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Blitzen Christmas: the Booksellers NZ List of what books to read and buy this Christmas In the spirit of the traditional Yuletide list, your hard working Christmas elves at Booksellers NZ (hic) have compiled a jamboree of bookselling talent to tell you, dear reader, what books to line your Santa sack with this December.  We can’t promise the list of books below is naughty or nice or even a fair representation of NZ and international titles, but we can promise you that the books have been chosen by a range of expert booksellers from indies and chains alike. We believe this particular ensemble of books is the most diverse and madly brilliant list of the year, but then we have been hitting the eggnog pretty hard.If you are looking for suggestions of what to read by real booksellers working in real bookstores (rather than suggested by the algorithms of a megalomaniac online enterprise) then visit your local bookstore. If you want to read our extra-special magical Christmas list of favourite books chosen by NZ booksellers, then without further ado…  Experienced team to judge the 2015 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults Bob Docherty, Annemarie Florian and Fiona Mackie have been appointed judges of the 2015 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults. New Zealand Authors on IMPAC Dublin 2015 shortlist A number of books by New Zealand authors have been longlisted for the 2015 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Tracy Farr wins the Sunday Star-Times Short Story Award A Norwegian church, a concrete cherub and a rose garden were the winning themes in the 30th annual Sunday Star-Times Short Story Awards. New Zealand writers defy trend, says Lydia Wevers (Dominion Post/Fairfax) Kiwi writers are producing more work than ever before, in defiance of dire warnings about the future of the book-publishing industry.