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It has been 35 years since teenager Joanne Chatfield left a concert in central Auckland - never to be seen again. Someone knows what happened to the...

Warwick Jordan says Kiwis should continue to experience the magic of second-hand books.

I had these conversations over supper while workers in Hi-Vis gear and union shirts mixed it with white-collar types and activists. The supper menu reflected this diversity: party pies; meat balls and savs competed for attention with vegan wraps, sushi and mini quiches. Workers and environmentalists had come together to discuss an environmentally-friendly, jobs-rich economic transformation under the auspices of the Hunter Jobs Alliance. This dialogue is being generated by the changes in technol...

Second-hand bookstores defeat Covid © Provided by Newsroom Back from the lockdown brink, many Kiwi second hand bookshops are flourishing — at least while the domestic tourist boom continues. Matteo Di Maio reports Lockdown. An almost total absence of overseas tourists. A fragile industry at the best of times. And yet, Kiwi second-hand bookstore owners say, business is booming. Sales are currently above pre-Covid levels, said Rachel Pope, the owner of   books in central Hamilton. “It’s...