The only published and available best-selling indie book chart in New Zealand is the top 10 sales list recorded every week at Unity Books’ stores in High St, Auckland, and Willis St, Wellington.
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1 Helen Kelly: Her Life by Rebecca Macfie (Awa Press, $50)
From the publisher’s blurb: “Kell
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1 Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro (Faber & Faber, $37)
On Saturday night you can watch Ishiguro on livestream at the Auckland Writers Festival. The event is amusingly (depending on how you feel about puns) called A NOBEL LIFE: KAZUO ISHIGURO. Because, you know, Ishiguro won the Nobel Prize for Literature, and he always comes across as… well, you get the idea.
2 First Person Singular: Stories by Haruki Murakami (Penguin Random House, $45)
“I hardly ever wear suits. At most, maybe two or three times a year, since there are rarely any situations where I need to get dressed up. I may wear a casual jacket on occasion, but no tie, or leather shoes. That’s the type of life I chose for myself, so that’s how things have worked out.”
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The only published and available best-selling indie book chart in New Zealand is the top 10 sales list recorded every week at Unity Books’ stores in High St, Auckland, and Willis St, Wellington.
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Winner of the 2021 Booker Prize.
2 How to Avoid a Climate Disaster by Bill Gates (Allen Lane, $48)
From the New York Times review: “Power comes in many forms, from geothermal and nuclear to congressional and economic; it’s wonderful that Gates has decided to work hard on climate questions, but to be truly helpful he needs to resolve to be a better geek he needs to really get down on his hands and knees and examine how that power works in all its messiness. Politics very much included.”
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The only published and available best-selling indie book chart in New Zealand is the top 10 sales list recorded every week at Unity Books’ stores in High St, Auckland, and Willis St, Wellington.
AUCKLAND
1 Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro (Faber & Faber, $37)
New Ishiguro! New Ishiguro! It really should be shouted from the rooftops. (As should the fact that he’s appearing via livestream at the Auckland Writers Festival, in May.)
The Nobel Prize and Man Booker winner’s eighth novel is narrated by Klara, an android or “Artificial Friend” bought as a companion for an ill young woman in a strange future version of America. Ishiguro delves back into themes he explored in Never Let Me Go – and yes, it stacks up, and yes, you should read it.