Writer: Katy Soljak.

Gala is fleeing a relationship. With her guitar and daughter in tow, she leaves LA and takes the bus to Texas. Three days later she arrives at midnight with only a few dollars in her pocket and a single phone number. Will she be able to find sanctuary, love and fortune in this unfamiliar country where people struggle to even understand her accent

November 2022 release

Writer: R. V. Bayley.

Barefoot is a moving, evocative story of two people in love: one stranded in the new reality of the local war effort, the other in the stifling deserts and desolate battlegrounds of far-off lands; lands where danger is always just around the corner and death can snatch you in the blink of an eye.

October 2022 release

Writer: Lauren Roche.

Powerful yet tender and beautifully imagined, Mila and the Bone Man unites enduring love with the power of healing. A novel about guilt, forgiveness and finding your way home. And the secrets we keep to protect those we love the most.

September 2022 release

Writer: Paddy Richardson.

By The Green Of The Spring is the gripping story of lives changed forever by war, the hurts suffered, the losses borne, and the secrets kept, yet it is also the story of the capacity of the human spirit to endure, to hope and to love.

August 2022 release

Writer: Fifi Colston.

Fifi Colston talks about Masher, about the adventures of a boy who accidentally creates a barking-mad glove puppet, with sharp teeth, a fierce attitude and an unpredictable mouth?

May 2022 release

Author: Bill Nagelkerke. Reviewer: Alex Eagles.

Bill Nagelkerke has a knack for using creative perspectives and the paranormal as a recurring theme in his work. Both are used well in The Ghost House.

October 2022 release

Author: Renée. Reviewer: Jessie Neilson.

Blood Matters is a solid read, vivaciously told, outlining any small town in New Zealand through which we may have travelled while on our way to more popular destinations.

November 2022 release

He Arotake: A message for Nasty Nā: Hannah Tunnicliffe

August 2022 release

Extract from: Tails of Tangleby Gardens by Sue Heazlewood with illustrations by Jane Smith (Auckram Publishing).

The adventures of whimsical woodland creatures share the pages with a series of recipes in this delightful children’s story and cookbook.

September 2022 release

Author: Margaret Mahy. Illustrator: Minrui Yang. Reviewer: Dionne Christian.

Drawing on the power of Margaret Mahy earns emerging illustrators top prize.

August 2022 release

Author: James Russell. Reviewer: Dionne Christian.

Best-selling author James Russell returns with with a new series, Children of the Rush, and it’s so good that it won a Storylines Notable Book Award before it was officially released.

November 2022 release

Reviewer: Dionne Christian.

Recommended reads with pictures: Have you seen tomorrow? Īhaka and the Unexpected Visitor. There are no moa, e hoa. Who Took the Toilet Paper?

2022 releases

Author: James Norcliffe. Reviewer: Sarah Forester.

An expertly told ghost story is a thing to behold, and James Norcliffe has done an exceptional job of reeling his readers in and paying out the line with his latest book, The Crate.

October 2022 release

Reviewer: Dionne Christian.

Cats and dogs make for amusing new picture books: Jiffy’s Greatest Hits, Kittens of Caturn Go On Holiday and My Real Dog.

2022 releases

Author: John Evan Harris. Reviewer: Cullen Wilson.

The Physician’s Gun is more than an action-packed western. It has grit, wild spirit and a uniquely compelling story ripped out of Aotearoa’s colonial past.

October 2022 release

Reviewer: Dionne Christian.

Recommended reads with pictures: One Weka Went Walking, The Grandmother’s of Pikitea Street/Ngā Kuia o te Tiriti o Pikitea, Moonlight Mission and The Grizzled Grist Does Not Exist.

2022 releases

Author: Kōtuku Titihuia Nuttall. Reviewer: Jane Lowe.

Tauhou is an inventive exploration of Indigenous families, womanhood, and alternate post-colonial realities by a writer of Māori and Coast Salish descent.

November 2022 release

Author: Paul Cleave. Reviewer: Greg Fleming.

So far, 2022 has been a year rich for locally penned thrillers. Just in time for Christmas comes Paul Cleave’s The Pain Tourist to add to that list.

November 2022 release

Author: Monty Soutar. Na: Dan Rabarts.

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September 2022 release

Author: Colleen Maria Lenihan. Reviewer: Elizabeth Heritage.

Linked through recurring characters and themes, the haunting stories in Kōhine hurtle us into the streets of Tokyo and small-town New Zealand. The secular city of salarymen, sex workers and schoolgirls is juxtaposed with rongoā healers, lone men and rural matriarchs of Aotearoa.

August 2022 release