It’s compassionate and gentle, and so bereft of cynicism it feels almost radical.”Ģ Towards a Grammar of Race in Aotearoa New Zealand edited by Arcia Tecun, Lana Lopesi and Anisha Sankar (Bridget Williams Books, $40)Ī tidbit from Tze Ming Mok’s essay, recently published on The Spinoff: “How can Asians be white? Or, for that matter, Black? It was a statement about perceived hierarchy and alignment, dovetailing neatly with colour, which is what ‘race’ boils down to: a concept that can be used as a ‘master category’ that encompasses ethnicity and hints at superseding it, as structure swallows agency.”ģ Atomic Habits by James Clear (Random House, $40) These strong, mixed words from the Guardian: “McEwan’s 17th novel is old-fashioned, digressive and indulgently long the hero is a gold-plated ditherer, and the story opens with a teenage wank (few books are improved by an achingly sentimental wank). Lessons has been compared to William Boyd’s Any Human Heart and John Boyne’s The Heart’s Invisible Furies for its focus on an ordinary man’s life, and its sweeping timeframe which covers 70 years of history. Tales of escape mine room how to#The most beloved (or at least purchased) book across the board, second week running! Ian McEwan knows how to entice a crowd to a bookstore. AUCKLANDġ Lessons by Ian McEwan (Jonathon Cape, $37) You can order her books from Unity Books Wellington or Unity Books Auckland online stores today. Her writing about sex and love is among the most unashamed and vivid feminist storytelling of our time. Special honorary mention today to French author Annie Ernaux who has just been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 2022, “for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory”.Įrnaux’s books mine her own life to place herself and everything that happens to her within the wider contexts of place, cultural history and politics. The only published and available best-selling indie book chart in New Zealand is the top 10 sales list recorded every week at Unity Books’ stores in High St, Auckland, and Willis St, Wellington.
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