by NRB | 9 May 2024 | Non-fiction |
Mary Garden’s memoir reveals her physical and mental abuse at the hands of her sister – and an extraordinary case of plagiarism. Mary Garden has written a fascinating and brutally frank memoir of her troubled relationship with her sister and the impact it has had on...
by NRB | 28 Sep 2023 | Fiction |
Set in New York, Anna Kate Blair’s debut novel explores the art of curation, sexuality, modernism, and knowing one’s own mind. This is a novel to savour, its language crystalline, its acute observations tumbling one after the other. In the opening paragraph,...
by NRB | 17 Aug 2023 | Fiction |
In this new novel from the author of The Forrests, a woman who appears to have it all begins to question her life choices. Therese and Claire live in the same four-storey former sewing factory once wholly owned by Therese’s husband’s family – but they have very...
by NRB | 8 Jun 2023 | Fiction |
Sue Orr’s new novel brings a timely personal dimension to debates around abortion. Sue Orr’s Loop Tracks has been a bestseller in New Zealand since its release in 2021. Published by Victoria University Press (now Te Herenga Waka University Press), the novel has flown...
by NRB | 29 Jul 2021 | Crime Scene, Fiction |
The new thriller from the award-winning author of Call Me Evie and In the Clearing has a disturbing premise. New Zealand writer JP Pomare opens his sinister thriller setting a scene as though it were a movie set — which it will be, shortly. The Auckland residence...
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