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Mark Broatch

Reporter · NZ

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Sep 4, 2026
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  1. Article · Sep 4, 2026 · Mark Broatch

    Top 10 bestselling New Zealand books: September 5 (opens the original)

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    Local heroes: Our best selling NZ books. Images / Supplied 1. (1) Lucky You’re Tough by Mark Law & Ron Crosby (Allen & Unwin) The memoir of an unassuming true-life hero. From the publisher: “Lucky You’re Tough chronicles the life of helicopter pilot and NZSAS soldier Mark Law, from growing up in the rural wilds of Whangamōmona through to surviving a series of life-threatening events that would shape his life and career. “After a career as a badged soldier in the NZSAS that led to an intriguing s

  2. Article · Aug 25, 2026 · Mark Broatch

    Book of the day: The Cauldron: The Making of the Modern Middle East by Simon Sebag Montefiore (opens the original)

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    The Cauldron: The Making of the Modern Middle East, by Simon Sebag Montefiore (W&H), is out in hardback and digital now. A paperback of the book will be published in 2027. Image / Supplied There have been major histories of the Middle East before, including exemplars by Peter Mansfield, Bernard Lewis, and Cleveland and Bunton, and others on aspects of the region, including the Arabs, Islam and Simon Sebag Montefiore’s sweeping chronicle of Jerusalem. Now we have THE CAULDRON: The Making of the M

  3. Article · Aug 22, 2026 · Mark Broatch

    Top 10 bestselling New Zealand books: August 23 (opens the original)

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    The Bookshop Detectives: Murder and Mojitos, One Last Question, Prime Minister and A Bushman's Book of Yarns are among the biggest selling NZ books of the week. Images / Supplied 1. (1) Murder and Mojitos by Gareth and Louise Ward (Penguin) The third and apparently final cosy crime novel in the Bookshop Detectives series by two actual bookshop owners. From the publisher: “Booksellers Garth and Eloise Sherlock (and their cowardly dog, Stevie) have been roped into hosting Murder and Mojitos, a gla

  4. Article · Aug 19, 2026 · Mark Broatch

    Writers hit the jackpot in 2026 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults (opens the original)

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    Sacha Cotter and Josh Morgan have become four time winners at the NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults. Photo / Supplied “Storytelling at its finest,” reckoned the judges about the winner of the top prize at this year’s New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults. Sacha Cotter and Josh Morgan’s A Guide to Rocks (Huia), which has nothing to do with stones or boulders but rather heavy feelings and how young people can best deal with them, took out the Margaret Mahy Book of the Ye

  5. Article · Jul 29, 2026 · Mark Broatch

    Book of the day: Everything was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt by Ben Reeves (opens the original)

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    Ben Reeves: Writes with humanity and a comforting humour. Photo / Supplied These are the opening lines: “The silver car tumbles end-over-end five times before resting on its roof at the crossroads. A traffic light shifts from red to green, detecting nothing wrong with this arrival, and the headlights glare through the rain, and the wheels keep spinning, flicking their spray at no one in the empty street … Nothing moves but everything speaks – the car speaks, the signs speak. It all speaks, so qu

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