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WORD Christchurch is no stranger to sold out audiences, but the air at The Piano was abuzz with an exceptional eagerness last week. This was brought on by none other than RF Kuang, who needs no introduction, but Rachael King kindly gave us one anyway.  Rebecca F Kuang is a bestselling author of several, mostly fantasy, novels, and a Marshall scholar who studied at Cambri...

As the days are getting colder, try these questions about mid-winter and some of the ways Ōtautahi has kept warm and well over the years.

It was such a treat to gather with a warm crowd of people to hear Pulitzer Prize winning author Louise Erdrich in conversation with Kate De Goldi at The Piano on Tuesday evening.

I am relatively new to Erdrich’s work, but the friend I came to the event with grew up in the USA, and had spent a lot of time with Erdrich’s books over many y...

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Everyone has a high school movie (or possibly movies) that got them through the awkwardness of their teenage years. 

Maybe yours was The Breakfast Club (or basically