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  • Lessons on living

    By Nigel Latta
    5 stars

    Nigel shares his 3 principles on living in a witty and upfront way. He quotes his personal experiences to show how he arrived at his 3 lessons.

  • Pages & Co - Tilly and the Bookwanderers

    By Anna James
    4 stars

    Tilly finds out that she is a bookwanderer (same as her Mum and grandparents) and can morph into stories that she reads.

  • Carved in Blood

    By Michael Bennet
    4 stars

    A crime takes place and DI Hamilton seems to be in the wrong place at the wrong time when he is shot. Hana insists on returning to the police force to figure out who was responsible.

  • A beautiful family

    By Jennifer Trevelyan
    5 stars

    The family have gone on summer holiday to the Kapiti Coast. The 10 year old narrator meets with a boy, Kahu, who tells her about a missing child and they decide to investigate. Meanwhile there are underlying issues with the rest of the family.

  • Return to Blood

    By Michael Bennett
    4 stars

    After Hana Westerman resigned from the police force she headed to her hometown. But now another body has been found in the dunes, 20 years after another murder. Even though she cannot officially be involved in this case she seeks to find answers to her questions.

  • The Last Secret agent

    By Pippa Latour with Jude Dobson
    5 stars

    What a remarkable story. Pippa was trained as a covert special opeartions agent and parachuted into occupied France. She gathered intel and sent it back in code to England. It was a very risky job that kept her constantly on the move. So pleased to have read this.

  • The Terrible Trio - The (not so) superheroes

    By Swapna Haddow
    4 stars

    After a very long wait in the queue, zebra, penguin and lemur get some very average superpowers awarded to them. However, they prove to be useful when apprehending the evil crocodile.

  • Childish

    By Morris Gleitzman
    4 stars

    Arkie and Dot try and solve a big problem in their neighbourhood. This is a delightful story.

  • There's a ghost in this house

    By Oliver Jeffers
    4 stars

    I love Oliver Jeffers' books and was surprised that I had missed this one - until today. The girl in the story invites you in to look for ghosts. She can't see them but you can.

  • From the Big Chair

    By various NZ authors
    2 stars

    A collection of short stories for children.

  • Better the blood

    By Michael Bennett
    4 stars

    Hana, a Maori detective in Auckland city leads an investigation into the murders which are related to past wrongs.

  • The Wedding People

    By Alison Espach
    4 stars

    Phoebe heads to a grand hotel in Rhode Island to try and work out her life. She is the only one at the hotel who is not involved with the 6 day wedding taking place. However, she meets the bride Lila who doesn't want her to mess up the elaborate celebrations and becomes swept along with various family members.

  • Twigs & Stones

    By Joy Cowley
    5 stars

    It's great to see these two characters in a picture book and keeping with their theme of friendship.

  • Would you rather...

    By John Burningham
    5 stars

    What an ideal book this would be to start a writing session. Would you rather your house be surrounded by water, snow or jungle? Many unlikely choices can be made with this book.

  • See how they fall

    By Rachel Paris
    5 stars

    A brilliant crime story about the rich and famous and the lengths they will go to protecting their wealth and family name.

  • Rama & Sita

    By Swapna Haddow
    4 stars

    A description of these two deity's and their connection with Diwali

  • Sins of the father - the long shadow of the Gloriavale religious community

    By Fleur Beale
    4 stars

    This book focusses on Phil Cooper (son of Neville Cooper) who left the Springbank community with his children but his wife was reluctant to join him in the outside world.

  • They called us enemy

    By George Takei
    5 stars

    A terrific first hand account of George having to go into internment with his family when the Japanese were rounded up in 1942.

  • Poor people with money

    By Dominic Hoey
    4 stars

    Dominic definitely has an insight into poverty and the desperation that comes from it. His character, Monday, is tough but her plans to get rich go awry.

  • The Secret Garden

    By Mariah Marsden
    4 stars

    This classic presented in graphic novel form - enjoyable.

