Activists become embroiled over dead body
Mike Crowl reviews This Is How It Ends by Eva Dolan. Published by Raven Books.
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What's going on in your dog's head?
What's going on in your dog's head?
New research on the bond between dogs and humans shows there is more than tummy love going on. And provides reason to question animal testing, neuroscientist Gregory Berns says.
Powerful collections from NZ poets
Powerful collections from NZ poets
Two brilliant books were launched at the New Zealand Festival recently, writes Hamesh Wyatt.
Original tale of growth reflects author's intellect
Original tale of growth reflects author's intellect
Caroline Hunter reviews Sourdough by Robin Sloan. Publisher: Text Publishing.
Light of Enlightenment allows no shades of meaning
Light of Enlightenment allows no shades of meaning
Peter Stupples reviews Enlightenment Now: a Manifesto for Science, Reason, Humanism and Progress by Steven Pinker. Publisher: Penguin Random House.
Finnish noir focuses on family dysfunction
Finnish noir focuses on family dysfunction
Cushla McKinney reviews They Know Not What They Do, by Jussi Valtonen. Publisher: OneWorld/Allen & Unwin.
Troubled forensic psychiatrist wrestles with child abuse case
Troubled forensic psychiatrist wrestles with child abuse case
Willie Campbell reviews This I Would Kill For by Anne Buist. Published by Text Publishing.
Complex account of contradictory characters
Complex account of contradictory characters
Jessie Neilson reviews Mazarine by Charlotte Grimshaw. Published by Penguin Random House.
Inside scoop on a master manipulator
Inside scoop on a master manipulator
Rob Kidd reviews Off The Record by Craig Sherborne. Published by Text Publishing.
Fridlund’s prose compellingly readable with nuanced observation
Fridlund’s prose compellingly readable with nuanced observation
Rob Kidd reviews Catapult by Emily Fridlund. Published by Hachette.
Unlikely desert duo investigate the possibilities of empathy
Unlikely desert duo investigate the possibilities of empathy
Alex Bligh reviews The Shepherd's Hut by Tim Winton. Published by Penguin Random House.
‘Dinosaurs never cared about God’
‘Dinosaurs never cared about God’
Rob Kidd reviews The Book Of Joan by Lidia Yuknavitch, published by Canongate, and The Rending And The Nest by Kaethe Schwehn, published by Bloomsbury.
Tension builds as dark secrets uncovered
Tension builds as dark secrets uncovered
Mike Crowl reviews Panic Room written Robert Goddard published by Penguin Random House.
Novel reshaped for modern readers
Novel reshaped for modern readers
Geoff Adams reviews 'Windows' written by Lynda La Plante published by Allen & Unwin/Zaffre.
Book's themes still relevant today
Book's themes still relevant today
Willie Campbell reviews 'Pleas Ignore Vera Dietz' written by A.S. King and published by Text Publishing.
Dark, understated and densely vivid
Dark, understated and densely vivid
Jessie Neilson reviews The End of Loneliness by Benedict Wells. Published by Hachette.
'Young adult' story has broad appeal
'Young adult' story has broad appeal
Mention of the "young adult'' genre can be enough to put off droves of readers who have left their teens behind.
Aristocrat risked life for France
Aristocrat risked life for France
Ted Fox reviews The Saboteur by Paul Kix. Published by HarperCollins.
Inclusive look at NZ literary history
Inclusive look at NZ literary history
Lawrence Jones reviews Telling the Real Story: Genre and New Zealand Literature by Erin Mercer. Publisher: Victoria University Press.
WIN A COPY: Unsettling portrayal of nanny
Unsettling portrayal of a nanny who loses her mind
Rob Kidd reviews Lullaby by Leila Slimani. Published by Faber & Faber/Allen & Unwin.