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Review: The Good Mistress, by Anne Tiernan

'Rory’s death propels the collision of these three women, and each must reckon not only with each other, but with their grief...

Review: This Compulsion in Us, by Tina Makereti

'What is not a metaphor is our connections, as Māori, to our landmarks as living embodiments of ancestors, inseparable from ourselves...'

'They’re living, breathing entities': Hazel Phillips

Hazel Phillips is passionate about bringing the histories of Aotearoa’s wilderness to life through storytelling. Kete asked h...

The Aotearoa Junior Fiction and Young Adult Bestseller List — May 2025

Here they are! Ten bestselling Aotearoa NZ books for tamariki and rangatahi (20 April to 17 May 2025)....

New Books

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Check out the latest books from our amazing NZ authors...

Landfall 249: Autumn 2025

by Lynley Edmeades

Pakiaka

by Gabrielle Huria

The The Kotuku Creek Chronicles: Comic Kiwi Rural ...

by David McGill

A Physician's Journey: Chasing hormones you never ...

by Eric Espiner

The Midnight Plane: Selected and new poems

by Fiona Kidman

Dr Libby Fix Iron First

by Dr Libby

Dominion, Vol. 1

by memoh. memoh.

Unsettled Bliss: whiteness in Aotearoa

by Elizabeth Ann Cook

In Every Season: Rediscovering God's Hope Through ...

by Rachel Rerekura-Tamaiva

Before the Winter Ends

by Khadro Mohamed

Tackling the hens

by Mary McCallum

Anatomy of Sand

by Mikaela Nyman

This week's Aotearoa NZ Bestsellers

Ngā Pukapuka Pai Rawa Atu i Aotearoa i tēnei wiki

View this week's bestselling Aotearoa NZ adult fiction, adult non-fiction and children's books...

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Kete's Calendar of Events

Te Maramataka Taiopenga o Kete

An essential calendar of events for all things bookish in Aotearoa New Zealand...

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Reviews Ngā Arotakenga

Read our independent reviews of the latest books from Aotearoa.

Review: Mad Diva, by Cadence Chung

'The poetic voice used throughout, the mad diva of the title, is desperate to feel the full intensity of lived experience, wh...

Review: Full Circle, by Jenny-May Clarkson

'Clarkson says receiving her kauae has been the most empowering experience of her life. “I know that peace comes from the fac...

Review: Before the Winter Ends, by Khadro Mohamed

'Mohamed transports readers through time, evoking the untamed beauty of the Pyramids of Giza—a place where Asha’s ghosts ling...

Review: Carved in Blood, by Michael Bennett

'Bennett has built another hurtling plot that's crammed with surprises. The Gods of Fiction forbid me from including any spoi...

Review: The Book of Guilt, by Catherine Chidgey

'All the children at the Sycamore Homes are orphans and they ‘sometimes felt poorly’, suffering from a mystery illness, which...

Review: 1985, by Dominic Hoey

'Everything readers have come to expect from Hoey is here. 1985 is acerbic, questioning, political, sometimes sentimental, b...

Interviews and ExtractsNgā Uiui me ngā Tīpakohanga

Author Q&As and extracts from up coming NZ books.

Extract: Dreamslinger, by Graci Kim

Extract: Wonderland, by Tracy Farr

Extract: The Good Mistress, by Anne Tiernan

ListenWhakarongo Mai

Listen to author interviews, reviews, and book news. Plus, read reviews about audiobooks by authors from Aotearoa.

Korean resilience and Kiwi optimism: Graci Kim

Graci Kim, award-winning author of the Last Fallen Star and Dreamslinger series, talks Korean resilience and Kiwi optimism, a...

WONDERLAND, winner of the NZSA Laura Solomon Prize

Louise O'Brien reviews Wonderland by Tracy Farr published by The Cuba Press....

Three heartwarming reads

Catherine Robertson recommends three new feel-good reads from New Zealand authors. ...

Children and Young AdultsNgā Pukapuka Tamariki

The latest picks for children's picture books, junior fiction and young adults.