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  • Akin

    By Emma Donoghue
    4 stars

    Noah is a seventy-nine year old retired professor who is about to embark on a trip to the South of France, where he was born. It’s a trip he has been meaning to take for years, but now that he’s a widower and nearing 80, he knows his time is running out. Just before departure he is contacted by Child Services, informing him that his 11 year old great nephew is in danger of being placed in care if he doesn’t have a relative that he can move in with immediately. Noah has never had any contact with Michael but he agrees to a temporary placement. This unlikely duo sets off for Nice, France together as Noah had planned - story unfolds from there.

  • The Last Living Cannibal

    By Airana Ngarewa
    4 stars

    Poignant, funny, hard hitting - “Inspired by a long and complicated history between Taranaki and Waikato”

  • Great Big Beautiful Life

    By Emily Henry
    3 stars

    A light and enjoyable holiday read.

  • The Women

    By Kristen Hannah
    1 stars

    Apologies to Kirsten Hanna fans of whom there are many but I thought this started okish and then turned into crap. I have read another of her books ‘The Nightingale” - which I quite enjoyed but ahhhhh to this one.

  • Shuggie Bain

    By Douglas Stewart
    5 stars

    This is a tough read - at times brutal and at other times tender.

  • Buckeye

    By Patrick Ryan
    4 stars

    This is set in a small American town over many decades from pre WWII to Vietnam. The lives of two families and how they are entwined form the base of the story.

  • Speak to Me of Home

    By Jeanine Cummins
    3 stars

    I found “American Dirt” a captivating read so thought I would try another. This is good but did not hold me fully. It is about 3 generations of women in a family and what shapes their identity.

  • 1985

    By Dominic Hoey
    5 stars

    “1985” is an excellent read and one I could not put down once started. Beautiful writing - simplicity in structure enhances gritty and explicit description of lives in carnage. This novel has lines and poems that I will return to.

  • Birnam Wood

    By Eleanor Catton
    5 stars

    The novel follows members of guerilla gardening collective Birnam Wood as, with the help of a charismatic tech billionaire, they undertake a new project on abandoned farmland. It does not sound like it from this but actually a thriller!

  • Broken Country

    By Clare Leslie Hall
    3 stars

    Complicated relationships - love and loss. Maybe 3+ stars.

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