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95bFM's Loose Reads: When the Going Was Good by...

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2025/04/28

George visited his old mates at95bFM this week to talk about When the Going Was Good, the new memoir from former Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter. At once a delightful chronicle of an extraordinary career, and a love-letter to the halcyon days of magazine publishing, this memoir neatly blends gossip and history. Come for Carter’s juicy encounters with celebrities and politicians, stay for his moving reflections on the importance of investigative journalism and the unique beauty of the written word

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95bFM's Loose Reads: Stag Dance by Torrey Peters

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2025/04/14

Stag Dance is the latest outrageous literary offering by Women’s Prize shortlisted author Torrey Peters. Comprised of three short stories and a novella, Stag Dance writhes through genders and genres, refracting facets of gender through the light of romance, dystopia and classical Westerns. Infect Your Friends and Loved Ones is set in a dystopian future, following dealers in a black market for hormones who hawk their wares to the trans and cis communities alike. The Chaser follows a young teenager at

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95bFM's Loose Reads: Perfection by Vincenzo Latronico

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2025/04/07

We have a book from the International Booker Prize longlist, the big prize for both authors and translators. Perfection was written in Italian, but is set in Berlin. Following creatives Anna & Tom as they navigate life & search for meaning as Millennials in a changing city.Other books mentioned on today’s episode:No Words for This by Ali MauA Life Less Punishing by Matt HeathSee How they Fall by Rachel ParisThe Let Them Theory by Mel RobbinsCareless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams Listen to

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Bestsellers for March 2025

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2025/03/31

Click on the covers to shop!TOP 5 BOOKSKID'S BOOKS View previous Bestsellers

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95bFM's Loose Reads: Clay Eaters by Gregory Kan

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2025/03/31

Gregory Kan is an Ockham shortlisted author living in Poneke who has released two acclaimed poetry collections; This Paper Boatin 2016 and Under Glass in 2019. He's also a coder who's created an incredible text manipulator called leaves.glass.Clay Eatersis an eagerly-awaited release by Kan. This is a book of fragments- strands that tenuously link the past, present and future.Clay Eatersexplores the ephemeral nature of our corporeal bodies; spectres springing forty from decaying ends. As all turns to

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Book Review: Twist by Colum McCann

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2025/03/24

By Nate On opening Twist the new novel by Colum McCann (author of Time Out favourite Apeirogon) I didn’t quite know what to expect; all I knew was that the plot seemed to be centred on the repairing of an underwater internet cable. To say the least, that is not a subject one often reads about. It was a pleasant surprise, then, to find in Twist a deeply introspective novel on human connection- how it forms and fails.Twist is a deeply internal novel, the events solely being viewed through the eyes of

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95bFM's Loose Reads: The Antidote by Karen Russell

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2025/03/24

Over a decade since Time Out favourite, Swamplandia!, Karen Russell’s new novel The Antidote is here. Set in 1930’s Nebraska, in the time of The Dust Bowl, Russell weaves together history and magic to tell a tale full of rich characters, stunning writing and gives context to the effects of colonisation and the climate crisis. Highly, highly recommended.Listen to Jenna’s review with Jonny, in the bFM studio below. Listen here Shop The Antidote

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95bFM's Loose Reads: Dream Count by Chimamanda Ngozi...

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2025/03/17

Told with caustic wit, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's long-awaited fourth novel, Dream Count, follows the lives and complex relationships between four Nigerian women.Fans of Americanahwill love Adichie's most recent return to fiction- a witty, funny and clever excision of womanhood and migration.Adichie explores the moulding of desire, love and friendship and the cracks of tension that emerge via the stratas of race, class and geography.Clever, poignant and deliciously readableDream Countcements Adichie

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RNZ's Nine to Noon: Perspectives by Laurent Binet

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2025/03/10

Today on Nine to Noon, Jenna was in the studio to chat to Kathryn about French author, Laurent Binet’s new novel. Perspectives is an epistolary novel that tells a playful tale of murder, art & moral panic in Renaissance Florence. Featuring real life figures such as Michelangelo, Vasari and the Medicis, this is one for the art history buffs. Listen below for the full review.BUY Perspectives

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95bFM's Loose Reads: March Book News

