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Review: A mother’s courageous response to the loss of her son publicly murdered by ISIS

As bereaved mother Diane Foley asks, what are you if your child dies?

Review: Feijoa frenzy – the sweet and the sour of our most divisive fruit

An enthusiastic ramble on the history, science and devotees of the polarising fruit.

Book takes: Dehydration, fatigue, hypothermia, sharks and crocs couldn’t beat marathon ocean paddler

Aussie athlete Bonnie Hancock on what it took to "touch the stars".

Top 10 best-selling New Zealand books: February 24

Veteran NZ author holds the top spot, but there's a hot new cookbook in the top 10.

Review: Smart, funny, playful novel tackling the 21st century’s most pervasive fear is a delight to read

All the Words We Know is glittering, inventive, poignant.

Review: Why have so many modern mass global uprisings failed?

If We Burn is a peerless and lucid account of a remarkable period in history.

Review: The extraordinary romance that blossomed amid Auschwitz’s horrific ‘conveyor belt’ of death

US journalist writes about 'death camp' romantic relationship, never before documented.

Rachael King’s first children’s book in more than 10 years defies categorisation

Author creates a touch of magic with story spun around shape-shifting kelpies.

Book takes: Author Chanel Contos on the prevalence of rape culture and the solution to it

Consent Laid Bare has been described as a game-changing book on sex and consent.

Top 10 best-selling New Zealand books: February 10

Veteran NZ writer takes top spot with eagerly-awaited new release.

Review: First-time novelist Freddie Gillies’ Because All Fades is a trip worth taking

Readers journey with four young expats on satisfying, if tense, Italian road trip.

Review: Sparks fires up compelling stories of those defying Chinese Communist party line

China's underground historians battle for the future by exposing the past.

Review: Kiwi expat’s debut novel inspired by Aussie literary icon

Amy Brown delivers a multilayered, literary-minded debut novel.

Review: Art imitates life for roguish Irish writer John Banville

John Banville, as inventive as ever at the age of 78, is playing with us mere mortals.

Book takes: The ultrawild and whacky inventions which might just save the world

Author Steve Mushin on why he's ultra excited about the potential for radical innovation.

Top 10 best-selling New Zealand books: February 3

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