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Liz Tomforde Hits A Home Run With Caught Up
Caught Up, third book in the Windy City series by Liz Tomforde, is another hard-hitter of a romance that is equal parts cute, heartbreaking, steamy, and wholesome. I’m glad to see a slight step away from Mile High and The Right Move in terms of immediate characters and the sports involved as seeing a baseball…
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My June 2025 Reading Summary
Overall mood: busy – it has been a little hectic this month with PhD work, exams, my reading schedule, and looking after myself in the switch over to winter. Thankfully, I have managed well and made it out the other side healthy, happy, and ready to dig into the nitty gritty stuff for my presentation…
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New Zealand Fiction Excellency in Keri Hulme’s Iconic The Bone People
What a rollercoaster this novel is! Keri Hulme’s exceptional and iconic classic kiwi novel The Bone People, winner of the Booker Prize in 1985, is a masterful literary fiction novel which blends language, narrative structure, and style to deliver a compelling, emotional, and gut-wrenching story you will not forget. In a tower on the New…
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Monty Soutar Returns with Kawai: Tree of Nourishment
Back with another stunning and shocking novel, Kāwai: Tree of Nourishment by Dr. Monty Soutar continues the story of the powerful lineage of his line, providing a captivating tale of a period of Aotearoa New Zealand’s history that is full of action, conflict, and change. If you enjoyed Kāwai: For such a Time as This,…
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More Delicious Mysteries in Gareth and Louise Ward’s The Bookshop Detectives: Tea and Cake and Death
Gareth and Louise Ward are back with another witty, exciting, tense read. The Bookshop Detectives: Tea and Cake and Death is just as enjoyable as their first novel, The Bookshop Detectives: Dead Girl Gone, only this time the novel contains more delectable treats and dangerous poisons than before. When we opened Sherlock Tomes people warned…
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DI Nyree Bradshaw is Back in Catherine Lea’s Better Left Dead
New Zealand crime fiction is really scratching an itch of mine at the moment, and Catherine Lea’s Better Left Dead does a fantastic job at it. With heavy subject matters, complex characters, challenging conflicts and an action-packed plot that will hook you in for the ride, it is such an easy read to get through…
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Michelle Rahurahu’s Tragicomedy Poorhara Will Leave You Stunned
Poorhara by Michelle Rahurahu, winner of the Modern Letters Fiction Prize and the Hubert Church Prize for Fiction in the Mātātuhi Foundation Best First Book Awards at the Ockhams 2025, is a powerhouse of writing ingenuity and prowess. It is gut-wrenching, tear-jerking, and laughter-inducing, all wrapped up in one unforgettable tale. A tragicomedy set in…
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Potiki – Another Stunning Patricia Grace Novel
Cousins was not enough for me (and it will not be enough for you readers who want more beautiful Maori literary fiction), so I have picked up Potiki by New Zealand literary powerhouse Patricia Grace. Not only is she one of New Zealand’s most iconic writers, but her family dramas and literary fiction where family…
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Maori Crime Fiction Returns in Michael Bennett’s Return to Blood
Return to Blood by Michael Bennett proves that Better the Blood was no fluke, and it may have set the Hana Westerman thriller series as a favourite of mine among crime thrillers, not only as a New Zealand read, but on an international scale. There is something so engrossing and sharp in these stories that…
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Maori Historical Fiction in Monty Soutar’s Kāwai : For Such a Time as This
Calling all epic fantasy friends, historical fiction fans, and readers wanting to learn more about Aotearoa and its people. Kāwai: For Such a Time as This is the first fiction book released by Dr. Monty Soutar, revered historian and respected author in Aotearoa New Zealand. His historical non-fiction books showcase the courage, bravery, strength, and…
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