It makes a good stock though.Ģ The Boy from Gorge River by Chris Long (HarperCollins, $39.99)ģ Matariki: The Star of the Year by Rangi Matamua (Huia Publishers, $35)Ĥ The Bookseller at the End of the World by Ruth Shaw (Allen & Unwin, $36.99)ĥ Letters to You by Jazz Thornton (Penguin Random House, $30)Ħ A Gentle Radical: The life of Jeanette Fitzsimons by Gareth Hughes (Allen & Unwin, $39.99)įrom my review, at ReadingRoom: "The first thing to say about Gareth Hughes as the political biographer of his friend and colleague Jeanette Fitzsimons is that he's obviously and uniformly the wrong man for the job, precisely because he was a friend and colleague there's no distance in this warm assessment, no criticism in this shining portrait the core of the book is a void, a meaninglessness, because Hughes is unable to function as any kind of objective witness. It was kind of yum but actually also kind of bland. I made one of Lim's recipes from Yum at Queen's Birthday Weekend – a boiled chook with celery and split peas. Graeme Lay captures this thrill beautifully in his new novel Larry & Viv": from a review by Carole Beu, of the Women's Bookshop.ġ0 The Fish by Lloyd Jones (Penguin Random House, $36) "What a thrill it must have been in 1948 to be able to attend performances of three different plays, here in New Zealand, from London's Old Vic Company. Woah! Plus, great cover.Ĩ Auē by Becky Manawatu (Makaro Press, $35)ĩ Larry & Viv by Graeme Lay (Renaissance Publishing, $34.99) On a remote island, a reclusive beekeeper discovers a dark secret that could destroy humanity. He could do without the demands of a cantankerous neighbour, the complaints of his partner back in Australia and discovering that someone is impersonating him online, stirring up the locals against him…A vivid novel about familial love and friendship."ħ The Last Beekeeper (The Vespling 1) by Jared Gulian (Waysout Press, $40) Publisher's blurbology: "Having returned to the Mackenzie Country to deal with the unexpected death of his brother, Roland has more than enough on his plate.
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People love it.Ģ Harbouring by Jenny Pattrick (Penguin Random House, $36)ģ The Leonard Girls by Deborah Challinor (HarperCollins, $36.99)Ĥ Greta and Valdin by Rebecca K Reilly (Victoria University Press, $35)ĥ How to Loiter In a Turf War by Coco Solid (Penguin Random House, $28)Ħ Winter Time by Laurence Fearnley (Penguin Random House, $36)Ī new Fearnley is always a literary event. In short: bravo to author Whiti Hereaka, for her retelling of the myth of the birdwoman of Mokoia Island.
But not in 2022 – with the added amazement that Kurangaituku is right now outselling a genre which is always catnip for New Zealand book buyers, in the shape of two historical novels ( Harbouring, and The Leonard Girls, below). Bookstores have greeted some previous Ockham fiction winners with a moan of "Ugh, whatever", because they knew it wouldn’t make a lick of difference to sales. Winning is no guarantee of commercial success. Oho! Number one for the third consecutive week – a remarkable achievement even given the good, good hype it got as winner of the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for fiction, announced at last month's Ockham New Zealand national book awards. This week's biggest-selling New Zealand books, as recorded by the Nielsen BookScan New Zealand bestseller list and described by Steve Brauniasġ Kurangaituku by Whiti Hereaka (Huia Publishers, $35) ReadingRoom This week’s best-selling books
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