British historian Anne Sebba’s account of the Nazi death camp describes the dissonance of beautiful music in a place of suffering and death.

Winner of a Queensland Literary Award, Steve MinOn’s debut novel charts the lives – and afterlives – of a family of Chinese ...

Laurie Woolever – cook, writer, and fixer for chef Anthony Bourdain – enjoyed the glamour of a celebrity lifestyle. But it ...

Emily Tesh’s magical fantasy The Incandescent is as much about the art of teaching as it is about dealing with demons.

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The French Open may be over for another year, but Roland-Garros will always belong to Rafael Nadal, its all-time champion.

Ariane Beeston’s memoir chronicles her experience of postpartum psychosis, a devastating but little-understood condition. Because I’m Not Myself, You See casts a spotlight on an issue I knew nothing ...

A dementia diagnosis reveals clues to a decades-old mystery in this new novel from the author of The Secrets of Strangers – Charity Norman’s third to be shortlisted for NZ’s Ngaio Marsh Awards. In ...

This latest offering of Australian rural noir contrasts urban and small-town sensibilities from the perspective of a child protection officer. Readers of Crows Nest will not be surprised to learn that ...

Historian Janet McCalman discovers what happened to the freed convicts who settled in Victoria. New Zealanders like to call convicts ‘Australian royalty’, omitting the inconvenient fact that ...

A finalist in the Ngaio Awards for Best First Crime Novel, Paper Cage is the story of a divided community and a string of missing children. There’s not much that happens in Masterton that Lo Henry ...

Szymanski and Wigmore examine cricket’s evolution from an elite English pastime to a global phenomenon. Bat and a ball games are as old as humankind. They are a testament to our creativity. Cricket ...