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Columnist Joe Bennett on the best work of late novelist Martin Amis.

A rhyming children’s picture book about combatting bullying

Kiran Dass reviews Eleanor Catton's new novel

The Duke of Windsor and Wallis Simpson kicked off the family's publishing mini-boom.

The new book of flash fiction by Frankie McMillan

Mel C talks to Eleanor Black, quick questions with poet laureate Chris Tse.

Plus Owen Marshall answers 5 Quick Questions.

Tragedy and trauma are at the core of Lauren Roche's debut novel.

Sit back to the rise and fall of counterculture, and other glacially cool writers.

A dystopia set in 2041 and an examination into future family ties

Including a witchy rom-com and the latest literary crime thriller from J.P. Pomare.

Dominic Hoey's new novel confronts 21st century Aotearoa and some social truths.

Sit back to David Trubridge, Keri Hulme and three-ingredient recipes.

The story behind Qatar's riches - and the lives of the ordinary people.

A new memoir asks, what does it mean to be a woman in 2022?

What's it like to survive a helicopter crash or an avalanche? A new memoir describes both.

Battles, gods, goddesses, and Bede Scott.

Mohammed Hassan on slam poetry and the most pressing global issues, and more.

Delicious new page-turners, including from the prodigiously talented Laurence Fearnley.

If you are trying to better understand yourself and others, these books are useful.

Edited extract from Touring Edwardian New Zealand, by Paul Moon

Would you read a picture book for grown-ups?

Tumble into Viking raids and the underworld with a winning poetry collection, and more.

Poet Robert Sullivan turns to myth and history in a soaring new collection, and more.

A poet documents her life in a memoir that doesn't shy away from the details, and more.