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raw, hilarious and so lifelike I kept forgetting I wasn't reading about real people. I felt every frustration, every high and every low as if these women were my friends. A heartfelt, funny, unforgettable read. I loved it. - Rachael Johnswww.nzbooklovers.co.nz interview with Elisabeth Easther extrac...

www.kirkusreviews.com, 2025 Starred ReviewThe best book Jong-Fast could have written about the worst year of her life.A brutally funny mother-daughter memoir that asks the question, How can you lose something you never had?Molly Jong-Fast is the only child of Erica Jong, author of the feminist autob...

2025 Storylines Notable Book Award winnerStorylines Notable Non-fiction (age range from 3 years to 18 years)www.storylines.org.nz, Storylines Notable Book Award 2025Meet Dame Whina Cooper, the kuia who championed Māori rights and women's rights and led a famous hīkoi for positive change. The true...

Aaron Becker, award-winning creator of the stunning Journey, presents the next chapter in his luminous wordless fantasy."Original, modern and nostalgic. Worth turning it all off for." The Times"Eloquently shows the power of imagination and inventive thinking." Children's Books Ireland"Visually stunn...

2025 Storylines Notable Book Award winnerStorylines Notable Junior Fiction (age range from 7 years to 13 years)www.storylines.org.nz, Storylines Notable Book Award 2025Violet and her friends form a school rock band and are super excited to compete until a ghost threatens to stop the competition!'Rac...

"Ngarewa is a storyteller. His writing style reminds me of listening to the whaikōrero at a pōwhiri - there's action and cheekiness, hyperbole, a rollercoaster of pace and plenty of tension."Reviewed by Rebekah Lyell from www.nzbooklovers.co.nzMuru is not revenge. Muru is about balance. You put yo...

2025 Storylines Notable Book Award winnerStorylines Notable Picture Books (age range from birth to 8 years)www.storylines.org.nz, Storylines Notable Book Awards 2025An exploration of life on a New Zealand farm during a long, dry spell.Through lyrical rhyming text, readers are taken on a journey acro...

Read by Karen & Rowena; A very powerful and gripping novel set during the 1960's, the Vietnam war and the years that followed in America. Following extraordinary journey of a young inexperienced nurse, Frances "Frankie" McGrath, who enlists in the Army Nurse Corps.Frankie is plunged into the chaos...

Rowena agrees with Chris’s review and especially enjoyed Te Kahukura Boynton’s narration. Each chapter includes a wānanga with reflective questions, and in the paperback there’s space to write responses. One of her main ako (learnings) from the book is that ako never stops — and that’s so...

WINNER OF THE 2025 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE"Max Porter, International Booker Prize 2025 Chair of judges, says:‘Heart Lamp is something genuinely new for English readers. A radical translation which ruffles language, to create new textures in a plurality of Englishes. It challenges and expands ou...

Andrea Molloy from nzbooklovers.co.nz wrote "Nigel’s writing has always been witty and demystifying and Lessons on Living is his most personal yet. He turns clinical insight onto his own crisis, which frames the book, and uses his trademark humour to keep it light, without losing depth."To read th...

to visit www.rnz.co.nz interview with Suzanne Lynch. A wonderful interview by Jese, afternoons, 7 October 2025 and Suzanne sang too.In the Listener, 4th October 2025, Rowena read, an interesting article about Suzanne's 60 years in the music industry. The article called "And your bird can sing" by Ru...