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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'this book is about / a glow in the dark / statue of the virgin mary / with a busted nose / a red ribbon shoelace / a queer torso slick with glitter / a hell-bound harlot...'
Reviewed by Erica Stretton
19 August 2024
ReviewJake Arthur tackles the riotous nature of the 1909 Rider Waite tarot deck in his second collection, Tarot.
Reviewed by Erica Stretton
18 August 2024
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Review“You will find me in the meeting point between open seas and solid land, in the seam of sky and earth, between what you think you know and what you don’t...”
Reviewed by Natasha Lampard
15 August 2024
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ReviewScott Denby is on a search for answers. He knows they're out there, and if he falls into YouTube on the way, nae's the bother. He's grieving, he needs time... but what will he find...
Reviewed by Erica Stretton
14 August 2024
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Review'Much of the book reads like te reo Māori transposed into English, with the structures and features of our reo, our worldview and our thinking pushed through the prism of our new t...
Reviewed by Jade Kake
14 August 2024
Review'Memoir is combined with data to create a complex, nuanced description of how rural Aotearoa New Zealand, both Māori and Pākehā, lived and ate between 1800 and 1940...'
Reviewed by David Veart
13 August 2024
ReviewSnakes on the page: Libby (11) and her mum Kirsteen discuss book one in the new Miles and Jones graphic novel series.
Reviewed by Kirsteen Ure and Libby Timmins (11)
12 August 2024
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Review'The book gets off to a cracking start, with a suspected murderer — Scottish body-snatcher William Hare — escaping the death penalty in Edinburgh and being set loose to wander who ...
Reviewed by Sarah Ell
6 August 2024
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Review'Chisholm leads the reader straight into the realities of farming life, hilariously and accurately describing the frustration of moving lambs just a day after weaning them from the...
Reviewed by Wendy Macaskill
6 August 2024
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Review'Cousins Pipi and Pou, aided by their Nana, are kaitiaki of the environment. They protect the natural world using their shapeshifting abilities, transforming into a pouākai and a t...
Reviewed by Fleur (12)
5 August 2024
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Review'Trials and tribulations occur as the team is transferred to the ice at a headland they name Cape Dennison, and begin to build the base they’ll stay in for most of the year. The re...
Reviewed by Erica Stretton
31 July 2024
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Review'O’Neill has done a brilliant job of portraying the total mess the three main characters ... have made of their lives as they navigate life and friendship.'
Reviewed by Carole Brungar
30 July 2024
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Review'If you think you’ve figured out who did it in a Pomare novel, well sorry, but you’re probably wrong...'
Reviewed by Greg Fleming
30 July 2024
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Review'Like the Sherlocks, the novels’ authors are police officers turned book shop owners. Gareth and Louise Ward, too, are originally from England, and have made their home in Hawke's ...
Reviewed by Jessie Neilson
23 July 2024
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Review'Sight Lines features a wide range of contributors, and it is this genuine polyphony of voices that defines the book. Baker, in this sense, is a weaver, stitching together the cont...
Reviewed by Jade Kake
21 July 2024
Review'Thrust into circumstances she didn’t ask for and doesn’t like, Māreikura Pohe is frustrated and disconnected'
Reviewed by Damien Levi
17 July 2024
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ReviewAccidental courtroom lurker Steve Braunias brings the gavel down on his terrific trilogy of true crime books, grappling with himself alongside his investigations into the variegate...
Reviewed by Craig Sisterson
15 July 2024
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Review'Feltham’s debut collection, Bad Archive, features thirteen intricate essays that explore the space between what remains and what happened. ‘How do you plunge your eyes and hands i...
Reviewed by Becs Tetley
10 July 2024
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Review'Cooking, or “the clatter of cockles, the sizzle of bacon, the blipblap of something simmering”, is an essential ingredient in Nici Wickes' recipe for a contented life. Why rush to...
Reviewed by Lucy Corry
8 July 2024
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Review'Migration has echoes of things I know: the word ‘ngāti’ attributed to different groups of people in the same way as we’d have the British class system, and ‘māma’ and ‘pāpā’ for m...
Reviewed by Tania Roxborogh
2 July 2024
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Review'Eleanor Preston – aka Nell – is born in 1897 on a South Island sheep farm homestead. During childhood, her world is the blue mystery of the hills, the sense of accomplishment of m...
Reviewed by Claire Williamson
1 July 2024