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Bestsellers for December 2024

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2025/01/15

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95bFM's Loose Reads: Some Strange Music Draws Me In...

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2025/01/13

Named after Patti Smith’s Dancing Barefoot, Some Strange Music Draws Me In is both a visceral 1980’s, small town coming of age story and a modern day exploration of gender, generation differences, family & relationships. Fun fact: As well as being an author, Griffin Hansbury is a psychoanalyst. This shot up to being one of Jenna’s favourite books of 2024. Listen below to Jenna & Jonny reunite in the studio for 2025. Listen here SHOP

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95bFM's Loose Reads: Jenna's Christmas Agony Aunt...

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2024/12/16

Jenna called into the studio for Time Out’s last session for the year! Listeners texted in for book advice, including sci-fi for teens, Egyptology for an 8 year old and non-mainstream reads for a dude. Jonny needs a summer read too, plus some advice on 2024 cookbooks. Time Out is open from 9am-9pm to help with all your Christmas needs. Gift wrapping included. Listen below! Listen here SHOP at TIme Out

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95bFM's Loose Reads: Suri's Christmas picks & Agony...

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2024/12/09

Suri & Jonny are in the studio with a HEAP of Christmas recommendations. Listen in for some agony aunt answers - including advice on science fiction, graphic novels and self help. Then, Suri picks out some of her top gift picks, including: Time of the Child by Niall WilliamsThe Garden of Time by Olivia Laing James by Percival Everett The Gavin Bishop Treasury What I Ate by Stanley TucciĀtūa Wāhine by Hana Tapiata Click the link below for audio. Listen

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95bFM's Loose Reads: Juice by Tim Winton

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2024/12/02

Jenna & Jonny talk Juice, the new dystopion novel by Australian living legend, Tim Winton. This pacy novel set in the North Western Australian desert, imagines a world of climate crisis but underpins the fear with the hope of humanity. Listen to the full review below. Listen here SHOP JUICE

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Bestsellers for November 2024

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2024/11/30

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RNZ's Nine to Noon: Gliff by Ali Smith

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2024/11/28

Jenna chatted to Nine to Noon’s Kathryn Ryan, about Ali Smith’s new dystopian novel, Gliff. The companion novel, Glyph, will be released in 2025.Listen below!Listen here SHOP Gliff

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95bFM's Loose Reads: The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates

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2024/11/25

Author of the National Book award-winning title Between the World and Me, Ta Nehisi-Coates returns to non-fiction with The Message. In this concise but powerful title, Nehisi-Coates explores the human impulse to mythologise the world around us.Part travelogue, part history, Ta Nehisi-Coates moves between Senegal, South Carolina and Palestine to reveal the connective tissues that allowed for the exploitation of certain ethnicities in all three countries. Coates explores how racism and colonialism are

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95bFM's Loose Reads: Orbital by Samantha Harvey

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2024/11/18

Jenna dives into the newly minted 2024 Booker winner, Orbital, by Samantha Harvey. Orbital is due back in stock in December - order below!Listen to Jenna’s review with Jonny below, as well as some big gig chat from the weekend. Listen here ORDER Orbital

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95bFM's Loose Reads: Blue Ruin by Hari Kunzru

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2024/11/12

The third title in Hari Kunzru’s Colours trilogy, Blue Ruin is a COVID-era novel taking aim at the art world. The novel follows Jay, a former artist whose descent from rising young art star to middle-aged manual labourer leaves his body and heart in disrepair. Crossing paths with his former lover Alice and her husband Rob (Jay’s art-school rival and a benefactor of wealthy corporate philanthropists), Jay’s life begins to take new shape.Blue Ruin shifts between the 1990's and current day, covering

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Author Interview: Ali Smith

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2024/11/07

Hollie spoke to Ali Smith ahead of the publication of her new novel, Gliff. Your new

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95bFM's Loose Reads: The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden

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2024/11/03

Jenna visited the studio this morning to give a rundown on the upcoming announcement of the 2024 Booker Prize (November 13th NZD time and talk about the deut Dutch shortlistee, The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden.Set in the 1960’s, in a house in a small Dutch village, Isabel’s rigid routine is upended when her brother’s new girlfriend comes to stay for the summer. However, not is all what it seems.The less you know about this book, the better! Clcik the link below to listen to Jenna and Jonny’s

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Bestsellers for October 2024

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2024/10/31

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95bFM's Loose Reads: Delirious by Damien Wilkins

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2024/10/21

Jenna phoned from the shop floor to talk about Wellington author Damien Wilkins’ new book, Delirious. As Mary and Pete prepare to move out of their home and into a retirement village, the past comes back to visit. A deceptively simple read that is masterly crafted about family, memory and grief. Listen to Jenna & Jonny at the link below. Listen here Shop Delirious

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95bFM's Loose Reads: A Sunny Place for Shady People...

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2024/10/14

The queen of South American horror fiction is back with a new collection of short stories for the spooky season! From hauntings, cults, surgical disasters and beyond, Mariana Enriquez’s new book ‘A Sunny Place for Shady People’ explores the human-made violence and terror inflicted in unique ways onto each of her characters. From body horror, ghosts and psychological torture, this short story collection has something to sate the appetite of all fans of horror.Pre-order now to nab your copy just in

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The breath out: Kataraina by Becky Manawatu, reviewed...

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2024/10/07

Jenna responds to Kataraina, the sequel to Becky Manawatu’s award-winning first novelAuē, for The Spinoff: Read Here

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95bFM's Loose Reads: Kataraina by Becky Manawatu

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2024/10/06

Jenna was back in the bFM studio this morning after being overseas. First, she delves a little into her booky trip to the UK. Then, talks about the highly anticipated sequel to Auē, Kataraina. Listen to the spoiler free chat with Jonny below, you can also read her spoiler-filled review on The Spinoff here.Finally, Jenna also chats about Aotearoa NZ Bookshop Day, which is this Saturday 12th October. Listen here Shop Kataraina

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‘I am a proud reader of some objectively terrible...

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2024/10/03

Our Abby is the latest entry to The Spinoff’s Bookseller’s Confessional! Read about her highs and lows of bookselling, as well as her absolute favourite (and least

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Bestsellers for September 2024

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2024/10/02

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95bFM's Loose Reads: The Empusium by Olga Tokarczuk

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2024/09/30

Winner of the 2018 International Booker Prize and 2018 Nobel Prize for literature, Olga Tokarczuk returns to fiction with a heady, atmospheric 'health resort horror story'.Written 100 years after the publication of The Magic Mountain, The Empusiumis written both as a response and a feminist retelling of Thomas Mann's canonicalwork.We follow MiczyslawWojnik's arrival at a sanatorium set in the lush and dense mountainous forests of Germany, where the alpine air is touted as an antidote to all its

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