With Waitangi Weekend and Easter still to come, we’ve put together some of our favourite titles from our summer holiday reading
The Thursday Murder Club
Richard Osman
In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet to discuss unsolved crimes, calling themselves The Thursday Murder Club. When a local developer is found dead next to a mysterious photograph, the club suddenly find themselves in the middle of their first live case. Then, as the bodies pile up, the gang must catch the killer before it’s too late.
The Girl With The Louding Voice
Abi Dare
The inspiring story of a teenage girl from a Nigerian village who longs to get an education to find her “louding voice” and speak up for herself. The Girl with the Louding Voice is a simultaneously heartbreaking and triumphant tale about the power of fighting for your dreams that sees Adunni determined to build a future of her choosing, while helping other girls like her do the same.
A Diamond In The Dust
Frauke Bolten-Boshammer
Within minutes of landing in Kununurra, Western Australia, Frauke Bolten made up her mind to return home to Germany. In 1981, the dusty frontier town was no place for a woman. However, Frauke stayed to help her farmer husband, who, three years later, took his own life, leaving her to raise their family. Twenty-six years after she sold her first necklace off the back porch, Kimberley Fine Diamonds is now home to one of the world’s largest collections of Argyle pink diamonds, with a client list that includes Nicole Kidman. Frauke is credited for not only pioneering an industry, but for putting the tiny outback town and its precious diamonds on the map.
Klara And The Sun
Kazuo Ishiguro
From the Nobel Prize-winning, best-selling author of The Remains of the Day, is a stunning new novel about the mystery of the human heart. From her place in the store, Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, watches browsing customers, and those who pass on the street. She remains hopeful that a customer will soon choose her, but when the possibility emerges that her circumstances may change forever, Klara is warned not to invest too much in the promises of humans.
