![]() ![]() ![]() Feeling hungry? Charlotte Muru-Lanning spoke to him about it for The Boil Up last week – you can read their conversation here.ĩ Smithy: Endless Winters & the Spring of ’22 by Wayne Smith & Phil Gifford (Upstart Press, $50) Over 70 recipes for easy dinners and shared feasts, from dumplings and noodles to snacks and dessert. Sam Low, winner of MasterChef NZ, has a new modern Chinese cookbook – and we’re instantly drooling. Detective Colborne wants to know the truth, and after ten years, Oliver is finally ready to tell it.”Ĩ Modern Chinese by Sam Low (Allen & Unwin, $50) Rio (Affirm Press, $25)Ī debut novel, whose blurb opens with this intriguing line: “On the day Oliver Marks is released from jail, the man who put him there is waiting at the door. Take the opening section: You settle in, become absorbed in the story and, then, 100 pages or so later - Boom! - the novel lurches into another narrative that upends the truth of everything that came before.”Ħ Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan (Faber & Faber, $25)ħ If We Were Villains by M. ![]() NPR writes, “Trust by Hernan Diaz is one of those novels that’s always pulling a fast one on a reader. The depression-era novel that JUST won the Pulitzer Prize! Trust also won the Kirkus Prize and was longlisted for the Booker Prize this year, so quite the over-achiever. The lush book covers a range of Rewi’s architectural projects, from unique homes to conceptual dreamscapes. However, as we learn more about the narrator, it’s evident this oblique answer is also a defence mechanism, because Laura really doesn’t know where she’s from she’s a fourth-generation New Zealander and ethnically Chinese on both parents’ sides but can’t speak the language and never calls herself Chinese.”Ģ The Creative Act: A Way of Being by Rick Rubin (Canongate, $50)ģ Days at the Morisaki Bookshop by Satoshi Yagisawa (Bonnier, $28)Ī bestselling Japanese novel about a secondhand bookshop in Tokyo, and the family who has owned it for generations.Ĥ Rewi: Āta haere, kia tere by Jade Kake & Jeremy Hansen (Massey University, $75)Ī stunning tribute to the late architect Rewi Thompson (Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Raukawa). “On the surface, it’s an act of defiance – an attempt to shut down the tired line of questioning with which people of colour in white-dominant societies are all too familiar, a desire to be seen as more than race, and to assert one’s place in their home country. Laura’s initial response is simple: ‘Here.’ The winner of the 2022 Michael Gifkins Prize! There’s a wonderful review of the novel on Aotearoa New Zealand Review of Books – here’s an excerpt: “Part One of Emma Ling Sidnam’s debut novel … opens with the query ‘So, where are you from, then?’ This is a thoughtless question from an English tourist at Auckland Art Gallery, where Sidnam’s protagonist and narrator Laura is working. AUCKLANDġ Backwaters by Emma Ling Sidnam (Text Publishing, $38) The only published and available best-selling indie book chart in New Zealand is the top 10 sales list recorded every week at Unity Books’ stores in High St, Auckland, and Willis St, Wellington. ![]()
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