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Top 10 best-selling New Zealand books: October 28

Will the Topp Twins take out the top spot?

Review: Penguin’s in-house anthology is a diverse assortment if necessarily not definitive

Short stories have always been a mainstay of New Zealand literature,

Review: An extraordinary fictional meditation on an atheist’s life in an Australian convent

Is Charlotte Wood worthy of being ranked alongside Elizabeth Strout? No question.

Reviews: Long-awaited releases from Lou Berney, Val McDermid and Chris Hammer

Three acclaimed authors are back with new mystery thrillers.

Review: Far Right rule, poisonous plants and a country club killing make for thrilling reads

"She knows she looks odd but she doesn’t care. And there is nobody to look at her."

Review: US general on changing warfare in the nuclear age

This is high-level military analysis of 70 years of war.

Review: NZ’s small towns are gone but not forgotten

They're places to linger in or pass through without a backward glance.

Top 10 best-selling New Zealand books: October 20

A few new titles made their way into this week's list.

An absorbing chronicle of four singular female philosophers whose ideas continue to resonate today

Simone Weil, born Jewish but inspired by Christianity, is the beating heart of this book.

Review: Mystery tale is interwoven with characters from a world-famous painting

The artistic centre of the novel is Diego Velázquez’s Las Meninas.

Top 10 best-selling New Zealand books: October 7th

Two newcomers make their way on to the list this week.

Review: New books on murder, misogyny & the missing

Returns for Outback noir, Lisbeth Salander and a person finder.

How the literary voice of Dunedin left a legacy

The late Peter Olds' dark, moody poems lay bare his life in the city.

Review: Fascinating account of one of history’s most prolific art thieves

Late 90s saw a European couple steal some 300 works from museums, castles and churches.

Review: Sobering book from one of the world’s foremost climate scientists

Michael Mann reveals the unprecedented nature of the threat to human existence.

Review: Bestselling crime novelist on her own memoir

Donna Leon produces a lively account of her life predominantly in Venice.