Category: Domestic Fiction

The Correspondent – Virginia Evans

Posted on April 30, 2026 by

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READ FOR WOMEN’S PRIZE Sybil Van Antwerp is an elderly former lawyer whose life is revealed through letters and emails to family, friends and acquaintances. When someone from her past reappears, Sybil is forced to revisit a painful period in her life. Through her… Continue Reading “The Correspondent – Virginia Evans”

Category: Contemporary fiction, Domestic Fiction, Epistolary fiction, Family drama, Literary fiction, Psychological, Unreliable Narrator, US fiction, Women's PrizeTags: ,

Hoods Landing – Laura Vincent

Posted on April 8, 2026 by

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READ FOR NZ BOOK AWARDS In the rural reaches of Auckland, the women of the eclectic Gordon family gather for Christmas. Rita, the 50-year-old baby of the family, is planning to tell them she has cancer. Drifting between past and present, she considers the… Continue Reading “Hoods Landing – Laura Vincent”

Category: Contemporary fiction, Domestic Fiction, Family drama, Female Experience, Gothic, Humour, Kiwi lit, Literary fiction, Māori Fiction, NZ Book Awards, QueerTags: , ,

Audition – Katie Kitamura

Posted on October 20, 2025 by

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READ FOR BOOKERTHON Two people meet for lunch in a Manhattan restaurant. She’s an accomplished actress in rehearsals for an upcoming premiere. He’s attractive, troubled, and young. Who is he to her, and who is she to him? In Audition, two competing but mirroring narratives… Continue Reading “Audition – Katie Kitamura”

Category: Art, Booker Prize, Domestic Fiction, Experimental fiction, Female Experience, Literary fiction, Metafiction, Philosophical, Postmodern Literature, Psychological, Thriller, Unreliable Narrator, US fiction, Women's PrizeTags: ,

Prophet Song – Paul Lynch

Posted on October 17, 2025 by

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READ FOR BOOKCLUBChosen by Tessa Prophet Song is set in an alternative Dublin where a tyrannical government is weaving its way into people’s lives, the rebels are rising up and society is slowly collapsing. It focuses on one family who suffer in many ways and… Continue Reading “Prophet Song – Paul Lynch”

Category: Booker Prize, Domestic Fiction, Dystopian, Family drama, Female Experience, Irish, Literary fiction, Philosophical, Political, Psychological, Realist, Speculative Fiction, Thriller, War storyTags: ,

The Land In Winter – Andrew Miller

Posted on October 5, 2025 by

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READ FOR BOOKERTHON Bristol, 1962, post-war optimism is fading, and a new, modern world forming. Two young couples live next to each other: a doctor and his wife in a beautiful cottage, a farmer and his wife in a rundown, under-heated farmhouse. Both women… Continue Reading “The Land In Winter – Andrew Miller”

Category: Booker Prize, Domestic Fiction, Family drama, Female Experience, Historical Fiction, Literary fiction, Psychological, Realist, UK authorTags: ,

The Rest Of Our Lives – Ben Markovits

Posted on September 30, 2025 by

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READ FOR BOOKERTHON When Tom Layward’s wife had an affair he resolved to leave her as soon as his youngest daughter turned eighteen. Twelve years later, while taking her to Pittsburgh to start university, he remembers his pact, and keeps driving West. This road… Continue Reading “The Rest Of Our Lives – Ben Markovits”

Category: Booker Prize, Contemporary fiction, Domestic Fiction, Family drama, Literary fiction, Philosophical, Psychological, Realist, Road Trip, US fictionTags: ,

Hum – Helen Phillips

Posted on September 17, 2025 by

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READ FOR BOOKCLUBChosen by Rachel In a climate ravaged dystopian future where robots (Hums) take the every day jobs of humans and surveillance is at an all time high, a woman undergoes experiental facial surgery in order to pay her bills and treat her… Continue Reading “Hum – Helen Phillips”

Category: AI, Climate Fiction, Climate Fiction Prize, Contemporary fiction, Domestic Fiction, Dystopian, Environmental fiction, Family drama, Female Experience, Literary fiction, Political, Psychological, Realist, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Surreal, Thriller, US fictionTags:

Tell Me Everything – Elizabeth Strout

Posted on June 23, 2025 by

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READ FOR WOMEN’S PRIZEElizabeth Strout returns the reader to the town of Crosby, Maine, and finally brings together characters from her past fictional successes: Lucy Barton, Olive Kitteridge and Bob Burgess. There is a shocking crime committed, relationships examined and many stories told as… Continue Reading “Tell Me Everything – Elizabeth Strout”

Category: Contemporary fiction, Domestic Fiction, Family drama, Literary fiction, Mystery/Crime, Philosophical, Psychological, US fiction, Women's PrizeTags: ,

Delirious – Damien Wilkins

Posted on April 23, 2025 by

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READ FOR NZ BOOK AWARDS Retired cop and librarian Mary and Pete are struggling with ailments and deciding whether to move into a retirement home or stay in their family home. Then the police ask to speak to them about the accident that killed… Continue Reading “Delirious – Damien Wilkins”

Category: Contemporary fiction, Domestic Fiction, Family drama, Humour, Kiwi lit, Literary fiction, NZ Book Awards, Psychological, RealistTags: , ,

The Mires – Tina Makereti

Posted on April 4, 2025 by

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READ FOR NZ BOOK AWARDS Three neighbouring families in a small New Zealand town become acquaintances, some get along, others are suspicious of each other. Some share an attraction, another has a strange gift for premonition and another is acting cagey and has secrets… Continue Reading “The Mires – Tina Makereti”

Category: Climate Fiction, Colonisation, Contemporary fiction, Cultural, Domestic Fiction, Environmental fiction, Female Experience, Immigrant story, Kiwi lit, Literary fiction, Magical Realism, Māori Fiction, NZ Book Awards, Political, Realist, Speculative FictionTags: , ,

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