Congratulations Michael Bennett, @MBennettBooks - Best Novel winner at the 2025 Ngaio Awards for Return to Blood, second in the Hana Westerman series #YeahNoir #AotearoaReads

Huge congrats to history-maker @MBennettBooks (Ngati Pikiao, Ngati Whakaue) who by winning #2025Ngaios Best Novel for superb RETURN TO BLOOD becomes our 1st Best First Novel winner to later win Best Novel for a new book (and joins Paul Cleave as only 3x Ngaios winners!) #yeahnoir

A gripping suspenseful thriller which engages the reader with the inner lives and motivations of the protagonists: The Good Father by @LiamMcIlvanney My Review: https://t.co/gUxXcrLg4K #YeahNoir #ReadNZ @ZaffreBooks

A magnificant piece of creative non-fiction by Sophy Roberts. Colonial brutality, and the heartbreaking stories of the four Asian Elephants shipped from India and forced to walk across the harsh landscapes of Tanzania, part of Leopold’s rapacious Congo plans #ThePowerOfReading

An alternate history, a bildungsroman, a mystery to solve, a #YeahNoir thriller, a cautionary tale, a vivid description of the self-serving cruelty of those in power - The Book of Guilt by @CathChidgey My Review: https://t.co/FeVuseDD9B #ReadNZ #AotearoaReads @thwupbooks

An excellent continuation of the Hana Westerman series, full of warmth and threat, Carved in Blood by @MBennettBooks My review: https://t.co/8zkhGX84Vp #YeahNoir #AotearoaReads #ReadNZ @simonschuster

An exquisite depiction of colonial attitudes - Taiwan Travelogue by Yáng Shuāng-zǐ, translated by Lin King #ThePowerOfReading

Northbound by @naomiarnold - a love song to Aotearoa, to its beauty, its dangers, and its people. My review: https://t.co/k1wQv3QiRA #TeAraroa #AotearoaReads #ReadNZ @HarperNZ

A stunnng evokation of intergenerational trauma, breathtaking - We Do Not Part by @HanKangOfficial #ThePowerOfReading

Nine tails. Nine tales. Nine mortal lives - Fox Spirit on a Distant Cloud by Lee Murray, wonderfully conceived and executed. My review: https://t.co/9woxpaaToY #YeahNoir #AotearoaReads @TheCubaPress

Sometimes it is leaving your comfort and braving it with complete strangers that can trigger healing – At the Grand Glacier Hotel by Laurence Fearnley - a wonderful book. My review: https://t.co/sIiFisgu9j #AotearoaReads #ReadNZ @PenguinBooks_NZ

A riveting depiction of the fracturing of a stable reality – personal, institutional, and societal: The Royal Free by @CarlShuker My review: https://t.co/D2cBBeveog #YeahNoir #ReadNZ @thwupbooks

“Investigating a murder that involves the Church never ends well in Florence”, Aldo and Strocchi have more murders to solve – A Divine Fury by D. V. Bishop - my review of the latest Cesare Aldo mystery: https://t.co/nMpD2GjOFM #YeahNoir #CesareAldo https://t.co/9H3UUtrVxf

"Apparently it was permissable to recall and return all that she had sought to cherish on this earth" - second inspiring read of 2025: Concerning the Future of Souls by Joy Williams #ThePowerOfReading

"Rejoice, small ant, she thought, in your one life, though too soon dimmed it shall be" - great start to 2025 reading: The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff, @legroff. #ThePowerOfReading

“The fables come always to the same end; this beautiful bird that touched all who met with them or heard their call from their forest places, is gone.” The Huia & Our Tears by Ray Ching. My review: https://t.co/qjzyCyuDUs #AotearoaReads #ReadNZ

So universities will have to allow the views the government wants. But will be banned from holding views and positions the government don’t want them to? What kinda contradictory heavy handed government control policy is this?

We cannot leave this to chance. Before the holidays hit, we encourage everyone to take a stance & make their submission against this Government’s backwards, moumou moni, moumou tāima (waste of money, waste of time) #TreatyPrinciplesBill. #nzpol Link below

“Exhilaration, anxiety, rapture, depression, tenderness, anger, hope, despair.” The breathtaking endless spiralling journey that is Orbital by Samantha Harvey @SolstadDag223. What a reading experience! #Orbital #ThePowerOfReading

You can actually take a day trip to Ngamba Island Chimpanzee Sanctuary, where you can view, feed & learn about chimpanzees up close This sanctuary combines conservation, education & leisure, with a scenic beach for relaxation #ExploreUganda