Review: The extraordinary romance that blossomed amid Auschwitz’s horrific ‘conveyor belt’ of death
US journalist writes about 'death camp' romantic relationship, never before documented.
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Rachael King’s first children’s book in more than 10 years defies categorisation
Author creates a touch of magic with story spun around shape-shifting kelpies.
Review: The Bullet Swallower reads like a superior Western, with firearms aimed at the US
Magical realism at the heart of sweeping intergenerational saga set on US-Mexico border.
Book takes: Show me the money - how colonial NZ was all about wealth accumulation
Money talks - and it talked loudly during European settlement of NZ.
2024 NZ Booklovers Awards finalists announced
The NZ Booklovers Awards recognise books often neglected by higher profile Ockham Awards.
New crime books: Hollywood exposed, an investigative trio returns, and James Lee Burke is back
Craig Sisterson relishes the latest crime and thriller releases.
Review: Is debut thriller Anna O this year’s Girl on a Train?
Matthew Blake's zeitgeisty Anna O is full of promise but loses its way.
What’s new in poetry?
Feminist perceptions, existentialism, the sea and thoughts from a tortured mind.
Review: Famed South Korean writer returns with more dystopian short stories
Speculative and horror fiction voice outside the usual UK-US-European axis is refreshing.
Book takes: Author Chanel Contos on the prevalence of rape culture and the solution to it
Consent Laid Bare has been described as a game-changing book on sex and consent.
Top 10 best-selling New Zealand books: February 10
Veteran NZ writer takes top spot with eagerly-awaited new release.
Review: First-time novelist Freddie Gillies’ Because All Fades is a trip worth taking
Readers journey with four young expats on satisfying, if tense, Italian road trip.
Review: Sparks fires up compelling stories of those defying Chinese Communist party line
China's underground historians battle for the future by exposing the past.
Review: Kiwi expat’s debut novel inspired by Aussie literary icon
Amy Brown delivers a multilayered, literary-minded debut novel.
Review: Art imitates life for roguish Irish writer John Banville
John Banville, as inventive as ever at the age of 78, is playing with us mere mortals.
Book takes: The ultrawild and whacky inventions which might just save the world
Author Steve Mushin on why he's ultra excited about the potential for radical innovation.
Ockham NZ Book Awards longlist announced - who will win and who should win?
Mark Broatch casts his eye over the finalists for NZ's most prestigious book awards.
Review: Kiley Reid’s intricate, wide-ranging new campus novel
Money is at the heart of this intersection of class, race and desire.
Review: Exploration of noise will open minds to the world of sounds in nature and beyond
Caspar Henderson's A Book of Noises is a catalogue of curiosities ranging across sound.
Meet the bright new stars of NZ fiction
Introducing the new NZ novelists you'll be hearing from in 2024.
Book takes: Why does cuteness have such a power over us - and could it prove dangerous in the AI future?
Joshua Paul Dale on Irresistible - and how the "cute factor" helped alter human behaviour.
Short cuts: Mark Broatch rounds up 3 new books
A mind-bending spy novel, cuteness, and the young Joseph Banks feature in new releases.
Why I made: How a miscarriage led to a law change and a literary adventure
Writer Kathryn van Beek on why her pick your own adventure book is more like real life.
Summer reads: WWII dramas and a rollicking Aussie romance
Different experiences of WWII and a lively read from Australia in latest summer reads.
Review: Real-life adventure story mapping the world’s unexplored seabed
Laura Trethewey on the race to map the world’s unexplored seabed.
Review: Award-winning writer explores American slavery in all its horror
Jesmyn Ward's first historical fiction Let Us Descend is not for the faint-hearted.
Review: Music-loving novelist Michel Faber on the psychology and sociology behind the sounds that keep us hooked
Michel Faber: "The music we love is our billboard to the world."
Book takes: How Māori ceramic artists have changed perceptions of art
Clay artist Baye Riddell on his book Ngā Kaihanga Uku – Māori Clay Artists.