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Terra Nova: Fascinating new insights into doomed Antarctic expedition

The crucial role of a feud between two officers in Scott's ill-fated Terra Nova expedition

Mad, bad & dangerous: Why you should read fiction that challenges you

Young minds are being sheltered from "dangerous" fiction, but should they be?

Girl with a Pearl Earring author’s time-bending new novel

Tracy Chevalier’s returns with twisty novel about Venetian glassblowers.

Aussie author Louise Le Nay’s Edenhope has all the feels

A woman escapes with her neglected grandkids in a cheering road trip across Australia.

Stuff of fantasy: The Kiwi authors earning big overseas

They may fly under the radar, but a growing number of Kiwi authors are in huge demand glob

Mortality, memory and Tarot cards: What's with our new poetry collections?

Some readers might find poems in this collection difficult to decode.

Could musical instrument origin stories rewrite Māori, Moriori history?

Book takes: New notes on the ancient origins of traditional instruments.

Top 10 best-selling NZ books: June 29

Matariki makes it mark on top 10 books.

Short cuts: Three books to check out this weekend

Biographies with a twist make for intriguing reading.

How Rachel Cusk’s 12th novel Parade pushes fiction’s boundaries

It’s a novel designed to get the reader off balance, even compared to her previous work.

Three hot crime books for cold winter nights

Sidekicks with stories, violent acts in a small town, and a Halloween deadline.

Exuberant historical fiction proves you shouldn’t judge a book by its title

The Hazelbourne Ladies Motorcycle and Flying Club is a chunky chronicle of post-WWI lives.

Is nostalgia a dangerous emotion - or can embracing it make you happier?

Nostalgia was once a medical term describing an illness that could, and did, kill people.

Three new historical fiction novels reveal hidden struggles

Latest historical fiction shares themes of forgotten voices but unbreakable spirits.

Long Island: Colm Tóibín’s engaging Brooklyn sequel

Tóibín’s heroine Eilis Lacey returns to the Irish life she abandoned 20 years earlier.

Unravelling ambitions: Joseph O’Neill’s Goodwin baffles and frustrates

A story of comeuppance for self-serving brothers in shifty world of football scouting.