10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World by Elif Shafak
And why was the price of not saying the right words at the right time so high?
Auē by Becky Manawatu
Maybe the day my family stopped existing, I did too.
The Tea Girl of Humming Bird Lane by Lisa See
“No coincidence, no story,”
Late in the Day by Tessa Hadley
“Christine didn’t tell Alex that she’d invited Lydia to live with them”
My Brother’s Name is Jessica by John Boyne
All Sam wants is his brother back, their family to be the way it used to be.
Sodden Downstream by Brannavan Gnanalingam
At the end, I didn’t know whether to despair or hope for Sita. I still don’t.
A Ladder to the Sky by John Boyne
Maurice Swift will do anything, anything, to get his name on the cover of a book.
At Dusk by Hwang Sok-yong
In the end those landmarks of his life, which might have guided him onwards, are quite gone.
The New Ships by Kate Duignan
A finely crafted novel that traverses the territory of love and loss, broken family ties, and political upheaval
This Mortal Boy by Fiona Kidman
Sometimes there is a prescience to novels, as if certain books have their particular time.
Jill's Scene 
The korero