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An imaginative collaboration between writer and artist that pairs 'classical mathematical theory with te ao Māori' - Kelly Ana Morey reviews YOU ARE HERE by Whiti Hereaka and Peata Larkin Massey Uni Press Read NZ Te Pou Muramura NZ Society of Authors Whiti “Starstar Stanza” Hereaka nzreviewofbooks.com/you-are-here-b…

'Precision and provocation' in a debut collection that earns its place in a 'bold Pasifika poetry canon' - Ruby Macomber reviews BLACK SUGARCANE by Nafanua Purcell Kersel Te Herenga Waka University Press Read NZ Te Pou Muramura NZ Society of Authors Booksellers Aotearoa nzreviewofbooks.com/black-sugarcan…

A portrait of 'one of our greatest painters' who 'wanted to find a new visual language for what it meant to live in the Pacific' - Hamish Coney reviews TONY FOMISON: LIFE OF THE ARTIST by Mark Forman Auckland University Press Read NZ Te Pou Muramura NZ Society of Authors Booksellers Aotearoa nzreviewofbooks.com/tony-fomison-l…

The boyhood stories of an artist of 'febrile imagination' - Stephanie Johnson reviews HASTINGS: A BOY'S OWN ADVENTURE by Dick Frizzell Massey Uni Press Read NZ Te Pou Muramura NZ Society of Authors Booksellers Aotearoa nzreviewofbooks.com/hastings-a-boy…

A 'twisting psychological thriller' about the rich and infamous in a 'ridiculously entertaining' debut - Rebecca Hill reviews SEE HOW THEY FALL by Rachel Paris Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand Read NZ Te Pou Muramura NZ Society of Authors Booksellers Aotearoa nzreviewofbooks.com/see-how-they-f…

Poetry exploring grief and desire offers a 'deeply sensuous experience' - Sophie van Waardenberg reviews THE INTIMACY BUS by Janet Charman. Read the full review at: nzreviewofbooks.com/the-intimacy-b… Otago University Press Read NZ Te Pou Muramura NZ Society of Authors Booksellers Aotearoa

A 'compulsively readable' debut story collection - Di Starrenburg reviews SURPLUS WOMEN by Michelle Duff Te Herenga Waka University Press Read NZ Te Pou Muramura NZ Society of Authors Booksellers Aotearoa nzreviewofbooks.com/surplus-women-…

An alternate history 'that not only entertains but acts as a warning' - Stephanie Johnson reviews THE BOOK OF GUILT by Catherine Chidgey Te Herenga Waka University Press Catherine Chidgey Read NZ Te Pou Muramura NZ Society of Authors Booksellers Aotearoa nzreviewofbooks.com/the-book-of-gu…

The post-war world as a 'truly lonely place' for a POW - Guy Somerset reviews THE DARK DAD by Mary Kisler Massey Uni Press Read NZ Te Pou Muramura NZ Society of Authors Booksellers Aotearoa nzreviewofbooks.com/the-dark-dad-b…

An essay collection exploring Māori culture, literature, personal paradoxes and the 'constant argument about place' - Kelly Ana Morey reviews THIS COMPULSION IN US by Tina Makereti Te Herenga Waka University Press Read NZ Te Pou Muramura NZ Society of Authors Booksellers Aotearoa nzreviewofbooks.com/this-compulsio…

A 'beautiful, clever and tender book' that maps the 'geographies of memories' - Joanna Cho reviews CLAY EATERS by Gregory Kan Auckland University Press Read NZ Te Pou Muramura NZ Society of Authors Booksellers Aotearoa nzreviewofbooks.com/clay-eaters-by…

'Will this book change the minds of the crazies?' - Philip Mathews reviews A DIFFERENT KIND OF POWER by Jacinda Ardern Penguin Books NZ Jacinda Ardern Read NZ Te Pou Muramura NZ Society of Authors Booksellers Aotearoa nzreviewofbooks.com/a-different-ki…

A novel where 'no-one is watching the kids' - Angelique Kasmara reviews 1985 by Dominic Hoey Penguin Books NZ Read NZ Te Pou Muramura NZ Society of Authors Booksellers Aotearoa nzreviewofbooks.com/1985-2/

An 'ode to poetry', music and desire - Joanna Cho reviews MAD DIVA by Cadence Chung Otago University Press Read NZ Te Pou Muramura NZ Society of Authors Booksellers Aotearoa nzreviewofbooks.com/mad-diva-by-ca…

After a catastrophic tsunami, a small community fights to survive and evolve - Rachel O'Connor reviews SEA CHANGE by Jenny Pattrick Bateman Books Read NZ Te Pou Muramura NZ Society of Authors Booksellers Aotearoa nzreviewofbooks.com/sea-change-by-…

A lyrical novel imagines Marie Curie in Miramar, in an 'age of discovery and marvels' - Paula Morris reviews WONDERLAND by Tracy Farr CubaPress Tracy Farr Read NZ Te Pou Muramura NZ Society of Authors Booksellers Aotearoa nzreviewofbooks.com/wonderland-by-…

A superb 'anthology of changes in taste and style' over a century of applied arts - Hamish Coney reviews TOWARDS MODERNISM: The Walter Cook Collection at Te Papa by Justine Olsen. Full review at: nzreviewofbooks.com/towards-modern… Te Papa Read NZ Te Pou Muramura NZ Society of Authors Booksellers Aotearoa

A writer 'at the top of his game' interrogates a case of sex, drugs and (maybe) murder - Philip Matthews reviews POLKINGHORNE: Inside the Trial of the Century by Steve Braunias Allen & Unwin Aotearoa NZ Read NZ Te Pou Muramura NZ Society of Authors Steve Braunias Philip Matthews nzreviewofbooks.com/polkinghorne-i…