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2\u00a0The Vanishing Place\u00a0by Zoe Rankin (Hachette, $37.99)<\/p>\n
3\u00a0Julia Eichardt\u00a0by Lauren Roche (Flying Books Publishing, $36.99)<\/p>\n
4\u00a0The Book of Guilt\u00a0by Catherine Chidgey (Te Herenga Waka University Press, $38)<\/p>\n
5\u00a0Hooked Up\u00a0by Fiona Sussman (David Bateman, $38.99)<\/p>\n
6\u00a0Dead Girl Gone\u00a0(The Bookshop Detectives\u00a01)\u00a0by Gareth and Louise Ward (Penguin Random House, $26)<\/p>\n
7\u00a0Tea and Cake and\u00a0Death (The Bookshop Detectives 2)\u00a0by Gareth and Louise Ward (Penguin Random House, $38)<\/p>\n
8\u00a0Dead Ends\u00a0by\u00a0Laura Borrowdale (Tender\u00a0Press,\u00a0$30)<\/p>\n
Blazingly original short stories by a master of the form. One will appear in ReadingRoom soon; it\u2019s titled \u201cThe Bullpit\u201d, in reference to a hollow in a field where children go to play. Strange how such bullpits are a common feature of New Zealand childhoods. Borrowdale writes, \u201cThe bullpit was dark and shadowy, separated from the golden summer grass that filled the rest of the large field by a dense pine plantation and a fence. It had been dug out for shingle by the previous owners, leaving a deep earthy hole in the ground. That was a long time ago though, and the steep sides of the quarry had slipped down and grown into grassy slopes the children could roll down. It seemed very far away\u2026.\u201d<\/p>\n
9\u00a0Where in All the World\u00a0by\u00a0Vanessa Croft\u00a0(David Bateman, $38.99)<\/p>\n
10\u00a01985\u00a0by\u00a0Dominic Hoey\u00a0(Penguin Random House, $38)<\/p>\n
NONFICTION<\/p>\n
1\u00a0Lessons on Living\u00a0by Nigel Latta (HarperCollins, $39.99)<\/p>\n
Vale, Nigel Latta, born July 3, 1967 in Oamaru, died September 30, 2025 in Auckland.<\/p>\n
2\u00a0Nadia\u2019s Farm Kitchen\u00a0by Nadia Lim (Nude Food, $55)<\/p>\n
3\u00a0Perspective\u00a0by Shaun Jonson (Penguin Random House $40)<\/p>\n
Sports bio of the league leader.\u00a0<\/p>\n
4\u00a0The Hollows Boys\u00a0by Peta Carey (Potton & Burton, $39.99)<\/p>\n
Really exciting account of\u00a0the helicopter deer recovery era in Fiordland, told through the lives of three brothers, Gary, Mark and Kim Hollows. A really exciting extract will appear in ReadingRoom next week.<\/p>\n
Good cover.<\/p>\n
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5\u00a0Ara\u00a0by Hinemoa Elder (Penguin Random House, $30)<\/p>\n
6\u00a0Become Unstoppable\u00a0by Gilbert Enoka (Penguin Random House, $40)<\/p>\n
7\u00a0A Different Kind of Power\u00a0by Jacinda Ardern (Penguin Random House, $59.99)<\/p>\n
Political bio of the Labour leader.<\/p>\n
8\u00a0Saving Elli\u00a0by Doug Gold\u00a0(Allen & Unwin, $37.99)<\/p>\n
9\u00a0Everything\u00a0But\u00a0the Medicine\u00a0by\u00a0Lucy O\u2019Hagan\u00a0(Massey\u00a0University Press, $39.99)<\/p>\n
A free copy of the Wanaka GP\u2019s excellent memoir was up for grabs in last week\u2019s giveaway contest. O\u2019Hagan writes very personally, of herself and not just her patients; as such, readers were asked to share a personal story about a doctor. Many of the entries were\u2026peculiar. Most were lacking in affection. Nicholas wrote about a Polish doctor who got upset: \u201cIt looked like smoke was going to start pouring out his ears and nostrils.\u201d Jeffrey wrote about the doctor in Blackball who reluctantly agreed to look at a hawk with a broken leg, but when he gave it anaesthetic, it died. <\/p>\n
The winning entry came from Annabelle, who wrote, peculiarly, and I think affectionately, \u201cOver a couple of weekends every autumn, he\u2019d perch above the deck of an old Bedford truck that diesel-crawled its way along the leaf-strewn streets of Arrowtown and play the piano, to the surprised stares and cheers of last week\u2019s bad coughs and buggered knees.\u00a0 On the deck there was just enough room for a fellow on banjo, another on fiddle and a piano accordion player at the back.\u00a0 It was local history \u2013 gold mining, settlers, hardship \u2013 dressed up as festival entertainment.\u00a0 His red top hat bowed over ivories that trotted out old-school singalongs like Side by Side and Goodnight, Irene.\u00a0 It was the village doctor having fun.<\/p>\n
\u201cThirty-five years on, the daily piano workout honours Debussy, Schubert, Cole Porter and Dave Brubeck, the old tunes now bottom-drawered for occasional singalong sessions, the daily practice times luxuriously long.\u00a0 He\u2019s become a landscaper, building steps and curvaceous boardwalks and safety barriers on a steep and rocky island garden.\u00a0 He\u2019ll come in for coffee and a scone and often he\u2019ll linger, watching a rugby replay or reading a book on his phone.\u00a0 He\u2019s discovering space and craftsmanship, shedding an intense life that asked much of him for almost fifty years.\u00a0 No more midnight summonses to deliver a baby, no more death certificate signings nor careful pronouncements of terminal illness within the quiet walls of his surgery, while the next and the next wait on hard seats down the passage.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe doctor is at leisure now.\u201d<\/p>\n
Huzzah to Annabelle. She wins a free copy of Everything\u00a0But\u00a0the Medicine\u00a0by\u00a0Lucy O\u2019Hagan.<\/p>\n
10\u00a0Gold Under the\u00a0M\u0101nuka\u00a0by Bill Mouat & Carolyn Mouat\u00a0(David Bateman, $49.99)<\/p>\n
Hm. Interesting blurbology: \u201cTrue\u00a0story of how the Mouat family of Mangaorapa Station transformed a block of seemingly worthless scrubland into one of New Zealand\u2019s most successful, innovative farming operations.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FICTION 1\u00a0The\u00a0Last Living Cannibal\u00a0by Airana\u00a0Ngarewa\u00a0(Hachette, $37.99) Oho! Number 1 with a bullet in its first week in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72106,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[489,156,111,139,69,3632],"class_list":["post-72105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-books","tag-books","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-nz-best-sellers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}