It’s all change at the top of the latest New Zealand Fiction for Adults bestseller chart. Deborah Challinor’s Blue Smoke has rocketed straight in at #1, knocking The Denniston Rose down to #2.

Challinor is a freelance writer and historian living in the Bay of Plenty. Blue Smoke is her third novel, following the bestselling Tamar and White Feathers. She's also written several nonfiction titles, including Who’ll Stop the Rain? and Grey Ghosts.

Jenny Pattrick’s sequel to The Denniston Rose, Heart Of Coal, is sitting tight at #3. And Witi Ihimaera takes the final two spots, with The Whale Rider reappearing at #4 and Whanau II slipping down a place to #5.

In the New Zealand Non Fiction for Adults top ten, there are three new entries.

David Slack’s Bullshit, Backlash And Bleeding Hearts debuts at #2, while Julia Hartley Moore’s Infidelity sneaks in at #6. Kidnapped In Yemen by Mary Quin debuts at #9.

Michael King’s Penguin History Of New Zealand maintains its customary spot at the top of the chart, and Spiros Zavos’ How To Watch A Game of Rugby is hanging in there at #10.