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This week’s bestselling books – April 19
The latest Nielsen BookScan New Zealand bestseller list, with occasional pithy remarks
Book of the Week: Mothering in late-stage capitalism
A novel about a woman unable to live with any degree of comfort or fulfilment
Judy Bailey enters the Blue Zone
How to live to be 100 and still be quite useful
Rhapsody in feijoa
A new book on feijoas inspires recipes for feijoa cakes, feijoa jam, feijoa ice-cream and feijoa-related alcoholic stupor
Dealing with readers who worry about ‘brown supremacism’
An historian responds to howls of outrage that his books are “beating up on the white man”
An Ode to .. Melissa Lee
Bard Billot on the broadcasting dunce
Short story: Something will change, by Alice Tawhai
“How can you love someone who treats you like that?” But she couldn’t explain it…
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PORTRAITS
A family history told in horses
An extraordinary essay about horses by Ōtautahi author Rachael King
A nice, innocent person. Mostly
An author’s history of shocking people with themes of violence and sexuality
An incident in Millers Flat
An author tells the story behind the house she bought after conducting the land transfer in Gore
Self-portrait: Devonport author, 80, alert, in $3m house
A Devonport author addressses the fact he is now officially old
Short story: The long track, by Sara Litchfield
A child goes missing in the bush in Te Anau
Short story: The poet, by Cadence Chung
“He hung his girlfriend around his arm like a slightly-too-heavy coat you have to keep taking off when it gets hot…”
Short story: Almost like a husband, by Carl Nixon
A story set in Hanmer Springs, told by a young woman when she was engaged to be married
Short story: When Nig and Jugsy take in the South, by Vincent O’Sullivan
A comedy of an awful North Island couple patronising the South Island
NEWS
Mum’s secret diary
Charity Norman on how her Mum’s fight against dementia inspired the best crime novel of the year
A reckoning on Rabbit Island
Wellington writer Nick Ascroft celebrates his 50th birthday today with thoughts of existential dread
Crime wave in Ōtautahi
Steve Braunias, Charity Norman and Michael Bennett win Ngaio Marsh crime writing awards
The return of James Belich
A legendary Kiwi historian is shortlisted for a major prize
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT
This week’s bestselling books, April 12
The latest Nielsen BookScan New Zealand bestseller list, with a fantastic recipe for feijoa crumble
A good and gentle man
An elegy by Miro Bilbrough to her father, author Norman Bilbrough (1941-2022)
Eleanor or Emma, the People’s Choice
Birnam Wood, There’s A Cure For This, and Pet – one of them will be named book of the year as voted by ReadingRoom readers
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