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A New Zealand books bonanza

Category: Arts
Duration: 01:27:19
Publish Date: 2021-02-02 23:09:00
Description:

It’s the most exciting time of the year in the New Zealand book world as the Ockham New Zealand Book Award longlist has just been announced. We also have a line up of three New Zealand books for review and have a wee look at what’s on the reading pile and coming out in 2021.


Mentioned in this episode...


Books

KD: Gangland by Jared Savage, with a mention of Patched by Jarrod Gilbert (HarperCollins NZ)

Mary Holm on RNZ’s Bookmarks

Gyles Beckford on RNZ’s Bookmarks

LK:Victory Park by Rachel Kerr (Makaro Press)

Kiran’s interview with Rachel for the NZ Herald.

JT: Remote Sympathy by Catherine Chidgey (VUP)


Not Books

KD: Michael Apted’s Seven Up series 

LK: What Writers and Editors Do by Karl Ove Knausgaard on The Paris Review blog

JT: Bling Empire and Pretend it’s a City (both Netflix)


The TBR Pile

KD: The Mirror Book by Charlotte Grimshaw, A Crooked Tree by Una Mannion, Kitchenly 434 by Alan Warner, The Young Team by Graeme Armstrong

LK: Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb, At Freddie’s by Penelope Fitzgerald, with a mention of I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith

JT: Remaining Ockham fiction longlist to read: Bug Week by Airini Beautrais and Toto Among the Murderers by Sally Morgan


Book News


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