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Books recently reviewed by Doris on Newstalk ZB with Leighton Smith. Tune in every Friday from 11.40 to here Doris talk about the latest releases.
The Wall by John Lanchester
$32.99 NZD
Category: Recently Reviewed On Newstalk ZB | Reading Level: good
Kavanagh begins his life patrolling the Wall. If he's lucky, if nothing goes wrong, he only has two years of this, 729 more nights. The best thing that can happen is that he survives and gets off the Wall and never has to spend another day of his life anywhere near it. He longs for this to be over; long ...Show more
D-Day: The Soldiers' Story by Giles Milton
$37.99 NZD
Category: Recently Reviewed On Newstalk ZB | Reading Level: very good
'Compellingly authentic, revelatory and beautifully written. A gripping tour de force' Damien Lewis Almost seventy-five years have passed since D-Day, the day of the greatest seaborne invasion in history. The outcome of the Second World War hung in the balance on that chill June morning. If Allied forc ...Show more
Vita and Virginia: A Double Life by Sarah Gristwood
$40.00 NZD
Category: Recently Reviewed On Newstalk ZB
A double biography of Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West, their friendship and love affair. Virginia Woolf is one of the world's most famous writers - a leading light of literary modernism and feminism - and a British icon. During the 1920s she had a passionate affair with a fellow author, Vita Sa ...Show more
The Mystery of Three Quarters: the New Hercule Poirot Mystery by Sophie Hannah
$35.00 NZD
Category: Recently Reviewed On Newstalk ZB | Series: New Hercule Poirot Mystery
The world's most beloved detective, Hercule Poirot - the legendary star of Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express and most recently The Monogram Murders and Closed Casket-returns in a stylish, diabolically clever mystery set in 1930's London. Returning home after lunch one day, Hercule Poirot fi ...Show more
Coming To It: Selected Poems by Sam Hunt
$29.99 NZD
Category: Recently Reviewed On Newstalk ZB
Sam Hunt is New Zealand¿s best-known and, arguably, best-loved poet. Coming to it: Selected poems is the latest collection of Hunt¿s poems to be published. It is intended to replace both Doubtless: New and selected and Knucklebones: Poems 1962¿2012 (both out of print) to ensure that a substantial select ...Show more
The Italian Garden: Restoring a Renaissance Garden in Tuscany by Cecilia Hewlett (Editor); Narelle McAuliffe (Editor)
$55.00 NZD
Category: Recently Reviewed On Newstalk ZB | Series: with Paul Bangay | Reading Level: near fine
The remarkable story of the project undertaken by Paul Bangay and Monash University to transform a neglected car park at the university's Prato campus in Tuscany into a traditional Renassance walled garden, befitting its location. The Italian Garden is part restoration story, part vicarious travel tale ...Show more
The Good Mothers: The Story of Three Woman Who Took on the World's Most Powerful Mafia by Alex Perry
$36.99 NZD
Category: Recently Reviewed On Newstalk ZB
You are born into it or marry in. Loyalty is absolute, bloodshed revered and you kill or go to your grave before betraying The Family. This code of omerta is how the 'Ndrangheta became the world's most powerful mafia. The Good Mothers is the story of the women who broke the silence. We live in their bui ...Show more
All the Beautiful Girls by Elizabeth J. Church
$35.00 NZD
Category: Recently Reviewed On Newstalk ZB
"No one captures the exuberant passions and inner struggles of women like Elizabeth Church."--Martha Hall Kelly, author of Lilac Girls A powerful novel about a gutsy showgirl who tries to conquer her past amongst the glamour of 1960s Las Vegas--and finds unexpected fortune, friendship, and love. ...Show more
Our Souls at Night: Film Tie-in by Kent Haruf
$24.99 NZD
Category: Recently Reviewed On Newstalk ZB | Series: Netflix film
From the Folio Prize-shortlisted author of Plainsong, Eventide and Benediction, a stunning novel about finding happiness.SOON TO BE A MOTION PICTURE"Absolutely beautiful" The Times"Gripping and tender" Publishers WeeklyThis is a love story. A story about growing old with grace.Addie Moore and Louis Wate ...Show more
Now We Are Dead by Stuart MacBride
$35.00 NZD
Category: Recently Reviewed On Newstalk ZB | Series: Roberta Steel
She can't prove he did it. But she might die trying...From the Sunday Times No.1 bestselling author of the Logan McRae series, comes a standalone spinoff featuring DS Roberta Steel.Revenge is a dangerous thing...Detective Chief Inspector Roberta Steel got caught fitting up Jack Wallace - that's why they ...Show more
The Last Mrs Parrish by LIV Constantine
$35.00 NZD
Category: Recently Reviewed On Newstalk ZB
Addictive, dark, thrilling and full of twists! You won't want to miss this mesmerising debut from a fresh new voice in psychological suspense. Perfect for fans of B. A. Paris, Shari Lapena and Liane Moriarty All she wants...is everything you have! How far would you go to make all your dreams come true? ...Show more
Histories by Sam Guglani
$30.00 NZD
Category: Recently Reviewed On Newstalk ZB
'Guglani is the real deal' Michael Faber'Profound . . . Poetic . . . Humane' Gabriel Weston'Shows rare skill . . . Power and fear and morality' Sarah Moss, author of The Tidal Zone'Tender . . . designed to break your heart, mend it, then break it all over again' Rory Gleeson, author of Rockadoon ShoreHi ...Show more