Afternoon Book Club reading lists

April 2019

Topic: New Zealand History

• Kitty by Deborah Challinor
• A Conscientious Bloody Clergyman curated by the Waipu 150 Trust
• An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand in 3 volumes
• Parihaka: the art of passive resistance ed by Te Miringa, Gregory O’Brien and Lara Strongman
• Volcanoes of the South Wind: a volcanic guide to Tongariro National Park by Karen Williams
• Aotearoa: the New Zealand story by Gavin Bishop
• A Savage Country by Paul Moon
• 12 Rules for Life: an antidote to chaos by Jordan B Peterson
• Sleeps Standing Moetu: a story of the battle of Orakau by Witi Ihimaera and Hemi Kelly
• Ancient Celtic New Zealand by Martin Doutre
• People, People, People: a brief history of New Zealand by Stevan Eldred-Grigg
• The Western Front: a guide to New Zealand battlefields and memorials by Ian McGibbon
• The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli

March 2019

Topic: exploration

• Love as a Stranger by Owen Marshall
• The White Clock by Owen Marshall
• The Best of Owen Marshall’s Short Stories
• The Lost City of Z by David Grann
• Tambora by Gillen D’Arcy Wood
• Walking with James Hogg by Bruce Gilkison
• Deviate: the science of seeing differently by Beau Lotto
• Water Colour by W Koschatzky
• The Language of Dying by Sarah Pinborough
• On the Edge of Infinity by Stefan Klein
• Blue Horses: poems by Mary Oliver
• Kermadec ed by Gregory 0’Brien and Bronwyn Golder
• Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls by David Sedaris
• A Ladder to the Sky by John Boyne
• A Patch of Paradise by Gaia Grant
• Arctic Summer by Damon Galgut 

February 2019

Topic: a holiday read

• The Vanishing of Audrey Wilde by Eve Chase
• The Homecomings by Marcia Willett
• Summer at the Cornish Café by Phillipa Ashley
• Christmas at the Cornish Café by Phillipa Ashley
• Confetti at the Cornish Café by Phillipa Ashley
• Sea Prayer by Khaled Hosseini
• Winter in Paradise by Elin Hilderbrand
• Small Fry by Lisa Brennan-Jobs
• Love is Blind by William Boyd
• Becoming by Michelle Obama
• Bridge of Clay by Markus Zusak
• Just Paint It by Sam Piyasena and Beverly Philp
• Adventures in Mixed Media by Jane Davies
• Hundertwasser by Pierre Restany
• Hundertwasser Graphic Works 1994-2000
• Written for Children by John Rowe Townsend
• Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
• Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
• The Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales
• A Death of No Importance by Mariah Fredericks
• Middle England by Jonathan Coe
• In a House of Lies by Ian Rankin
• The Word is Murder by Anthony Horowitz
• The Sentence is Death by Anthony Horowitz
• The Murder Bag by Tony Parsons
• The Hanging Club by Tony Parsons
• A Rare Benedictine by Ellis Peters
• Fallen into the Pit by Ellis Peters
• Reality is Not What It Seems by Carlo Rovelli
• Seven Brief Lessons on Physics by Carlo Rovelli
• Moscow Rules by Daniel Silva
• Finding Eliza by Heather Whitford Roche
• Out in the West, The Sea Beats Down by Arne Garborg
• Sugar Money by Jane Harris
• Big Guns by Steve Israel
• The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell