From the Centre: A Writer's Life
By: Patricia Grace
4.41
Format: 304 pages, ebook
With photographs and quotes from her many, hugely loved books, Patricia Grace begins with her grand…
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1. The Cellist of Sarajevo
By: Steven Galloway
4.00
Format: 235 pages, Hardcover
This brilliant novel with universal resonance, set during the 1990s Siege of Sarajevo, tells the st… read more
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"A bullet leaves evidence that a mortar doesn't."-Steven Galloway, The Cellist of Sarajevo
"... life is a series of tiny, unavoidable decisions."-Steven Galloway, The Cellist of Sarajevo
"The choices she's made have left her without choice."-Steven Galloway, The Cellist of Sarajevo
"You don't choose what to believe. Belief chooses you."-Steven Galloway, The Cellist of Sarajevo
2. The Universe Versus Alex Woods
By: Gavin Extence
5.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A rare meteorite struck Alex Woods when he was ten years old, leaving scars and marking him for an … read more
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3. The Prison Book Club
By: Ann Walmsley
4.00
Format: None pages,
An attack in London left Ann Walmsley unable to walk alone down the street, and shook her belief in… read more
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- biography
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- memoir
4. The Bone People
By: Keri Hulme
3.51
Format: None pages,
In a tower on the New Zealand sea lives Kerewin Holmes, part Maori, part European, an artist estran… read more
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5. Requiem
By: Frances Itani
4.42
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Bin Okuma, a celebrated visual artist, has recently and quite suddenly lost his wife, Lena. He and … read more
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6. Lola in the Mirror
By: Trent Dalton
4.41
Format: 448 pages, Kindle Edition
Bighearted, gritty, magical and moving, Lola in the Mirror is the irresistible new novel from inter… read more
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7. Pet
By: Catherine Chidgey
4.06
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Like every other girl in her class, twelve-year-old Justine is drawn to her glamorous, charismatic … read more
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8. Birnam Wood
By: Eleanor Catton
3.82
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Birnam Wood is on the move . . . Five years ago, Mira Bunting founded a guerrilla gardening gro… read more
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"...wondering, not for the first time, when exactly she had become so technologically dependent that her first instinct in every unpredicted circumstance was to outsource her imagination to her phone."-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood
"Not at all,’ he said. ‘I was just going to remark that being a cliche can be very useful. You ought to consider it some time.’ ’Oh yeah?’ ’Yeah,’ he said. ‘It means people underestimate you. They thi…"-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood
"As his rhetoric and reading life matured, he grew intensely scornful of what passed at his high school for 'education' - the mania for testing; the intolerance of real dissent; and the conformist cel…"-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood
"... his future, had either been sold or laid to waste by his parents' generation, trapping him in a perpetual adolescence that was further heightened by the infantilising unreality of the Internet as…"-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood
9. Brotherless Night
By: V.V. Ganeshananthan
4.46
Format: 348 pages, Hardcover
In this searing novel, a courageous young woman tries to protect her dream of becoming a doctor as … read more
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10. Build Your House Around My Body
By: Violet Kupersmith
3.82
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A century of Vietnam's history and folklore comes to life in this "brilliant, sweeping epic that sw… read more
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"He did not have to have him. He just had to be near him. It was enough."-Violet Kupersmith, Build Your House Around My Body
"I love her but I don't have to have her. I just have to be near her. And that's enough."-Violet Kupersmith, Build Your House Around My Body
"[She knew that] what she felt for him was not love, it was closer to it than she deserved."-Violet Kupersmith, Build Your House Around My Body
"Winnie felt better in the sunlight. She let her hand rest on the tree's ropy trunk. The bark was smooth beneath her fingers. These were the breed of strangling ficus that spent two hundred years brai…"-Violet Kupersmith, Build Your House Around My Body
11. The Bookseller at the End of the World
By: Ruth Shaw
4.25
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A rich, immersive, funny and heartbreaking memoir of the charming bookseller who runs two tiny book… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"My mother, more than anyone, knew why I lived such a high-risk life. She gave me the freedom to run."-Ruth Shaw, The Bookseller at the End of the World
12. After Story
By: Larissa Behrendt
4.07
Format: 360 pages, Paperback
When Indigenous lawyer Jasmine decides to take her mother Della on a tour of England's most revered… read more
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13. Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
By: Melissa Febos
4.24
Format: 171 pages, Paperback
Memoir meets craft masterclass in this “daring, honest, psychologically insightful” exploration of … read more
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- memoir
"Writing is a form of freedom more accessible than many"-Melissa Febos, Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
"...The more we believe we ought to be something that we are not, the more money we will spend in that mission."-Melissa Febos, Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
"Every single thing I have created worth a damn has been a practice of love, healing, and redemption. I know this process to be divine."-Melissa Febos, Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
"I have found that a fulfilling writing life is one in which the creative process merges with the other necessary processes of good living, which only the individual can define."-Melissa Febos, Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
