THE APPRENTICE WITNESSER
by Bren MacDibble (A&U, $19.99)
Western Australia-resident Kiwi Bren MacDibble has impressive credentials –she has won our junior fiction award twice (for and and, as Cally Black, taken the YA award for Now she continues her climate-crisis adventure novels with a tale featuring endearing, resilient characters in a postpandemic, post-industrial setting that addresses perhaps our most pressing