At first glance, ‘Going AWOL’ is a celebration of the walking, kayaking, diving and other activities available in beautiful natural environments around New...
DebraSeptember 7, 2022
This novel begins with a bright, breezy tone – a district attorney at a loose end on a Sunday turns up uninvited at...
DebraJune 26, 2022
I liked this book from the first sentence. Groundskeeping is an authentic and smart novel in the voice of a man in his...
DebraJune 26, 2022
I circled around this book for several months – checking it out in the bookshop, but not buying it – at 800 pages,...
DebraApril 28, 2022
The characters who travel the Lincoln Highway in this novel spring off the page. The first ones we meet have arrived from a...
DebraApril 3, 2022
Bourne could be any town in the world where an industrial activity discharged dodgy effluent to a river, with the people responsible departing...
DebraFebruary 9, 2022
Sixteen-year-old Percy has an unreliable mother – she's been missing for nine days, and may right now might be flaked out in the...
DebraDecember 26, 2021
I spotted this book while in the line at the local post office which also doubles as a book shop. I was there...
DebraDecember 26, 2021
I gobbled Becky Manawatu’s novel over three days. It is a quintessentially New Zealand novel, which most reminds me of The Bone People,...
DebraOctober 24, 2021
This may be my book of the year. It is beautifully written novel set in Californian redwood forest, a land of fog and...
DebraOctober 24, 2021
