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The man who emerged at liberation was a very different being: Art historian remembers her father

Mary Kisler's raw and personal account of her father’s rage-filled struggle with trauma.

Book of the day: Moral Ambition by Rutger Bregman

Dutch writer-activist delivers provocative guide to how to make the world a better place.

When the Going was Good: An editor’s adventures during the last golden age of magazines

One of the magazine world’s giants looks back.

Top 10 bestselling NZ books: April 19

The local books we've been buying this week.

Book of the day: How the World Made the West by Josephine Quinn

Idea that the 'civilised West' began with Greeks and Romans ignores earlier cultures.

Book of the day: Crush by Ada Calhoun

Novel about polyamory morphs into a veiled account of real-life marriage split.

Book of the day: The History of Sound by Ben Shattuck

The ebb and flow of time becomes the main focus in this memorable collection of stories.

Book of the day: Sea Change by Jenny Pattrick

A natural disaster reveals the fault-lines in a small community.

Writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on the grief which fuelled her latest novel

"We make small choices that can completely change the shape our lives take."

Top 10 bestselling NZ books: March 29

The local books we've been buying.

Three new crime books to check out this weekend

Latest thrillers dig into crime in Maine, Northern Ireland and NZ's own Hawke's Bay.

Book of the day: Skies of Thunder by Caroline Alexander

Epic tale of deadly but little-known, four-year wartime airlift across the Himalayas.

Book of the day: Waste Wars by Alexander Clapp

Dirty deals, international rivalries and the scandalous afterlife of rubbish exposed.

Mapping the Motu: How a new book tells the story of the NZ Wars through Māori perspectives

The Māori history redefining our understanding of the NZ Wars.

Book of the day: Theft by Abdulrazak Gurnah

Family dynamics at the heart of second book from the Tanzanian-British Nobel prizewinner.

The Age of Diagnosis: Does long Covid have a psychosomatic basis?

Don't be so quick to dismiss psychosomatic disorders. They produce real physical symptoms.