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Book news Ockham results Congratulations to all the winning and shortlisted authors, and especially to Becky Manwatu for her sweep of Best First Fiction and the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction. Auckland Writers Festival 2020 Winter Online Series  Watch live via the Festival’s YouTube and Facebook channels, and then on their website. WORD Christchurch now running October 30 - 1 November They need your help to stage this year's festival! WORD is a charitable trust, and it's now easier than ever to donate. More information here.  VERB Wellington confirmed for 6-8 November, with Litcrawl on 7 November NZ Bookstores experiencing boom in Level 2 - Guardian article  The price of literature: writers take on Government over fair pay by Kelly Dennett "This proposition that writers just do their work for love is a scurrilous attack on the integrity of all authors," says Dame Fiona Kidman. Book reviews  KD: A Terrible Country by Keith Gessen (Fitzcarraldo Editions) LK: The Secret History by Donna T