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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.
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Review'Her story, which is quite remarkable in the years before she turned 20, becomes even more so when – after the Chicks go their separate ways – she becomes an award-winning solo art...
Reviewed by Graham Reid
19 October 2025
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Review'Horrocks’ characters have a self-aware physicality to them, whether they are at home in their bodies or not. Visuals of pregnancy, the visceral animal qualities of birth and its a...
Reviewed by Claire Williamson
14 October 2025
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Review'This book encourages close reading and gifting - between poems, collections, poets, and generations. The writing is rich and complex, yet offered in a way accessible to anyone wit...
Reviewed by Nicola Andrews
14 October 2025
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Review'This book is a monumental work on an important part of our history...'
Reviewed by David Veart
8 October 2025
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ReviewBecs Tetley takes a long look at STRONG WORDS 4, a collection of twenty essays selected by editor Lynley Edmeades from the Landfall 2023 and 2024 essay competitions.
Reviewed by Becs Tetley
8 October 2025
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Review'These words and phrases don't tell you only about our language. They're insights into our culture, both high and low. The 'Bugger' of that Toyota ad is here. So is 'hua', used so ...
Reviewed by David Hill
5 October 2025
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Review'The book is designed to be nibbled in bite-sized sections or consumed all at once, with the text nicely broken up by an array of amazing artwork from fifteen Aotearoa artists, as ...
Reviewed by Alex Eagles-Tully
2 October 2025
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ReviewNigel Latta's final book was released on the day he sadly died of terminal cancer. Angela Walker reflects on the LESSONS ON LIVING as a final gift.
Reviewed by Angela Walker
1 October 2025
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Review'It feels like a rare peek behind the curtain of what the mission of learning a new language can entail, particularly when that language is one you had a birth right to know, but n...
Reviewed by Isla Huia
24 September 2025
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Review'These are hard stories to ‘like’ but on the terms they have set, the parameters of the worlds Borrowdale has conjured, they command respect by needling at uncomfortable questions ...
Reviewed by Nat Baker
24 September 2025
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ReviewNgā arotake a ngā kaipānui tamariki. 'Ko ngā kupu hou ki a mātou, ka mutu, ka rata pai mātou ki ērā kupu, ko te tupuria, namunamuā, koropupū.'
Reviewed by Nā Te Aranga (11), Beau (8), Tirama (8) ,Te Aurere (10) i arotake
17 September 2025
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ReviewNgā arotake a ngā kaipānui tamariki. 'He pai ki a mātou nga kīwaha me ngā whakataukī pēnā i te, “ko tōku reo tōku ohooho, ko tōku reo tōku māpihi maurea.”'
Reviewed by Nā Eden (11), Titan (9), Ngakuru (10), Rumi (8) i arotake
17 September 2025
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ReviewNgā arotake a ngā kaipānui tamariki. 'Ko ētahi kupu hou ki a mātou, ko te tarakaka, ko te māminga, ko te manohi anō, ko te angiangi.'
Reviewed by Nā Ngahuia (8), Zara (11), Te Amio (8), Elijah (9) i arotake
15 September 2025
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ReviewNgā arotake a ngā kaipānui tamariki. 'He pai tēnei pukapuka ki a mātou nā te mea he pukukata, he momo pukapuka ki te ako mō te tiaki ngāngara...'
Reviewed by Nā Atareria (9), Maia (10), Amokura (9) i arotake
15 September 2025
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ReviewReviewed by Savannah Patterson
15 September 2025
Review'Hei whakakapi ake, he mārama te āhua o tā Hone whakatakoto i ngā kōrero. Kia pono, he uaua te wetereo, engari kāore ia e whakauaua ake i te kaupapa, e whakatoimaha rānei i a te ka...
Reviewed by Hēmi Kelly
14 September 2025
Review'There is something in this book for all learners of te reo Māori, regardless of your fluency level.'
Reviewed by Hēmi Kelly
14 September 2025
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ReviewSR Manssen is taken with the teenagers' quick wit and strength in Elizabeth Knox's latest YA novel KINGS OF THIS WORLD.
Reviewed by SR Manssen
8 September 2025
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ReviewKirsteen Ure considers the psychological harm of a reality TV programme setting in Fiona Sussman's latest crime novel, HOOKED UP.
Reviewed by Kirsteen Ure
7 September 2025
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Review'I laughed. I nodded. I wanted to hurl the book across the room and howl in rage when reading a doctor’s response to Corcoran Dye’s anxiety around having ‘failed’ at giving birth t...
Reviewed by Philippa Tucker
3 September 2025
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Review'I think it would be very good to be proper friends with Olivia Galletly. If her debut book THE HUNGRY COOK is anything to go by, not only would her fridge be full of good things t...
Reviewed by Lucy Corry
27 August 2025