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Book of the day: All the Perfect Days by Michael Thompson

Novel about a clairvoyant doctor is enjoyably lightweight.

Half Life: Tracing a Jewish family's unpalatable truths

Writer’s relentless search for toxic truth behind his German-Jewish family's WWII survival

Book of the day: Ordinary Love by Marie Rutkoski

Ages and stages of romantic love are explored in a tale of two women who meet at school.

Top 10 bestselling NZ books: June 21

The NZ books we've been buying this week.

Animal instincts: Nicholas Reid reviews new NZ poetry

Four new releases reviewed.

Three new crime reads for the long weekend

Drugs, gangs and missing persons feature in latest crime fiction.

Book of the day: Rain of Ruin: Tokyo, Horishima and the Surrender of Japan

Skies on fire: Mass bombing rather than atomic weapons defeated Japan.

Book of the day: The Listeners by Maggie Stiefvater

Romance and intrigue at a posh hotel accommodating enemy diplomats during World War II.

Book of the day: A Beautiful Family by Jennifer Trevelyan

Skilful narrative control and vivid authenticity help make local debut novel a winner.

Book of the day: Learning from the silence by Pico Iyer

Fires literal and metaphorical take centre stage in author’s tale of reflection.

So, is it any good? An in-depth review of the Jacinda Ardern memoir

Veteran Press Gallery journalist reviews former PM’s A Different Kind of Power.

Book of the day: Air by John Boyne

Final novel in Boyne’s elements series reflects on a broken marriage from 10,000 miles up.

Danyl McLauchlan on the new book that lays bare Joe Biden’s decline

Damning picture of declining President surrounded by insiders insisting he’s fit and well.

Top 10 bestselling NZ books: May 31

The NZ books we've been buying this week.

Book of the day: Sword by Max Hastings

Max Hastings examines the British army’s role on D-Day.

Book of the day: Always Homes, Always Homesick by Hannah Kent

A satisfyingly nuanced back story to Aussie writer’s smash debut, Burial Rites.