Book Club recommended reads

True Red: The life of an ex Mongrel Mob Gang Leader by Isaac Bruno

Wearing the colour red, living by the 'law of lawlessness' and having the patch with the emblem of the mighty bulldog on your back was what ex-Mongrel Mob leader Tuhoe ‘Bruno’ Isaac called being True Red. "Because all levels of society hated us we created a new society of hatred symbolised by the bulldog. Its ferocious habits were engraved on our hearts." Tuhoe says, "If you weren't a mobster you weren't worth knowing."

Non-fiction: 364.1092 ISAz (held in Stack, please ask)

Not Forgetting the Whale by John Ironmonger

When a young man washes up, naked, on the sands of St Piran, he is quickly rescued by the villagers. From the retired village doctor and the schoolteacher, to the beachcomber and the owner of the local bar, the priest's wife and the romantic novelist, they take this lost soul into their midst.

Fiction: IRO

 Bulibasha by Witi Ihimaera

Caught in the middle of the struggle between two great Māori clans, Simeon, grandson of Bulibasha and Ramona, struggles with his own feelings and loyalties as the battles rage.  The book of the recent film Mahana.

NZ Fiction:  IHIz

Zoo City by Lauren Beukes

Zinzi has a sloth on her back, a dirty 419 scam habit, and a talent for finding lost things. But when a little old lady turns up dead and the cops confisccate her last paycheck, she's forced to take on her least favourite kind of job - missing persons.

Winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award.

Science fiction/Fantasy: BEU

Recipe for Life by Nicki Pellegrino

A recipe for life should be a simple thing: love and happiness, family, friends and a little food. But life is rarely straightforward...Alice wants to make the most of life - after all, she knows how fragile it can be - and knows she never feels more alive than when she's cooking.

NZ fiction:  PELz