Here are some of our picks hot off the presses...

Serious But Good

The Fear The Last Days of Robert Mugabe Peter Godwin Picdor $43
Followin on from his compelling and moving memoirs Mukiwa and When the Crocodile Eats the Sun, this new book is a personal journey through the country Peter Godwin grew up in and knows so well- a landscape and a people grotesquelyaltered and laid waste by a raging despot.

Alone in Berlin and Every Man Dies Alone Hans Fallada Penguin $31 and $34
Named as best books by newspapers around the world These novels based on true stories by Hans Fallada who died in 1947. Listed as the most compelling novels of World War ll.

Bird Cloud Annie Proulx Harper Collins $35
Bird Cloud is where Annie Proulx Lives and in this memoir she describes discovering this special piece of Wyoming and how she has made her home in the wilderness.Annie Proulx will be in New Zealand as a guest of the Auckland Writers and Readers Festival later this year.

New Fiction

The Good Daughters Joyce Maynard Harper Collins $37
If you missed her last book, Labor Day, get your hands on a copy soon. This new book has all the makings of a bookclub favourite which include good characters carefully described setting and a very beautifully written story.

Fragile Beasts Tawni O'Dell John Murray $30
Her fourth novel and possibly one that will get her noticed by a wider audience ,which she certanly deserves Tani O'Dell is an author well worth checking out. Again a good choice for the wide and varied tastes that abound in bookclubs

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