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Booklovers share their favourite reads from August
Looking for something new to read? Experts share what’s caught their eye recently.
![Book and show's historic photos a local feast](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=820)
Book and show's historic photos a local feast
OPINION: Contemporary artists reinterpret and reframe the past.
![Popular book fair bucks the retail trend](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=820)
Popular book fair bucks the retail trend
Steady sales over four days results in record income of more than $20k.
![What new biography reveals about Queen Elizabeth II](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=820)
What new biography reveals about Queen Elizabeth II
REVIEW: Craig Brown's funny, fact-filled biography of the late monarch.
![How Chicken Soup for the Soul entangled a titan of private credit](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=820)
How Chicken Soup for the Soul entangled a titan of private credit
Financial Times: Chicken Soup fight's ugliness has shocked even distressed debt veterans.
!['The system can’t be wrong, what have you done' and other stories about how AI is ruining lives](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=820)
'The system can’t be wrong, what have you done' and other stories about how AI is ruining lives
The author of a new book on AI says it is 'too important to be left to technologists'.
![The Chase star Paul Sinha: Why I continued my stand-up show after two heart attacks](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=820)
The Chase star Paul Sinha: Why I continued my stand-up show after two heart attacks
Telegraph: With huge financial losses, the show had to go on for The Sinnerman
![Bill Bryson on semi-retirement: ‘I can barely write a postcard now’](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=820)
Bill Bryson on semi-retirement: ‘I can barely write a postcard now’
Times: Bryson on why he's updating A Short History of Nearly Everything.
![How to write truly hot, non-cringey sex scenes (and 9 books that get it right)](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=820)
How to write truly hot, non-cringey sex scenes (and 9 books that get it right)
Times: Author Kate Weinberg searches for the secret of really good sex – on the page.
![Why John Mulaney is conspicuously absent from Anna Marie Tendler's memoir](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=820)
Why John Mulaney is conspicuously absent from Anna Marie Tendler's memoir
Times: Memoir details stay in psychiatric hospital after famous comedian husband left her.
![Opinion: The viral literary queen who’s bigger than the Bible](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=820)
Opinion: The viral literary queen who’s bigger than the Bible
OPINION: The accidental TikTok sensation has sold more than 30 million books.
![Life as a mixed-race New Zealander explored in Kaitāia man Mike Bentley's poetry](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=820)
Life as a mixed-race New Zealander explored in Kaitāia man Mike Bentley's poetry
The new book focuses on life as a Palagi-Samoan Kiwi.
!['A colourful celebration of literature': Kids dress up for Awapuni School Book Parade](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=820)
'A colourful celebration of literature': Kids dress up for Awapuni School Book Parade
Pages came to life as Awapuni students dressed up as their favourite book characters.
![The Oedipus complex has been debunked — but mummy’s boys shouldn’t celebrate just yet](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=820)
The Oedipus complex has been debunked — but mummy’s boys shouldn’t celebrate just yet
Why it’s time to take Freud’s disturbing theory about childhood seriously.
![Family discover mum had a secret son – a famous league player](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=820)
Family discover mum had a secret son – a famous league player
‘Mum had lived and died with this secret,’ says writer Mary Garden.
![Control, paranoia and fear: A chilling memoir that tradwife fans need to read](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=820)
Control, paranoia and fear: A chilling memoir that tradwife fans need to read
Tia Levings was a 'well-trained wife'. Now she's lifting the lid on what that meant.
![BookTok: 'Worst nightmare' TikTok trend](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=820)
BookTok: 'Worst nightmare' TikTok trend
OPINION: 'These people are promoting books as a lifestyle'.
!['Shop Local' the catchcry as Gisborne’s Paper Plus triumphs at NZ book industry awards](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=820)
'Shop Local' the catchcry as Gisborne’s Paper Plus triumphs at NZ book industry awards
'It’s wonderful to be recognised here in Tairāwhiti': Paper Plus Gisborne owner.
![Review: Poet Ian Rockel’s new work is a ‘cosmic revelation’](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=820)
Review: Poet Ian Rockel’s new work is a ‘cosmic revelation’
Review: An octogenarian poet confronts war, love, sea creatures and mortality.
![‘Fat girls need love too’: The heartbreaking life and cruel death of Mama Cass](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=820)
‘Fat girls need love too’: The heartbreaking life and cruel death of Mama Cass
Elliott’s talents were often overshadowed by lies, gossip and callous talk of her weight.