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Top 10 best-selling New Zealand books: July 7

Latest best-sellers include a cat’s wild adventure, AB memoir and self-help ADHD guide.

Review: A new history of world culture is still educational - even if it’s selective

Is it possible to traverse the evolution of cultures during human history on one volume?

Review: Rip-roaring account of an 18th-century mission gone wrong

Where does duty end and survival begin, David Grann asks in his harrowing account.

Review: The rise and fall of former All Black star uncovered in memoir

Searing honesty marks Hayman’s bleak story of star whose life has gone tragically wrong.

Review: Tense new novels from three leading thriller writers

One novel is a "strong contender for best of the year."

How crime genre pioneer Walter Mosley defied expectations

The iconic author has had nearly 60 books published in his career since 1990.

Author's sweeping family saga novel has its roots in his mother’s childhood memories

Does the work deserve the commitment of time or is it simply grandiose bloviation?

Review: Why the relationship between Russia and China is so important to the world

Philip Snow's new history book discusses Moscow and Beijing reforging their relationship.

Book extract: Let’s reconsider if keeping pets is what’s best for them

What is keeping furry friends as pets doing to the animals and the world we live in?

Haunting account of a friend’s life destroyed by schizophrenia

He was seen as role model for mental illness. Years later he killed his pregnant fiancée.

Author Joe Bennett turns his first three decades into a memoir

The columnist shares anecdotes about his childhood, career and sexuality.

Review: How two spooks and a chip shop owner brokered peace in Northern Ireland

Although UK spies have prominence, there's little doubt chip shop owner is hero of story.

Review: A look at microbial diseases and their impacts on human histroy

Writer entices reader into each “plague” chapter with analogies from modern culture.

Review: Three powerful women bonded by their time together in the French court

'Young Queens' is the latest in a recent flurry of books by female historians.

Review: A science writer’s case for taking a long-term view of the world

Fisher argues adopting a longer perspective can help tackle slow-burning threats fairly.

The rise of Edmonds: Archived photos of the NZ baking brand

A photo extract from Sure to Rise: The Edmonds Story.

Review: The uncomfortable truths in Dr Emma Espiner’s medical memoir

The most compelling chapters related to Espiner’s experience as a Māori doctor.

Author Sue McCauley doesn’t stick to convention in her new novel

The 81-year-old has plenty to say on society and ageing in her new novel Landed.