1985

Monday 26 January 2026

$38.00

Author: Dominic Hoey
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Reviewer: Louise Ward
ISBN: 9781776950782

Beautyland

Monday 26 January 2026

$28.00

Author: Marie-Helene Bertino
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Reviewer: Louise Ward
ISBN: 9781529964394

Wonderland

Monday 26 January 2026

$38.00

Author: Tracy Farr
Publisher: The Cuba Press
Reviewer: Louise Ward
ISBN: 9781988595931

Flashlight

Tuesday 27 January 26

$38.00

Author: Susan Choi                                                           Publisher: Penguin Random House
Reviewer: Elisabeth Easther
ISBN: 9781787335134

Mana

Tuesday 27 January 2026

$50.00

Author: Tāme Iti                                                               Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Reviewer: Elisabeth Easther
ISBN: 9781991006578

Careless People: A Story of Where I Used to Work

Tuesday 27 January 2026

$40.00

Author: Sarah Wynn-Williams                                                        Publisher: Macmillan
Reviewer: Elisabeth Easther
ISBN: 9781035065936

The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (And His Mother)

Wednesday 28 January 2026

$65.00

Author: Rabih Alameddine
Publisher: Corsair
Reviewer: Jenna Todd
ISBN: 9781472160522

Service

Wednesday 28 January 2026

$65.00

Author: John Tottenham
Publisher: Profile Books
Reviewer: Jenna Todd 
ISBN: 9781805227021

How to End a Story: Collected Diaries 1978-1998

Wednesday 28 January 2026

$65.00

Author: Helen Garner
Publisher: Text Publishing
Reviewer: Jenna Todd
ISBN: 9781923058101

This Compulsion in Us

Thursday 29 January 2026

$40.00

Author: Tina Makereti
Publisher: Te Herenga Waka University Press
Reviewer: Harry Ricketts
ISBN: 9781776562299

Overseas Experience

Thursday 29 January 2026

$30.00

Author: Nicola Andrew
Publisher: Āporo Press
Reviewer: Harry Ricketts
ISBN: 9780473745677

Clown Town

Thursday 29 January 2026

$65.00

Author: Mick Herron
Publisher: John Murray Press
Reviewer: Harry Ricketts
ISBN: 9781399800457

Ripeness

Friday 30 January 2026

$38.00

Author: Sarah Moss
Publisher: Macmillan
Reviewer: Lisa Adler 
ISBN: 9781529035506

Don’t Trust Fish

Friday 30 January 2026

$24.00

Author: Neil Sharpson
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Reviewer: Lisa Adler 
ISBN: 9781761351082

A Truce that is not Peace

Friday 30 January 2026

$65.00

Author: Miriam Toews
Publisher: HarperCollins
Reviewer: Lisa Adler 
ISBN: 9780008803278

On the Calculation of Volume: I

Monday 2 February 2026

$30.00

Author: Solveg Balle
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Reviewer: Stella Chrysostomou
ISBN: 9780571383375

Slowing the Sun

Monday 2 February 2026

$40.00

Author: Nadine Hura
Publisher: Bridget Williams Books
Reviewer: Stella Chrysostomou
ISBN: 9781991301369

The Rose Field: The Book of Dust Volume Three

Monday 2 February 2026

$38.00

Author: Philip Pullman
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Reviewer: Stella Chrysostomou
ISBN: 9780241458709

Garrison World: Redcoat Soldiers in New Zealand and across the British Empire

Thursday 5 February 2026

$70.00

Author: Charlotte Macdonald
Publisher: Bridget Williams Books
Reviewer: Paul Diamond
ISBN: 9781991033703

Mr Ward’s Map: Victorian Wellington Street by Street

Thursday 5 February 2026

$90.00

Author: Elizabeth Cox
Publisher: Massey University Press
Reviewer: Paul Diamond
ISBN: 9781991309068

The Meeting Place: Māori and Pākehā Encounters, 1642–1840

Thursday 5 February 2026

$40.00

Author: Vincent O’Malley
Publisher: Bridget Williams Books
Reviewer: Paul Diamond
ISBN: 9781991301406

What We Can Know

Monday 9 February 2026

$38.00

Author: Ian McEwan
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Reviewer: Phil Vine 
ISBN: 9781787335745

Super-Frog Saves Tokyo

Monday 9 February 2026

$40.00

Author: Haruki Murakami
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Reviewer: Phil Vine 
ISBN: 9781787304710

Murderland

Monday 9 February 2026

$40.00

Author: Caroline Fraser
Publisher: Hachette
Reviewer: Phil Vine 
ISBN: 9780349127538

The Hallmarked Man

Tuesday 10 February 2026

$40.00

Author: Robert Galbraith
Publisher: Little, Brown
Reviewer: Louise O’Brien 
ISBN: 9781408723791

Familiaris

Tuesday 10 February 2026

$28.00

Author: David Wroblewski
Publisher: Little, Brown
Reviewer: Louise O’Brien 
ISBN: 9780349147093

Groundwork: The Art and Writing of Emily Cumming Harris

Wednesday 11 February 2026

$60.00

Authors: Michele Leggott & Catherine Field-Dodgson
Publisher: Te Papa Press
Reviewer: David Hill 
ISBN: 9781991072047

He Puāwai: A Natural History of New Zealand Flowers

Wednesday 11 February 2026

$28.00

Author: Philip Garnock-Jones
Publisher: Auckland University Press
Reviewer: David Hill 
ISBN: 9781776711680

New Zealand Photography Collected: 175 Years of Photography in Aotearoa

Wednesday 11 February 2026

$90.00

Author: Athol McCredie
Publisher: Te Papa Press
Reviewer: David Hill 
ISBN: 9781991072078

Attention: Writing on Life, Art and the World

Thursday 12 February 2026

$40.00

Author: Anne Enright
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Reviewer: Cynthia Morahan
ISBN: 9781787335783

Hardship and Hope: Stories of resistance in the fight against poverty in Aotearoa

Wednesday 11 February 2026

$20.00

Author: Rebecca Macfie
Publisher: Bridget Williams Books
Reviewer: Cynthia Morahan
ISBN: 9781991033970

The Question of Palestine

Wednesday 11 February 2026

$45.00

Author: Edward W. Said
Publisher: Text Publishing
Reviewer: Cynthia Morahan
ISBN: 9781923058200