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A Good Mail
by Peter Whiteford (Ed.)
Letters of John Mulgan: The enigmatic figure of John Mulgan remains a striking presence in New Zealand... 
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Chris Else is a writer of fiction. His novels are known for the contemporary insight they give into the...
Read On ... from the latest bestsellers
Read a current bestseller, loved it and want more of the same? Try here for some ideas. Booksellers NZ website covers the official weekly list of bestselling books in New Zealand, as measured by Nielsen BookScan. Each week, with the help of our friends in the realms of bookselling, libraries and teaching, we'll offer some recommendations for reading on. All of these books are available from bookstores all over New Zealand.
The Night Book, by Charlotte Grimshaw
The Millennium trilogy, by Stieg Larsson
Flick the Little Fire Engine, by Jamie Lawrence
Inheritance, by Jenny Pattrick
The Night Book, by Charlotte Grimshaw
Recommended by Maggie Rainey-Smith, novelist and Chair of the Wellington branch of the New Zealand Society of Authors
Are you one of the many who have read and loved The Night Book by Charlotte Grimshaw? See below for further recommendations.
The link in these recommended novels is love, both passionate and destructive, fuelled by the overwhelming desire for a child, for a family and the lengths people will go to protect their families and the fallout.
- Singularity, by Charlotte Grimshaw (Random House NZ)
- Opportunity, by Charlotte Grimshaw (Random House NZ)
- A Gate at the Stairs, by Lorrie Moore (Alfred A. Knopf, US)
- The Slap, by Christos Tsiolkas (Allen & Unwin, AU)
- Lovesong, by Alex Miller (Allen & Unwin, AU)
The Millennium trilogy, by Stieg Larsson
Recommended by Mia Yardley, Project Manager, Pindar NZ
Have you read the Millennium trilogy by Stieg Larsson? Wondering whether there is a whole world of Scandinavian crime fiction that you should explore?
One of the best ways to discover new Scandinavian crime (or rather, police procedural) fiction on your library database is to search by translator.
In order of preference and by the first book in each series:
- Jar City / Arnaldur Indriđason (Iceland; trans. Bernard Scudder; also published as Tainted Blood)
- Savage Altar / Åsa Larsson (Sweden/Finland; trans. Marlaine Delargy)
- Don't Look Back : an Inspector Sejer mystery / Karin Fossum (Norway; trans. Felicity David)
- Faceless Killers : a mystery / Henning Mankell (Sweden; trans. Steven T. Murray)
- Mind's Eye : an Inspector Van Veeteren mystery / Håkan Nesser (Sweden; trans. Laurie Thompson)
Flick the Little Fire Engine, by Jamie Lawrence
Recommended by the New Zealand Book Council staff
Want to know what to help your little boy read once you have finished the bestselling Flick the Little Fire Engine? The Book Council staff have put together a handy list of books that will interest any machine-mad kid:
- Champ the Chopper, by Rebekah Palmer, illustrated by Daniel Falconer and Chris Guise (Weta)
- Roadworks, by Sally Sutton, illustrated by Brian Lovelock (Walker Books)
- The Little Yellow Digger, by Betty and Alan Gilderdale (Scholastic NZ)
- The Great Big Little Red Train, by Benedict Blathwayt (Random House UK)
Inheritance, by Jenny Pattrick
Recommended by Harriet Allan, Fiction publisher, Random House NZ
Have you enjoyed reading Jenny Pattrick's Inheritance? Here are a few more ways into New Zealand fiction with similar themes:
Also by Jenny Pattrick:
- In Touch with Grace (Random House NZ) and Landings (Random House NZ)
For those who enjoyed the Polynesian element:
- They who do not grieve, by Sia Figiel (Kaya/Muae Press)
- Breadfruit (Back Bay Books, AU) or Frangipani (Back Bay Books, AU) by Celestine Hitiura Vaiti
- The Mango's Kiss by Albert Wendt (Vintage Imprint, Random House NZ)
With a similar theme of a search for parentage, and in two different countries
- Limestone by Fiona Farrell (Random House NZ)
