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Top 10 bestselling NZ books: May 17

Catherine Chidgey's latest takes top spot after just one week on sale.

Book of the day: We’re Not Us Without You by Christine Keighery

Tale of a guru’s influence on friends who share a secret lacks sufficient charisma.

Book of the day: Fire & Ice by Hazel Phillips - a compelling exploration of NZ’s oldest national park

Insightful account of human adventure in the Volcanic Plateau and its playgrounds.

Book of the day: Dominic Hoey's 1985 has all the hallmarks of a future NZ classic

Novelist-poet Dominic Hoey’s latest dwells on trying to get ahead in the big city.

Mission critical: Expert eye on frightening fallacies and fantasies behind tech titans’ AI visions

Hot air rising? The Trump-led tech bro space race gets debunked.

What to know before the Ockham Book Awards are announced next week

A cheat sheet to the Ockham finalists (and what we wrote about the books).

Top 10 bestselling NZ books: May 10

The NZ books we've been buying this week.

Book of the day: The Pretender by Jo Harkin

A take on the fascinating true story of a man who would be king falls short.

Miramar surprise hideaway in imaginative retelling of Marie Curie

Book of the day: Wonderland by Tracy Farr.

Book of the day: My Name is Emilia del Valle by Isabel Allende

Allende follows-up on debut novel The House of the Spirits nearly four decades on.

The man who emerged at liberation was a very different being: Art historian remembers her father

Mary Kisler's raw and personal account of her father’s rage-filled struggle with trauma.

Book of the day: Moral Ambition by Rutger Bregman

Dutch writer-activist delivers provocative guide to how to make the world a better place.

When the Going was Good: An editor’s adventures during the last golden age of magazines

One of the magazine world’s giants looks back.

Top 10 bestselling NZ books: April 19

The local books we've been buying this week.

Book of the day: How the World Made the West by Josephine Quinn

Idea that the 'civilised West' began with Greeks and Romans ignores earlier cultures.

Book of the day: Crush by Ada Calhoun

Novel about polyamory morphs into a veiled account of real-life marriage split.