Radio New Zealand Book Reviews
Nine to Noon Reviews for October 2026
East of Eden
Fri 2 October
$32.00
Author: John Steinbeck
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Reviewer: Unity Books
ISBN: 9780141185071
Women Without Men
Fri 2 October
$34.00
Author: Shahrnush Parsipur
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Reviewer: Unity Books
ISBN: 9780241792513
HIDE: A Manuscript
Mon 5 October
$30.00
Author: Rebecca Hawkes
Publisher: Nga Pukapuka Pekapeka
Reviewer: Airini Beautrais
ISBN: 9781067035563
Incident Report
Mon 5 October
$30.00
Author: Elizabeth Morton
Publisher: Otago University Press
Reviewer: Airini Beautrais
ISBN:
The Box
Wed 7 October
$38.00
Author: Mandy-Suzanne Wong
Publisher: St Martins Press
Reviewer: Stella Chrisostomou
ISBN:
Spent Light
Wed 7 October
$40.00
Author: Lara Pawson
Publisher: Text Publishing
Reviewer: Stella Chrisostomou
ISBN:
Olivetti
Wed 7 October
$20.00
Author: Allie Millington
Publisher: St Martins Press
Reviewer: Stella Chrisostomou
ISBN: 9781250326928
Tonight the Music Seems So Loud
Fri 9 October
$40.00
Author: Sathnam Sanghera
Publisher: Picador
Reviewer: Elisabeth Easther
ISBN:
Awake Awake
Fri 9 October
$38.00
Author: Pip Williams
Publisher: Affirm Press
Reviewer: Elisabeth Easther
ISBN:
Stations
Mon 12 October
$37.00
Author: Louise Kennedy
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Reviewer: Kiran Dass
ISBN: 9781526664334
The Starving Bride
Wed 14 October
$38.00
Author: Catherine Chidgey
Publisher: THWUP
Reviewer: Lucy Black
ISBN: 9781776923199
American Hagwon
Mon 19 October
$40.00
Author: Min Jin Lee
Publisher: HarperCollins
Reviewer: Jenna Todd
ISBN: 9780008823917
Partita
Mon 19 October
$38.00
Author: Barbara Kingsolver
Publisher: Faber
Reviewer: Jenna Todd
ISBN: 9780571404728
The 12 Levers
Wed 21 October
$45.00
Author: Spencer Greenberg & Jeremy Stevenson
Publisher: Dorling Kindersley
Reviewer: Cynthia Morahan
ISBN: 9780241746707
The Witches of Cambridge
Wed 21 October
$38.00
Author: Tess Redgrave
Publisher: The Cuba Press
Reviewer: Cynthia Morahan
ISBN: 9781067096656
Salt Quilt
Fri 23 October
$30.00
Author: Airini Beautrais
Publisher: THWUP
Reviewer: Chris Tse
ISBN: 9781776923328
LABOUR DAY WEEKEND
The Passing of the Forest
Wed 28 October
$75.00
Author: Richard Wolfe
Publisher: Oratia Books
Reviewer: Lynn Freeman
ISBN: 9781991353054
Sorry Rock
Wed 28 October
$35.00
Author: Thalia Henry
Publisher: Cloud Ink Press
Reviewer: Lynn Freeman
ISBN: 9781067132415
Introducing the English Text of the Treaty of Waitangi
Fri 30 October
$40.00
Author: Ned Fletcher
Publisher: Bridget Williams Books
Reviewer: Paul Diamond
ISBN: 9781991301727