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2023-11

2023-11

Ties That Break with Mick Cummins

MICK CUMMINS is a screenwriter and playwright whose works include, Window Without a View and Perfect Madness. His debut ...

Saving Bunji: A girl and a rescued kangaroo

In 2016, BRINKLEY DAVIES was in a car that hit a mother kangaroo. She was determined to rear the surviving joey and named ...

Books for music fans

This year sees a plethora of books about musicians and the industry hitting the shelves. Good Reading takes a look at what’s ...

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The Paris Cooking School by Sophie Beaumont

The Paris Cooking School by Sophie Beaumont

There’s nothing quite so beautiful as Paris in the spring. When you add in the chance to learn the French way of ...
Good Life Growing by Hannah Moloney

Good Life Growing by Hannah Moloney

Most people would know Hannah Moloney as a presenter on Gardening Australia on ABC TV. She is the one with the ...
Mrs Winterbottom Takes a Gap Year by Joanna Nell

Mrs Winterbottom Takes a Gap Year by Joanna Nell

Heather Winterbottom is in the process of ‘moving on’ with life. She's into retirement, after she and her husband, ...
Borderland by Graham Akhurst

Borderland by Graham Akhurst

Borderland is an interesting novel, which looks at belonging, environmental issues, and Aboriginal dreaming ...

Good Reading Podcast

Good Reading Podcast

Tracy Ryan on The Queen’s Apprenticeship

Tracy Ryan on The Queen’s Apprenticeship

Charlotte Wood on Stone Yard Devotional

Charlotte Wood on Stone Yard Devotional

Rachelle Unreich on a story of survival in A Brilliant Life

Rachelle Unreich on a story of survival in A Brilliant Life

Katharine J Adams on the magic of Tonight, I Burn

Katharine J Adams on the magic of Tonight, I Burn

Book Briefs

2023 Ngaio Marsh Award Winners

2023 Ngaio Marsh Award Winners

A trio of superb Kiwi writers were honoured as they scooped the 2023 Ngaio Marsh Awards for books delivering rich ...
Prophet Song wins 2023 Booker Prize

Prophet Song wins 2023 Booker Prize

Paul Lynch has won the 2023 Booker Prize, worth £50,000 for his book Prophet Song. Chair of Judges, Esi ...
What Readers are Buying Right Now

What Readers are Buying Right Now

What books are rushing out of bookshops and libraries at present? Here are five books that readers are buying or ...
The Queen’s Gambit stage adaptation

The Queen’s Gambit stage adaptation

A musical adaptation of Walter Tevis' bestselling novel, The Queen's Gambit, is currently in the works. A musical ...
This is a very, VERY long word!

This is a very, VERY long word!

We love words. Short ones, long ones, and even unsayable ones.   The longest word in the Oxford English ...

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