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This week's best-sellers

This week s best-sellers © Provided by Newsroom Editor’s note: The opinions in this article are the author’s, as published by our content partner, and do not represent the views of MSN or Microsoft. This week s biggest-selling New Zealand books, as recorded by the Nielsen BookScan New Zealand bestseller list and described by Steve Braunias FICTION From the Otago Daily Times earlier this week: A creative-writing competition for prisoners at the Otago Corrections Facility is in full swing. Entries close in a month, when judges Becky Manawatu, Emer Lyons and Liam McIlvanney will choose their winners. Entrants only have to look to a couple of high-profile former inmates who found solace in literature. For Dr Paul Wood, jailed for a murder he committed when he was 18 years old, it took years before he realised the power of reading and writing behind bars. Once I started reading, it completely changed my world, he told the

This week's best-selling books

This week s best-selling books Newsroom 4 hrs ago © Provided by Newsroom Editor’s note: The opinions in this article are the author’s, as published by our content partner, and do not represent the views of MSN or Microsoft. This week s biggest-selling New Zealand books, as recorded by the Nielsen BookScan New Zealand bestseller list and described by Steve Braunias In the photo above: We resume our series of photos of authors nominated for the 2021 Ockham New Zealand national book awards with this portrait of Nina Mingya Powles. Her collection of poems Magnolia 木蘭 (published by the excellent Seraph Press) is shortlisted for the poetry prize. From a review in online cultural site londongrip.co.uk: Powles comes from New Zealand and from mixed heritage. Her mother was from Shanghai where Powles recently spent 18 months, studying Mandarin and writing poems and prose as she learned its languages, flavours, culture, colours and sounds. After moving to London in 2018 she f

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