE:  Monday 24 September TIME:   12.15-1.15pm VENUE:  CIRCA Theatre Writers on Mondays is presented by the International Institute of Modern Letters, Circa Theatre and Te Papa Tongarewa. These events are open to the public and free of charge.   ..read more

A very special author event.  Always Delicious with Lauraine Jacobs & Sam Mannering - Monday 1 October.   Ever since Lauraine started writing the FOOD column in the NZ Listener it has been a go-to weekly resource for reliable recipes which champion seasonal ingredients. Now, in association with Potton & Burton, those favourite recipes are being published in one gorgeous book - ALWAYS DELICIOUS. Accompanied by tips, tricks & food chat, each recipe is beautifully photographed by Li ..read more

Escape! to the great outdoors A perfume from Saudi Arabia that evoked the country’s landscape crystallised a business idea for Tauranga couple Serena and Harold Jones – using scent to create a unique sense of place. The result is Queenstown Natural Perfumiers, which debuted its collection last year. “Our natural environment is New Zealand’s true luxury. It’s totally amazing and often undervalued,” says Serena Jones, who has studied botany and horticulture. “Queenstown Lakes is among New Zealand’s finest landscapes so we sought to find and express the region’s essential scents.” After 2 years ..read more

      Time to feastIt’s still sunny at my place, but temperatures have dropped around most of the country, so the chill is on its way. I used to love coming home from school to a warm kitchen when I was child, and my kids loved it too, especially when it was full of tempting smells. Good food is like that. It draws people in, brings them together, which is why the kitchen is called the heart of the home. If you run a family home, never undervalue the effort you put in. It is always worth it to make homecooked food, to crea ..read more

A ..read more