Week beginning 3 October
Book Reviews:
Three Cities: Seeking Hope in the Anthropocene, by Rod Oram (BWB Texts) 9780994135407
The Extraordinary Journey of Vivienne Marshall, by Shannon Kirk (Reputation Books) 9781944387082
The Book that Made Me, ed. by Judith Ridge (Walker Books) 9781922244888
New Zealand Society at War 1914 - 1918, by Steven Loveridge (VUP) 9781776560608
Good Morning, Midnight, by Lily Brooks-Dalton (Weidenfield & Nicolson) 9781474600590
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - Parts One & Two (Special Rehearsal Edition), by J. K. Rowling, Jack Thorne & John Tiffany (Little, Brown) 9780751565355
The Tiny Owl on the Ramshackle Farm, by Lotte Wotherspoon (Clay Press) 9780473353292
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Fairfax regional papers
Saturday, 1 October
Book Reviews:
The Last Photograph, Emma Chapman (Picador) 9781509816545 Reviewed by Nicola McCloy
Ladder to the Moon, by PJ Fry (Longview) 9780473339302 Reviewed by Alister Browne
Best Books I Never Wrote:
Lindsey Dawson for Scarlet and Magenta (Out Loud Press) 9780473341428
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Your Weekend, Saturday, 1 October
Book Reviews:
Sex Object, by Jessica Valenti (Dey Street Books) 9780062565655 Reviewed by Siobhan Harvey
Annual, ed Kate De Goldi and Sarah Paris (Gecko Press) 9781776570775 Reviewed by Eleanor Black
Full Tilt, by Rebekah Tyler (Full Tilt Publishing) 9780473247423 Reviewed by Sarah Catherall
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Saturday, 1 October
Author Profiles:
The Wilson sisters for Mustang Ride, by Kelly Wilson (Random House) 9780143770169 and Ranger – the Kaimanawa Stallion, by Kelly Wilson (Picture Puffin) 9780143770121
Anthony Byrt for This Model World: Travels to the Edge of Contemporary Art (Auckland University Press) 9781869408589
Book Reviews:
The Essex Serpent, by Sarah Perry (Profile Books) 9781781255445
Mount!, by Jilly Cooper (Penguin Random House) 9780593072912
Short takes: popular fiction
Dead to Me, by Lesley Pearse (Penguin Random House) 9780718181215
Everything Love Is, by Claire King (Bloomsbury) 9781408868454
Skylarking, by Kate Mildenhall (Black Inc Books) 9781863958301
Falling: A Love Story, by Jane Green (Macmillan) 9781447288510
Dear Amy, by Helen Callaghan (Penguin Random House) 9780718182663
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Issue 3984
Overview:
Katherine Mansfield-related books, including Mansfield & Me, by Sarah Laing (VUP) 9781776560691 and including Can You Tolerate This?, personal essays by Ashleigh Young (VUP) 9781776560769
Book Reviews:
Sex And Death, ed. by Sarah Hall and Peter Hobbs (Faber) 9780571322435
Hot Milk, by Deborah Levy (Hamish Hamilton) 9780241146552
The Bad-ass Librarians Of Timbuktu, by Joshua Hammer (Allen & Unwin) 9781760294489
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The Spinoff Review of Books, Week beginning 3 October
Extract:
Extract from Te Whiti O Rongomai and the Resistance of Parihaka, by Danny Keenan (Huia) 9781775501954, to mark Monday night's Maori literature awards at Auckland Museum
Essay:
Ethan Sills essay on comics
Book Review:
Steve Braunias reviews The Voyeur's Motel, by Gay Talese (Grove Press) 9781611855326
Book of the Week:
Angus Gillies on his new crime novel Good Cop, Bad Cop (Rogue Monster Press)
Poetry by Kate Camp
Regular feature
Bestsellers charts from Unity Books Auckland and Wellington
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Saturday, 1 October
Book Reviews:
Lara: The Untold Love Story That Inspired Doctor Zhivago, by Anna Pasternak (HarperCollins) 9780008184919
The Girl Who Beat ISIS, by Farida Khalaf and Andrea C Hoffmann (Penguin Random House) 9781910931028
Bloomsbury South: The Arts in Christchurch 1933-1953, by Peter Simpson (AUP) 9781869408480
A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes, by Adam Rutherford (Hachette) 9780297609384
A Toaster on Mars, by Darrell Pitt (Text Publishing) 9781922182869
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Your Weekend, Saturday, 1 October
Book Reviews:
Sex Object, by Jessica Valenti (Dey Street Books) 9780062565655 Reviewed by Siobhan Harvey
Annual, ed Kate De Goldi and Sarah Paris (Gecko Press) 9781776570775 Reviewed by Eleanor Black
Full Tilt, by Rebekah Tyler (Full Tilt Publishing) 9780473247423 Reviewed by Sarah Catherall
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Sunday, 2 October
Selected Poems, by Jenny Bornholdt (VUP) 9781776560660 Reviewed by Paula Green
Black Ice Matter, by Gina Cole (Huia) 9781775502982 Reviewed by Nicholas Reid
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