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2025/03/10

Jenna has so much book news, that we’ve dedicated this week’s segment to it.First, the shortlist for the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards has been announced. See the list of finalists here. The ceremony will be held on May 14th. Secondly, a preview of names have been announced for the Auckland Writers Festival, with the full programme being release this Wednesday 12th March. Kaliane Bradley, Gavin Bishop, Yael van der Wouden, Ben Macintyre and Asako Yuzuki are just the start of an amazing

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95bFM's Loose Reads: Fundamentally by Nussaibah Younis

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2025/03/03

Fundamentallyis a debut novel by peace-keeping specialist Nussaibah Younis.Younis writes about a UN peace-keeping contingent based in Iraq and tells the story through the perspective of a criminologist specializing in deradicalization programmes.A hilarious piece of auto-fictional satire, Fundamentallyskewers the saviour industrial complex and contends with the tangled politics of international relations.Told with caustic wit, Fundamentallyis a funny, highly readable story sure tohelp any reader out

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Bestsellers for February 2025

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2025/03/02

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95bFM's Loose Reads: Old Soul by Susan Barker

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2025/02/24

Jenna & Jonny are in the studio this morning talking literary horror. Old Soul is a mysterious & unsettling tale traversing many countries on the hunt for a mysterious, dangerous woman. For fans of David Mitchell, Stephen King and Mariana Enriquez, Susan Barker is the author of Time Out favourite, The Incarnations. Listen here SHOP Old Soul

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95bFM's Loose Reads: A Spring of Love by Celia Dale

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2025/02/17

First released in the 1960’s, a new Daunt Books edition of Celia Dale’s A Spring of Love has been newly republished.Esther, a 30 year old ‘spinster’, lives with her Gran and has little reprieve from her mundane routine. She soon meets & starts a courtship with Raymond, a man of artificial charm who weasels his way into her life.Reminiscent of Mary Gatskill and Shirley Jackson, A Spring of Love is a gripping and hilarious psychological thriller which explores the loneliness and desire of women

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95bFM's Loose Reads: Star Gazers by Duncan Sarkies

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2025/02/10

Abby gives you the low down onStar Gazers by Duncan Sarkies, a local read due for release this Thursday! If you're looking for a piece of fun and satirical fiction, Star Gazersis highly recommended. For fans of political intrigue, comedy and alpacas.Listen here SHOP Star Gazers

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95bFM's Loose Reads: Dear Dickhead by Virginie Despentes

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2025/02/03

Translated from French, Dear Dickhead is a epistolary tale between cancelled crime author, Oscar and aging actress, Rebecca as they talk about feminism, generational difference and addiction. Nuanced and very funny, Dear Dickhead is a great next step if you enjoyed All Fours. As Jonny says, ‘it sounds very French!’Listen here SHOP Dear Dickhead

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RNZ's Nine to Noon: Best of 2024

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2025/02/03

Today on Nine to Noon, Jenna was in the studio to chat to Kathryn about some of her favourite 2024 reads.Listen below for the full review. BUY ALL THAT WE KNOW BUY Kataraina BUY ALL FOURS

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Bestsellers for January 2025

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2025/01/29

Click on the covers to shop!TOP 5 BOOKSKID'S BOOKS View previous Bestsellers

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Nate's Releases to Watch in 2025

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2025/01/29

As hard as it is to believe, 2025 is now well and truly upon us and the time has come to move from writing best books of the year lists to most exciting upcoming books of the year ahead. Thankfully, while everyone else was trying to get as much rest as could be squeezed in over Christmas/New Year, the book/publishing world never truly stops and we’ve already got some great titles releasing soon, as well as exciting authors slated to release new books this year that are well worth keeping an eye

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95bFM's Loose Reads: Holding the Line by Barbara...

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2025/01/20

Reprinted 29 years after its original publication, Holding the Linedelves into one of the largest worker strikes in American history.Through extensive interviews with the women working gruelling manual jobs and fighting for collective rights at a huge personal cost, Kingsolver paints a portrait of some of America's historically most vulnerables workers.Bold, extensively researched and written with as much flair as her later novels, Holding the Lineilluminates a rarely explored part of history, told

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