  • Everything is tuberculosis

    By John Green
    4 stars

    John shows us how tuberculosis has shaped the world after meeting Henry in Sierra Leone with TB drug resistance.

  • Ash

    By Louise Wallace
    4 stars

    A working vet Mum trying to juggle life.

  • Bird Child & other stories

    By Patricia Grace
    4 stars

    A combination of mythology and contemporary stories of Maori life.

  • The one hundred year old man who climbed out the window and disappeared

    By Jonas Jonasson
    4 stars

    Quite an amusing story of Allan's adventures once he has escaped his 100th birthday celebration at his rest home. He also seems to have had connections with many important moments in history.

  • Hungry to be happy - how I lost and found my mind

    By Harry Averill
    4 stars

    Harry describes how he become anorexic and the path to becoming well again.

  • No, I don't get danger money - confessions of an accidental war correspondent

    By Lisette Reymer
    3 stars

    Recounts from the frontline in Ukraine, the Israel-Gaza conflict, the Turkish earthquake, the Queen's funeral and the King's Coronation. Lisette has lived through a lot but with good people alongside her.

  • The Hitchhikers

    By Chevy Stevens
    5 stars

    An action thriller. Tom and Alice pick up two hitchhikers on their Canadian trip. The trip takes a sinister turn when they realise the pair are wanted for murder. The story kept me engaged - not knowing what the next twist will be.

  • Kill your husbands

    By Jack Heath
    4 stars

    Three couples head away to a holiday house for the weekend. Only some return. A twisty whodunnit.

  • The bookseller at the end of the world

    By Ruth Shaw
    5 stars

    I loved this book. As a librarian who is also surrounded by books, her bookshop stories resonated with me. I agree with Ruth - there is a book for everyone.

  • Exit Strategy

    By Lee Child and Andrew Child
    3 stars

    Jack Reacher gets involved with an ex-vet trying to stop a war for profit.

  • It's a bit more complicated than that

    By Hannah Marshall
    5 stars

    Great story telling. Read this book in one sitting which is unusual for me. Loved the characters in the story. Can a broken relationship ever be fixed? Great question.

  • The Iron Man

    By Ted Hughes
    4 stars

    A full children's version of The Iron Man story including the Iron Man saving the world from the space-bat-angel-dragon.

  • Slags

    By Emma Jane Unsworth
    3 stars

    Sarah takes her younger sister Juliette on a roady through Scotland to reconnect. What have their lives become since growing up together in Manchester.

  • The coming of the Iron Man

    By Ted Hughes
    5 stars

    Terrific new version of The Iron Man. A story of an unlikely friendship - abridged. Absolutely love the illustrations by Mini Grey

  • Delirious

    By Damien Wilkins
    3 stars

    An emotional story of losing a child, family connections and ageing.

  • Refugee

    By Alan Gratz
    4 stars

    Three children from different countries (Germany, Cuba and Syria) and different times escape their homelands looking for a better life. Great illustrations in this graphic novel.

  • I thought we'd be famous

    By Dominic Hoey
    3 stars

    A gritty collection of poems

  • There's a cure for this

    By Dr Emma Espiner
    4 stars

    I thought this was a powerful book not only dealing with the medical system and her part in it, but also racism and poverty in Aotearoa.

  • The Scholar

    By Dervla McTiernan
    4 stars

    Excellent Irish detective mystery. The lead detective's partner becomes linked to the investigation when she finds the victim and works in the same laboratory.

  • The Waters

    By Carl Nixon
    4 stars

    Loved the Canterbury setting of this book. Three siblings blighted by their difficult childhood. The book goes back and forth over 40 years of their lives.

  • Wolf Hour

    By Jo Nesbo
    3 stars

    Took me a bit to get in to this book with the writing style but it grew on me. A tale of revenge.

  • Giving birth to my father

    By Tusaiata Avia
    4 stars

    I love to hear a Samoan women's perspective. This time it's about death. As a palagi woman married to a Samoan I know about the events but it's great to hear about the thinking behind.

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