First published SEP 27, 2023 Updated 46 minutes ago ReadingRoom An annual report on the state of New Zealand fiction as something that people actually want to buy   About 18 months ago, I wrote a piece for Newsroom that, along with plugging our inaugural Allen & Unwin Fiction prize, lamented the sorry state of New Zealand fiction sales at the time – despite the fact that 2021 was a bumper year for book sales generally. (Turns out that was mostly because we felt like we had lots of money thanks to those lovely low interest rates … remember them?) Last week, we announced the second winner of that prize – Gavin Strawhan, a scriptwriter, show runner and soon to be debut novelist, whose novel, The Call , came out on top.

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