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Read our independent reviews of the latest books from Aotearoa.
Pānuihia ā mātou arotakenga tūhake o ngā pukapuka hou nō Aotearoa.
ReviewOut of a modest beginning grew the most formidable professional club entity rugby has ever seen. Matt McIlraith explores the club's first 25-years, dissecting key moments, the suc...
Reviewed by Ali Ikram
15 March 2021
ReviewAuthor: Ingrid Horrocks. Reviewer: Hannah Tunnicliffe.Beautiful, surprising, mysterious, deep and reflective, Where We Swim is a book that is much like the bodies of water we never...
Reviewed by Hannah Tunnicliffe
10 March 2021
ReviewTwelve extraordinary tales of disappearance: a collection of true crime writing by New Zealand's award-winning master of non-fiction is a riveting, one-sitting read.
Reviewed by Greg Fleming
10 March 2021
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ReviewAuthor: Vincent O’Sullivan. Reviewer: Paula Green. Things OK with you? is Vincent O’Sullivan’s first collection of poems since Being Here: Selected Poems (2015) and And So It Is: N...
Reviewed by Paula Green
8 March 2021
ReviewIn Bluffworld we are taken through the bildung of a master-bluffer, from his early days spent plagiarising student essays to his magisterial later lectures on the opening sentence ...
Reviewed by David Hill
8 March 2021
ReviewAn epic fantasy set in a land of sultans and kings, sumptuous palaces... and slave markets. When Elowen and her brother are seized by pirates and sold, separately, in the slave mar...
Reviewed by Link Pickering
8 March 2021
ReviewIn this moving historical romance, the dreams of two young lovers are shattered when a small nation at the ripple-edge of the world is plunged into war.
Reviewed by Maggie Trapp
4 March 2021
ReviewFleur Adcock’s poems are gifts sent to readers: intricacies to travel with, original thinking to delight in, poetry to dawdle over and savour.
Reviewed by Paula Green
1 March 2021
ReviewBurnout leads to personal health and financial issues, organisational costs in lost productivity and sick leave, and national costs when it comes to healthcare services and similar...
Reviewed by Lauren Keenan
1 March 2021
ReviewAuthor: Shilo Kino. Reviewer: TK Roxborogh (review translated by Parekura Pēwhairangi) Niko lives in a small, rural town with a sacred hot spring – and a taniwha named Taukere. The...
Reviewed by TK Roxborogh
24 February 2021
ReviewThe Disinvent Movement is a brilliantly original and poignant first novel, both elliptical and direct, about how we dismantle and remake our stories – and re-cast the people who oc...
Reviewed by Renee Liang
24 February 2021
ReviewWhen the Canterbury Earthquakes destroyed their city, Natalie and her friends were only ten years old. Too old to forget, but too young to be heard, they have never told their stor...
Reviewed by Ruth Spencer
22 February 2021
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ReviewVincent O’Sullivan. Nā Matariki Williams tēnei arotakenga. Nā Parekura Pēwhairangi i whakamāori.20 October 2020 release
Reviewed by Matariki Williams
18 February 2021
Review.On the periphery of Aotearoa New Zealand’s publishing scene, there is a rich and varied cottage industry of small press publishers pushing the boundaries of book-making. Despite ...
Reviewed by Kiran Dass
17 February 2021
ReviewAuthor: Danyl McLauchlan. Reviewer: Sam Finnemore. Danyl McLauchlan wanted to get closer to the hidden truth of things. But it was starting to look like the hidden truth of things ...
Reviewed by Sam Finnemore
17 February 2021
ReviewJesse O's award-winning novel about a deadly pandemic and a family in lockdown, rereleased with all new illustrations by Toby Morris.
Reviewed by Angelique Kasmara
15 February 2021
Review.In this transformative book, 24 Māori academics share their personal journeys, revealing what being Māori has meant for them in their work. Their perspectives provide insight for ...
Reviewed by Atakohu Middleton
11 February 2021
ReviewAuthor: Ruby Solly. Reviewer: Arihia Latham. Tōku Pāpā is a book that serves as a map of survival for Māori growing up outside of their papakāika. These poems look at how we take t...
Reviewed by Arihia Latham
10 February 2021
ReviewAuthor: Victor Billot. Reviewer: Michael Steven. Dunedin poet Victor Billot finds in the South Pacific Ocean an oracle of the future and a keeper of our histories. February 2021 re...
Reviewed by Michael Steven
8 February 2021
ReviewSteady is for anyone wanting to strengthen their capacity to ride the possible coming waves of Covid-19 — as well as life’s general ups and downs — with more calm, ease and a sense...
Reviewed by Lauren Keenan
3 February 2021
ReviewFor more than three decades, Karl Maughan has created intricately painted gardenscapes, developing his own visual language to explore the forms of nature and the nature of form.
Reviewed by Peter Simpson
3 February 2021