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Love before and after the fall of the Berlin Wall backdrops powerful novel.

A child goes missing years after her siblings in this rollercoaster thriller.

You could call this a travel book, but it travels through time as well as place.

Jean-Baptiste Del Amo casts a powerful spell in The Son of Man.

Shilo Kino’s uncompromising protagonist is balanced by delightful secondary characters.

Ann Packer checks out the latest reads for children.

What booklovers are buying this week.

Three new books to keep an eye out for.

You might think you're past books for young people. Here's why you're wrong.

From North London to Galveston, Melting Point redefines family history.

NZ writer’s memoir of living with a debilitating disease is ambitious and immersive.

Many of us dream about the freedom of flying. Sequoia Schmidt lives that dream.

Three mothers face a frightening future in The Mires.

Book takes: Historian Mark Derby on the legacy of forgotten hero surgeon Douglas Jolly.

The Matariki effect continues, reflected in book sales.

Colin Elliott's research explores the plague that helped put an end to an empire.

A young translator is caught up in an affair with a married man.

Māori writers are riding a wave of international demand for their stories.

The crucial role of a feud between two officers in Scott's ill-fated Terra Nova expedition

Young minds are being sheltered from "dangerous" fiction, but should they be?

Tracy Chevalier’s returns with twisty novel about Venetian glassblowers.

A woman escapes with her neglected grandkids in a cheering road trip across Australia.

They may fly under the radar, but a growing number of Kiwi authors are in huge demand glob

Some readers might find poems in this collection difficult to decode.

Book takes: New notes on the ancient origins of traditional instruments.

Matariki makes it mark on top 10 books.

History, politics, and crime - three reads for the weekend.

Already a collection of great yarns grabbed the attention of Listener reviewers.

"This is the kind of pain where you later find out that you’re going to die.”

Suspenseful, twisty novel mixes horror with domesticity for dark meditation on motherhood.

Laurence Fearnley is best known for her atmospheric novels rooted in the natural world.

Guyon Espiner on a small book's big questions about Māori, NZ's future and capitalism.

Craig Foster spent years swimming with sea creatures, falling in love with an octopus.

'No Judgement' examines anxiety, gossip and reviews website GoodReads.

First cultural history of depression in NZ finds love among the sadness.

There's a new number one best-seller.

Biographies with a twist make for intriguing reading.

It’s a novel designed to get the reader off balance, even compared to her previous work.

Sidekicks with stories, violent acts in a small town, and a Halloween deadline.

The Hazelbourne Ladies Motorcycle and Flying Club is a chunky chronicle of post-WWI lives.

Nostalgia was once a medical term describing an illness that could, and did, kill people.

Latest historical fiction shares themes of forgotten voices but unbreakable spirits.

Tóibín’s heroine Eilis Lacey returns to the Irish life she abandoned 20 years earlier.

A story of comeuppance for self-serving brothers in shifty world of football scouting.

Local book buyers keen on Matariki books.