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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.

Top 10 best-selling New Zealand books: February 3

What books were NZers buying this week?

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: 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.

Top 10 best-selling New Zealand books: January 20

What is New Zealand reading this week?

Short story: Blackcurrants by Majella Cullinane

The last in our summer collection of short stories by top NZ writers.

Short story: Crushers by Emma Hislop

Each summer, Aotearoa’s finest writers share short stories with us.

Back cover story: The not-so-subtle art of selling books

You may not notice them, but book blurbs are crucial to your reading experience.