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“An attack against a man of God on the steps of a cathedral on an ungodly winter’s night”, a cold case for the wonderful Detective Sam Shephard – Prey by Vanda Symon, my review: tinyurl.com/vbbfufvz #AotearoaReads #ReadNZ #YeahNoir Karen Sullivan 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇧

Short stories exploring the origins and boundaries of ‘a person’ - surprising, entertaining, disturbing. Pretty Ugly by Kirsty Gunn. My review: tinyurl.com/2kmuyh6y #AotearoaReads #ReadNZ Otago University Press

You can actually take a day trip to Ngamba Island Chimpanzee Sanctuary, where you can view, feed & learn about chimpanzees up close This sanctuary combines conservation, education & leisure, with a scenic beach for relaxation #ExploreUganda

“Exhilaration, anxiety, rapture, depression, tenderness, anger, hope, despair.” The breathtaking endless spiralling journey that is Orbital by Samantha Harvey Author Samantha [email protected]. What a reading experience! #Orbital #ThePowerOfReading

We cannot leave this to chance. Before the holidays hit, we encourage everyone to take a stance & make their submission against this Government’s backwards, moumou moni, moumou tāima (waste of money, waste of time) #TreatyPrinciplesBill. #nzpol Link below

So universities will have to allow the views the government wants. But will be banned from holding views and positions the government don’t want them to? What kinda contradictory heavy handed government control policy is this?

“The fables come always to the same end; this beautiful bird that touched all who met with them or heard their call from their forest places, is gone.” The Huia & Our Tears by Ray Ching. My review: tinyurl.com/ydh3rvac #AotearoaReads #ReadNZ

"Rejoice, small ant, she thought, in your one life, though too soon dimmed it shall be" - great start to 2025 reading: The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff, Lauren Groff. #ThePowerOfReading

"Apparently it was permissable to recall and return all that she had sought to cherish on this earth" - second inspiring read of 2025: Concerning the Future of Souls by Joy Williams #ThePowerOfReading

“Investigating a murder that involves the Church never ends well in Florence”, Aldo and Strocchi have more murders to solve – A Divine Fury by D. V. Bishop - my review of the latest Cesare Aldo mystery: tinyurl.com/5n8v63zf #YeahNoir #CesareAldo dvbishop.com

A riveting depiction of the fracturing of a stable reality – personal, institutional, and societal: The Royal Free by Carl Shuker 🌻 My review: tinyurl.com/mrymkauk #YeahNoir #ReadNZ Te Herenga Waka University Press

Sometimes it is leaving your comfort and braving it with complete strangers that can trigger healing – At the Grand Glacier Hotel by Laurence Fearnley - a wonderful book. My review: tinyurl.com/3f25tbpx #AotearoaReads #ReadNZ Penguin Books NZ

Nine tails. Nine tales. Nine mortal lives - Fox Spirit on a Distant Cloud by Lee Murray, wonderfully conceived and executed. My review: tinyurl.com/yenvjwp6 #YeahNoir #AotearoaReads The Cuba Press

A stunnng evokation of intergenerational trauma, breathtaking - We Do Not Part by @HanKangOfficial #ThePowerOfReading

Northbound by Naomi Arnold - a love song to Aotearoa, to its beauty, its dangers, and its people. My review: tinyurl.com/272c4r2j #TeAraroa #AotearoaReads #ReadNZ HarperCollins Aotearoa NZ

An exquisite depiction of colonial attitudes - Taiwan Travelogue by Yáng Shuāng-zǐ, translated by Lin King #ThePowerOfReading

An excellent continuation of the Hana Westerman series, full of warmth and threat, Carved in Blood by Michael Bennett, novelist & filmmaker My review: tinyurl.com/yc64akr6 #YeahNoir #AotearoaReads #ReadNZ Simon & Schuster

An alternate history, a bildungsroman, a mystery to solve, a #YeahNoir thriller, a cautionary tale, a vivid description of the self-serving cruelty of those in power - The Book of Guilt by Catherine Chidgey My Review: tinyurl.com/evtmvt6e #ReadNZ #AotearoaReads Te Herenga Waka University Press

A magnificant piece of creative non-fiction by Sophy Roberts. Colonial brutality, and the heartbreaking stories of the four Asian Elephants shipped from India and forced to walk across the harsh landscapes of Tanzania, part of Leopold’s rapacious Congo plans #ThePowerOfReading

A gripping suspenseful thriller which engages the reader with the inner lives and motivations of the protagonists: The Good Father by Liam McIlvanney My Review: tinyurl.com/2chy37cn #YeahNoir #ReadNZ Zaffre Books