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The most recent book in that series, The Missing Sister, was released last month and shot to the top of New Zealand’s book charts. According to Riley’s publisher, Pan Macmillan, it was the biggest fiction launch for a book in New Zealand since 2019. SUPPLIED Four other Seven Sisters novels had also re-entered the local charts, which Booksellers Association chief executive Dan Slevin said was a pattern whenever a new addition to the series was released. “We’ve seen that her books come in waves,” he said. “When there’s a new book, people go back to the old ones and they all go back in the charts as people discover them and realise they can absorb them all.” ....
George Empson captured this image of a westerly at sunset in the Mackenzie near Tekapo. An inaugural festival celebrating literature, arts, the landscape and community will be held in the Mackenzie later this year. The Mackenzie Book and Art Festival, create. will take place on September 17 to October 3, with 40 events, aiming to ‘’bring the community together, attracting people from all over the country to our beautiful district and have a world-class celebration of New Zealand’s artists and authors’’, a release from festival organisers says. Authors taking part in the festival include Ockham New Zealand Book Awards finalist Alison Jones, two of the creators of Landmarks publication Owen Marshall and Grahame Sydney, and Otematata Station’s Phillippa Cameron with her new book ....