A timely reminder to get reading this remarkable story if you haven’t had the pleasure yet.Ĩ The Body Keeps the Score Mind: Brain & Body in the Transformation of Trauma by Bessel Van Der Kolk (Penguin, $30)Ī fresh entry to this list, with an elegant Matisse-emblazoned cover, here’s the publisher’s blurb: “Neither talking nor drug therapies have proven entirely satisfactory.

Wonderful to see last year’s Ockham New Zealand Book Awards fiction winner back. The olde worlde saying “Good things come in small packages” couldn’t not be more fitting for this slim gem.Ħ Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus, (Transworld, $26)Ī chronic bestseller, we liked this pithy respone from Jessica on Goodreads who gave it 4 stars:ħ Kurangaituku by Hereaka Whiti (Huia Publishers, $35)

See you there.Ĥ Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin (Chatto & Windus, $37)Ī fixture on this list, this widely beloved novel is the gift that keeps on giving (except if you’re Sam Brooks, who wasn’t so convinced ).ĥ Small Things Like These by Clare Keegan (Faber & Faber, $25) The moving, surprising, inspiring memoir from rugby legend will be speaking with our own legend, Madeleine Chapman, at the Auckland Writers Festival next month. Not to mention he is an author who previously wrote a “true story” about fucking vampires.”ģ Straight Up by Ruby Tui (Allen & Unwin, $37) It’s not hard to find out these cases didn’t actually happen. Dear Dummies: YOU LITERALLY HAVE A COMPUTER ATTACHED TO YOUR HAND ALMOST ALL THE TIME. I mean, if you ever wanted to crawl around inside this fella’s brain, The Shards is the one for you! After finishing I did a Google to see what was said about this “true story” before it was released and I am amazed at how many people were duped. Rather enjoyed this review snippet from Kelly on Goodreads: “Written as a nonfiction narrative, this one is for the Bret Easton Ellis superfan. The latest from the author of American Psycho. Ģ Shards by Bret Easton Ellis (Allen & Unwin, $37) In Catton’s hands the descent into character is so complete, so startlingly multi-dimensional, that the ride cannot help but be exhilarating and entirely consuming.” Read more here. Haven’t read it yet? Here’s a taster of books editor, Claire Mabey’s, rave review: “Her sentences are the stuff of dreams: of ten-course degustations that give you the satisfaction of home cooking at its finest. The third novel from the youngest ever Booker prize winner’s reign continues. AUCKLANDġ Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton (Victoria University Press, $38) The only published and available best-selling indie book chart in New Zealand is the top 10 sales list recorded every week at Unity Books’ stores in High St, Auckland, and Willis St, Wellington.

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