2 Auē by Becky Manawatu (Mākaro Press, $35)
3 Aroha: Māori wisdom for a contented life lived in harmony with our planet by Dr Hinemoa Elder (Penguin, $30)
A beautiful little book containing 52 whakataukī – a proverb for every week of the year.
4 Imagining Decolonisation by Rebecca Kiddle, Bianca Elkington, Moana Jackson, Ocean Ripeka Mercier, Mike Ross, Jennie Smeaton and Amanda Thomas (Bridget Williams Books, $15)
$15!
6 Women Don’t Owe You Pretty by Florence Given (Cassell, $38)
They do not.
The Paris Review has published Roy’s introduction in full, including this snippet:
“Some of the essays in Azadi: Freedom. Fascism. Fiction. were written through the eyes of a novelist and the universe of her novels. Some of them are about how fiction joins the world and