Category: Thriller

Birnam Wood – Eleanor Catton

Posted on April 15, 2024 by

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READ FOR NZ BOOK AWARDS A guerilla gardening group and an immigrant billionaire are both using beautiful New Zealand land illegally. Unsurprisingly they discover one another and clash but when trouble strikes there is benefit in them colluding. A political and eco thriller about… Continue Reading “Birnam Wood – Eleanor Catton”

Category: Contemporary fiction, Environmental fiction, Female Experience, Kiwi lit, Literary fiction, Mystery/Crime, NZ Book Awards, Philosophical, Political, Psychological, Satire, ThrillerTags: , ,

Pet – Catherine Chidgey

Posted on April 5, 2024 by

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READ FOR NZ BOOK AWARDS Pet is a psychological thriller, about 12-year-old Justine and her fascination with her glamorous new teacher Mrs Price. She, and many of her classmates, are determined to be the teacher’s pet, clambering to help or do after-school jobs and… Continue Reading “Pet – Catherine Chidgey”

Category: Coming of Age, Cultural, Faith & Religion, Female Experience, Historical Fiction, Kiwi lit, Literary fiction, Mystery/Crime, NZ Book Awards, Political, Psychological, Thriller, Unreliable NarratorTags: , ,

Chain-Gang All-Stars – Nana Kwame Adiej-Brenvah

Posted on January 25, 2024 by

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READ FOR BOOKCLUBChosen by Jo Gladiators fight to the death to win their freedom In America’s private prisons. Loretta Thurwar and Hamara “Hurricane Staxxx” Stacker are the stars of Chain-Gang All-Stars, a televised, profit-making programme. This book is an exploration of the American prison… Continue Reading “Chain-Gang All-Stars – Nana Kwame Adiej-Brenvah”

Category: Adventure, Allegory, Dystopian, Female Experience, Literary fiction, National Book Awards, Philosophical, Political, Psychological, Queer, Satire, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Thriller, US fiction

Toto Amongst The Murderers – Sally J Morgan

Posted on April 4, 2021 by

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READ FOR NZ BOOK AWARDS ● In the 1970s, at age 21, Sally J Morgan was hitchhiking in Yorkshire and was offered a lift by Fred and Rosemary West. This close call inspired her novel Toto Amongst The Murderers, in which the protagonist, Toto, is… Continue Reading “Toto Amongst The Murderers – Sally J Morgan”

Category: Kiwi lit, Literary fiction, NZ Book Awards, Thriller

Twilight – Stephanie Meyer

Posted on July 7, 2009 by

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READ FOR BOOKCLUB Chosen by Nadine Seventeen-year-old Isabella Swan moves from Phoenix, Arizona to Forks, Washington and finds her life in danger when she falls in love with a vampire, Edward Cullen, whom she comes to consider her immortal soulmate. About three things I… Continue Reading “Twilight – Stephanie Meyer”

Category: Banned/controversial books, Coming of Age, Contemporary fiction, Fantasy, Female Experience, Gothic, Romance, Thriller, US fiction, YATags:

The Outcast – Sadie Jones

Posted on June 9, 2009 by

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READ FOR BOOKCLUB Chosen by Rachel Eight year old Lewis Alridge meets his father for the first time in 1945, newly returned from the war. Life awkwardly ekes by until one day there is a tragedy in the family which sets Lewis on a… Continue Reading “The Outcast – Sadie Jones”

Category: Coming of Age, Domestic Fiction, Family drama, Female Experience, Historical Fiction, Psychological, Realist, Thriller, UK author, Women's PrizeTags:

And Then There Were None – Agatha Christie

Posted on November 4, 2008 by

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READ FOR BOOKCLUB Chosen by Suzy Considered Agatha Christie’s masterpiece, this whodunnit is set on an island where the invitees of a party must work out who is killing off the guests. ♥ “An interesting assortment of strangers are summoned as weekend guests to… Continue Reading “And Then There Were None – Agatha Christie”

Category: Banned/controversial books, Classic literature, Mystery/Crime, Psychological, Thriller, UK authorTags:

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