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Mt Tarawera eruption: Author Sarah Ell launches novel A Sky Full of Fire
Ell told the Rotorua Daily Post that the book was set in the days immediately before the eruption,…
NZ Super: Accountants propose higher payments for people who delay claiming
Under one scenario, people who chose to start being paid Super at 65 would receive 90% of the…
Anthropic Rolled Out a Fix That Stops Undetected AI-Generated Writing
It’s going to get a lot harder to let Claude be a ghostwriter for everything from novels to…
Rotorua thriller writer Zoe Rankin sells more than 20,000 copies of her debut novel, The Vanishing Place
The novel was number one on the New Zealand fiction charts and held the top spot for six…
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This is an engrossing and deeply moving novel set in Nazi Germany by a New Zealand woman called…
Sir Peter Jackson comments on recasting Ryan Gosling in 2009 film after actor gained 27kg
“So, I’m not going to talk about individuals, but you just got to realise that what you were…
Netflix’s East of Eden slammed for filming in Auckland and Otago
Considered one of California’s defining literary works, East of Eden is deeply tied to the Salinas Valley and…
Why ‘Kill Dick’ stencil art is appearing all over Los Angeles sidewalks
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Immigration lawyer Ken Oh charged up to $77k for novel immigration package
Rather than offering a standard immigration visa package, Oh created a wraparound package that obtained visas and matched…
Amazon MGM Studios’ ‘Project Hail Mary’ rockets to the top of the box office
The Ryan Gosling-led “Project Hail Mary” rocketed to the top of the box office this weekend, marking a…
Lady Gaga’s Met Gala ‘meltdown’ revealed in new Vogue insider novel
Filipa writes in the novel: “Lady Gaga was barricaded in the Met gift shop, surrounded by tote bags,…