Book Reviews

Mary Wadsworth of Dorothy Butler Children's Bookshop Auckland reviews Pony by R J Palacio, published by Penguin Random House. Audio

Melanie O'Loughlin from Lamplight Books in Auckland reviews A Luminous Republic by Andrés Barba, published by Granta. Audio

Catriona Ferguson reviews Bodies of Light by Jennifer Down published by Text Publishing. Audio

Hannah August reviews The Magician by Colm Toibin, published by Macmillan. Audio

Claire Mabey reviews Hine and the Tohunga Portal, Ten Acceptable Acts of Arson and Small Bodies of Water. Audio

Ralph McAllister reviews The Dark Remains by William McIlvanney and Ian Rankin, published by Canongate Trade. Audio

Kiran Dass reviews Family Lexicon by Natalia Ginzburg, published by Daunt Books. Audio

Phil Vine reviews Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney, published by Allen and Unwin. Audio

Jessie Bray Sharpin reviews The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki, published by Text Publishing. Audio

Briar Lawry from Unity Books Auckland reviews The Shut Ins by Katherine Brabon, published by Allan and Unwin. Audio

Chris Tse reviews AUP New Poets 8 by Lily Holloway, Tru Paraha and Modi Deng, published by Auckland University Press. Audio

Kim Pittar from Muir's Independent Bookshop Gisborne reviews Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr, published by Harper Collins. Audio

David Hill reviews Conversatio: In the company of bees by Anne Noble with Zara Stanhope and Anna Brown, published by Massey University Press. Audio

Quentin Johnson reviews This Much is True by Miriam Margolyes, published by Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand. Audio

Librarian at Diocesan School for Girls, Catherine Ross has another amazing list of books for young people to read this week. Her theme this week is 'Remixes'. Audio

Harry Ricketts reviews Beeswing: Fairport, Folk Rock and Finding My Voice, 1967-75 by Richard Thompson, published by Allen and Unwin. Audio

Paul Diamond reviews The Survival of Māori  as a People by Whatarangi Winiata, published by Huia Publishers. Audio

Harry Broad reviews Steve Hansen: The Legacy by Gregor Paul, published by HarperCollins NZ. Audio

Briar Lawry of Unity Books Auckland reviews Assembly by Natasha Brown, published by Hamish Hamilton. Audio