The Best of the Best: must reads from this month’s fiction selection
The following titles have been chosen from our monthly new fiction selections. They are all highly recommended for great reading. The wish child / Catherine Chidgey. This wonderfully authentic novel is...
View ArticleNew ‘Other Genres’ this month featuring translated novels
Some fabulous reading entertainment from around the world is provided in this month’s selection of new ‘Other Genres’ fiction. There is a wide range of translated novels, from Sweden, Germany, France,...
View ArticleThe best of the best: must reads from this month’s fiction selection
The following titles have been chosen from our monthly new fiction selections. They are all highly recommended for great reading. Inch levels / Neil Hegarty. A poetic, wonderful debut novel, about the...
View ArticleNew Zealand stories – New ‘Other Genres’ for February
New Zealand writers are featured in this month’s ‘Other Genres’ selection of new material. There are several historical novels that bring into focus New Zealand’s political, cultural and social...
View ArticleNew ‘Other Genres’ fiction featuring debut novelists
This month’s ‘Other Genres’ category features debut novelists, with three first novels from Australian writers. There is a wide variation of theme, from historical to psychological thrillers, chic lit...
View ArticleThe Best of the Best: must reads from the latest fiction selections
The following titles have been chosen from our monthly new fiction selections. This time we have a bumper selection of books, chosen from arrivals in recent weeks. They are all highly recommended for...
View ArticleNew ‘Other Genre’ for April, this month features psychological thrillers
This month’s ‘Other Genre’ fiction category features psychological thrillers. These novels will ensure the reader is gripped in suspense, with at times moments of unease and menace. Highly recommended...
View ArticleNew ‘Other Genres’ this month featuring New Zealand fiction
This month’s ‘Other Genres’ selection features New Zealand writers. Here is a wonderful collection of talented skilful writing, from debut novelists, such as Bonnie Etherington and Sarah Schmidt, to...
View ArticleThe best of the best: must reads from this month’s fiction selections
The following titles have been chosen from our monthly new fiction selections. They are all highly recommended for great reading The earth cries out / Bonnie Etherington. An exciting, brilliantly...
View ArticleNew ‘Other Genres’, this month featuring Historical Fiction
Recently received historical novels are featured in this month’s ‘Other Genres’ category. Included are three translated historical novels, and the latest novel by Colm Toibin, a re-working of Greek...
View ArticleNew ‘Other Genre’ fiction for July featuring NZ writers
New Zealand writers are featured in this month’s ‘Other Genres’ category. This selection highlights the diversity of subject and genres in New Zealand fiction, from historical to science fiction,...
View ArticleThe best of the best: must reads from this month’s fiction selections
The following titles have been chosen from our monthly new fiction selections. They are all highly recommended for great reading Into the water / Paula Hawkins. Another brilliant, complex spine...
View ArticleNew Short Stories in August
This month we have selected new short story collections as the feature for our ‘Other Genres’ category. Included are three anthologies, one from Canada, with fictional stories about climate change,...
View ArticleFrom Kilbirnie to Kapiti and beyond: New NZ fiction
New Zealand writers are the feature of this month’s ‘Other Genres’ category. There is much variation of genre in this selection, with mysteries, psychological thrillers, science fiction, historical,...
View ArticleMust reads from this month’s fiction selections
The following titles have been chosen from our monthly new fiction selections. They are all highly recommended for great reading. A wonderfully rendered retelling of this exciting classic novel. One...
View ArticleRead around the globe: New translated fiction
Translated novels feature in this month’s selection of ‘Other Genres’ fiction. With some wonderful novels, translated from Swedish, Mandarin, Norwegian, Japanese, Spanish, French, Turkish and...
View ArticleNZ writers feature in our latest ‘other genre’ fiction picks
This is the fourth ‘other genres’ selection featuring New Zealand writers this year. There has been an amazing number of novels from new and well known writers published this year. Included in this...
View ArticleThese short stories are perfect for summer holidays
This month, short stories are the feature of our ‘Other Genres’ category of fiction recent picks. There are collections from many much acclaimed writers including William Boyd, Helen Garner, P.D. James...
View ArticleNew fiction featuring New Zealand writers
New Zealand writers are the feature of this month’s ‘other genre’ category. Included are the most recent novels from Catherine Chidgey and Catherine Robertson. Also after many years there is a...
View ArticleThrillers feature in this month’s novels from other genres
Featuring this month in our ‘other genre’ category we have selected fiction from the thriller genre. These are guaranteed reading for ardent fans of tension and suspense, and at times not for the faint...
View ArticleHistorical fiction features in this month’s fiction picks from other genres
The ‘other genres’ category this month features historical fiction. This latest selection includes a new novel by the popular, prolific Bernard Cornwell. Highly recommend is the much praised debut...
View ArticleCatch up on the latest fiction from New Zealand writers
New Zealand writers are featured in this month’s ‘Other Genres’ selection of new material. There are several historical novels that bring into focus New Zealand’s political, cultural and social...
View ArticleThe best of the best: must reads from this month’s fiction selections
The following titles have been chosen from our monthly new fiction selections. They are all highly recommended for great reading. Rinse, spin, repeat : a graphic memoir of loss and survival / Edith...
View ArticleThe best of the best: must reads from recent fiction selections
The following titles have been chosen from our monthly new fiction selections. They are all highly recommended for great reading. Zero K : a novel / Don DeLillo. “A wonderfully funny, moving novel from...
View ArticleThe best of the best: must reads from this month’s fiction selections
The following titles have been chosen from our monthly new fiction selections. They are all highly recommended for great reading. The ice beneath her / Camilla Grebe ; translated by Elizabeth Clark...
View ArticleThe Best of the Best: must reads from this month’s fiction selections
The following titles have been chosen from our monthly new fiction selections. They are all highly recommended for great reading. I’d walk with my friends if I could find them / Jesse Goolsby. This is...
View ArticleThe best of the best: must reads from this October’s fiction selections
The following titles have been chosen from our monthly new fiction selections. They are all highly recommended for great reading. Undermajordomo Minor / Patrick deWitt. This highly recommended novel is...
View ArticleThe best of the best: must reads from this month’s fiction selections
The following titles have been chosen from our monthly new fiction selections. They are all highly recommended for great reading. Clockwork lives / Kevin J. Anderson and Neil Peart ; illustrations by...
View ArticleThe best of the best: must reads from January’s fiction selections
The following titles have been chosen from our monthly new fiction selections. They are all highly recommended for great reading. I’m travelling alone / Samuel Bjork ; translated from the Norwegian by...
View ArticleThe best of the best: must reads from recent fiction selections
The following titles have been chosen from our monthly new fiction selections. They are all highly recommended for great reading. Yuki Chan in Bronte country / Mick Jackson. A delightful, witty story,...
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