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Lessons in Chemistry, by former copywriter Bonnie Garmus, is that rare beast a polished, funny, thought-provoking story, wearing its research lightly but confidently, and with sentences so stylishly turned it’s hard to believe it’s a debut.”ħ Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton (Victoria University Press, $38)Ĭatton is coming. “Every now and again, a first novel appears in a flurry of hype and big-name TV deals, and before the end of the first chapter you do a little air-punch because for once it’s all completely justified. Here’s a rather ecstatic moment from a Guardian review of this smash hit: Kindly be informed that you ought to return to the Books Section this coming Sunday for Mother’s Day treat: an excerpt from Espiner’s memoir, which is both a stunning meditation on motherhood, and a timely deep-dive into our medical system and the racism therein.Ħ Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus (Transworld, $26) In terms of depth, this novel is more Jay McInerney than Hanya Yanagihara, but Mellors proves herself a poetic chronicler of inky gloom as well as twinkly surfaces.”ĥ There’s a Cure for This: A Memoir by Emma Espiner (Penguin Press, $35) They wed on a whim to calamitous effect on both sides.

It’s an urban playground that struggling painter Cleo, 24 years old and stylishly British, is on the brink of being exiled from, her student visa due to expire in mere months, when she meets Frank, a fortysomething ad agency owner with a nice line in elevator chitchat. Here’s a micro-review from Hephzibah Anderson: “ New York City at the start of the 21st-century – pre-financial crisis, pre-Trump, pre-Covid – is captured with near-devotional lushness in this nostalgic debut. A sneak peek coming to this very website, soon.Ĥ Cleopatra and Frankenstein by Coco Mellors (Fourth Estate, $25) Yska’s approach is to follow in Mansfield’s footsteps and it makes for a wonderful armchair journey through Europe. Check out our ranking of the short stories and this review of Claire Harman’s inspired biography. Popping off with that psychedelic blue shroom is this epically useful, otherworldly compendium of the weird and wonderful mushies around us.ģ Katherine Mansfield’s Europe: Station to Station by Redmer Yska (Otago Uni Press, $50) What is the allure? Is it the heart-wrench or the heart-warm of the story that makes this tiny novel the gift that continues to give? Surely the blend of both.Ģ Fungi of Aotearoa: A Curious Forager’s Field Guide by Liv Sisson (Penguin, $45) The slim Irish novel that could is back atop the list of lists. AUCKLANDġ Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan (Faber & Faber, $25) 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.

Percy jackson and the olympians hardback