reviews

"It is only now that we can read of Pippa Latour's exceptional dedicated service as part of the Special Operations Executive and Women's Auxiliary Air Force in World War Two. She lived her life with profound resilience and fortitude..." We should know Pippa Latour's...

"It was poignant to read of 'older' love - an aged love with all its imperfections and oddities. It is refreshing to embrace a narrative of real life, conflicts, irritations and quirks that just work in all the messiness of life..." This is Nicky's 15th novel and I...

"Meet Frankie...you just want her to speak out and step from the shadows that her Irish lack-of-luck life deals. From the moment I turned the first page I wanted to cheer Frankie on and sod those adults around her that played her like a pawn in the game of life. It...

"A powerful, confronting narrative that causes your blood to pulse with rage...A strong and timely novel from Charity Norman - non-apologetic." Raw and brutal in delivery from dire times we have recently emerged from - the covid years. You cannot merely generalize...

"An epic literary feast across centuries capturing the essence of the Muranese glass makers. A twist exists throughout the exquisite narrative - a stone that skips from 1486 to modern day. It can be a risky, clunky tool when you use 'time travel' in fiction, but...

"A refreshing, nostalgic whodunit writing style set in Hawke's Bay, New Zealand." Fictional book-store owners, Garth and Eloise Sherlock provide a barrel of laughs as they reference familiar tasks and happenings in book store life until a mysterious package is...

Set on the fictional South Atlantic Island, Tuga de Oro, a vibrant array of characters deliver colourful plots to provide pure escapism amongst the weighty tomes on my to-be-read stacks. Veterinarian researcher and devout introvert Charlotte Walker heads to 'the ends...

"If you could take a snapshot of current real-life New Zealand the The Call captures in in all its shades..." Not since I read Fiona Sussman's debut novel The Last Time We spoke (2017) have I been able to read a book that is so honest and provides all the context of...

"On reading the last page my curiosity piqued with more questions than answers in this deeply moving account of one family's fight to freely live in safety. I say more questions than answers because I sense the author was unable to divulge the true extent of the...

"Amma is like a forced look into a mirror to understand how silence can harm, unspoken words can breed misunderstanding and an inability to reassure the next generation can fester brokenness." Three generations - Josephina, Sithara then Annie. From Singapore to Sri...

"Former Auckland detective Hana Westerman cannot shake her policing instincts when a cold case collides with a new body discovery...it's deeply personal and there are more questions than answers." As Hana Westerman, former employee of the Auckland Criminal...

"Bold siblings set up an intricate spy network to ultimately save their small Jewish outpost - but it sets up the strategic win of The battle Of Beersheba." Historian fans will be aware of the Battle Of Beersheba, but few would have delved into the strategic position...