Love letters for NZ Bookshop Day

Author Graeme Lay in Frank Sargeson House, in Takapuna.

Today is NZ Bookshop Day. To celebrate the place book stores hold in our hearts and communities, prominent authors have penned a note to their favourite shops.

Stacy Gregg

Fiona Kidman

P.S. I'd like to add love letters, too, to all those bookshops in little towns whose staff come out on dark wet nights to country halls and libraries. I will never forget you.

Mandy Hager

Graeme Lay