Novel Archives - Aotearoa New Zealand Review of Books

African Fiction Literary Fiction Novel

Ndima Ndima
by Tsitsi Mapepa

An 'utterly original' debut novel set in post-Independence Zimbabwe

Anne KennedyNovember 15, 2023

Asian Fiction Literary Fiction Novel

Backwaters
by Emma Ling Sidnam

A debut novel that's a 'story of becoming' and of exploring the unknowable past.

Melanie KwangOctober 11, 2023

Fiction Novel Speculative Fiction Thriller

Emergency Weather
by Tim Jones

A Cli Fi thriller hurls a superstorm at Wellington.

Andrew Paul WoodOctober 4, 2023

Fiction Literary Fiction Māori Novel

The Bone Tree
by Airana Ngarewa

'Big things happen' in a dark debut novel set in Taranaki.

Kelly Ana MoreyAugust 18, 2023

Fiction Literary Fiction Novel

The Waters
by Carl Nixon

A novel-in-stories interrogates generational trauma in a Canterbury family.

Rebecca HillAugust 4, 2023

Fiction Literary Fiction Novel Speculative Fiction

Audition
by Pip Adam

An ingenious exploration of constraints – and Space.

Angelique KasmaraJuly 12, 2023

Fiction Novel YA

Catch a Falling Star
by Eileen Merriman

'Dark, bookish' teen drama from the doyenne of medical YA.

Erica StrettonJuly 5, 2023

Fiction Historical Fiction Literary Fiction Novel

The Witching Tide
by Margaret Meyer

The horror: a shocking story of witch trials in seventeenth-century East Anglia.

Sue ReidyJune 22, 2023

Fiction Literary Fiction Mystery Novel

Pet
by Catherine Chidgey

An unsettling, expert psychodrama in 'the intense hothouse' of a convent school.

Sue ReidyJune 9, 2023

Fiction Novel

Everything is Beautiful and Everything Hurts
by Josie Shapiro

A sparkling debut novel about big dreams and long races.

Rebecca HillMay 17, 2023

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