14. My Favourite Mistake (Walsh Family, #7)
By: Marian Keyes
4.02
Format: 599 pages, Kindle Edition
The hilarious, heartwarming new novel from #1 internationally bestselling author Marian Keyes. A… read more
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15. There’s a Cure for This: A Memoir
By: Emma Espiner
4.31
Format: 202 pages, Kindle Edition
“I don’t know why medicine felt like coming home but, for some reason, it fits. I keep thinking abo… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
16. How to Loiter in a Turf War
By: Coco Solid
4.23
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
A genre-bending work of autobiographical fiction from one of Aotearoa’s fiercest and most versatile… read more
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"She gives him a hurled brick wrapped up in a smile"-Coco Solid, How to Loiter in a Turf War
"Māoridom in Aotearoa dictates that we generate prestige from manaakitanga. It is the connection and hospitality we express for those in our care but also to show all that they are our equal, they too…"-Coco Solid, How to Loiter in a Turf War
17. Lioness
By: Emily Perkins
3.43
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
You know how we say we devoured a story, and also that we were consumed by it? Eating and being eat… read more
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18. Everything Is Beautiful and Everything Hurts
By: Josie Shapiro
4.21
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
The stunning debut novel by the winner of the Allen & Unwin Commercial Fiction Prize. If you loved … read more
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19. Greta & Valdin
By: Rebecca K. Reilly
4.05
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An irresistible and bighearted international bestseller that follows a brother and sister as they n… read more
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"I wonder what plant I would be, if I were a plant. Maybe something with big leaves that droop sulkily if not provided with the exact right amount of water and light."-Rebecca K. Reilly, Greta & Valdin
20. The Axeman's Carnival
By: Catherine Chidgey
4.37
Format: 350 pages, Paperback
Everywhere, the birds: sparrows and skylarks and thrushes, starlings and bellbirds, fantails and pi… read more
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21. Tell Me Everything (Amgash, #5)
By: Elizabeth Strout
4.46
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From Pulitzer Prize–winning author Elizabeth Strout comes a hopeful, healing novel about new friend… read more
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"...Bob caught a glimpse of himself in the store window that was right there. He was startled. Who was that tall older man? Was that him? A sense of bewilderment came to him. He turned away, then turn…"-Elizabeth Strout, Tell Me Everything (Amgash, #5)
22. Grand: Becoming My Mother's Daughter
By: Noelle McCarthy
4.13
Format: 269 pages, Paperback
"I’ll be grand, girl, I’ve great faith." – Mammy, just before she died Funny, charismatic and ge… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
23. Eddy, Eddy
By: Kate De Goldi
3.96
Format: None pages, Paperback
Eddy, Eddy is a coming of age story, a love story, an earthquake story and a story of finding your … read more
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24. The Mirror Book
By: Charlotte Grimshaw
3.91
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Brave, explosive, and thought-provoking, this is a powerful memoir from a critically acclaimed writ… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
25. The Wish Child
By: Catherine Chidgey
3.86
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Germany, 1939. Two children watch as their parents become immersed in the puzzling mechanisms of po… read more
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26. Know Your Place
By: Golriz Ghahraman
4.30
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
The story of a child refugee who faced her fears, found her home and accidentally made history W… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"can you think of anyone whose work or life you really covet, who you think is really amazing, dead or alive, who took the straight path they were meant to take?"-Golriz Ghahraman, Know Your Place
"We talked about holding the biggest corporate polluters to account and what that might look like in law. Would personhood of nature be enshrined in the same way that corporate personhood is?"-Golriz Ghahraman, Know Your Place
"I looked one of the legends on the bench in the eye and, with all the appropriate airs and graces, told him, I could answer his question but that its basis was a misrepresentation of my argument."-Golriz Ghahraman, Know Your Place
27. Ruin
By: Emma Hislop
3.80
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Women and girls walk a perilously thin line between ruin and redemption in these stories as they tr… read more
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28. So Far, For Now
By: Fiona Kidman
3.95
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
Evocative, wry and thought-provoking, this is a rewarding journey with one of our finest writers. … read more
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- memoir
29. Times Like These
By: Michelle Langstone
4.49
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
A quietly astonishing collection of personal essays from one of New Zealand's most exciting new voi… read more
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- memoir
"In my mother I recognise the trap that has been set for all of us: the narrative of love that has no happy ending. Our whole lives we are raised to look for love, to yearn for it, to hope for the day…"-Michelle Langstone, Times Like These
30. From the Centre: A Writer's Life
By: Patricia Grace
4.41
Format: 304 pages, ebook
With photographs and quotes from her many, hugely loved books, Patricia Grace begins with her grand… read more
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31. Three Wild Dogs (and the truth): A Memoir
By: Markus Zusak
4.28
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
In this poignant, funny, and disarmingly honest memoir, one of the world’s most beloved storyteller… read more
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