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95bFM's Loose Reads: Will There Ever Be Another You...

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2025/11/24

Will There Ever Be Another Youis the latest by author of Priestdaddy, No-One is Talking About Thisand most importantly, Twitter's Poet Laureate of the 2010's, Patricia Lockwood.Will There Ever Be Another Youis autofiction- a free-wheeling portrayal of the physical and psychological effects of long-COVID and the resulting ego death.Experiencing amnesia and body dysphoria in the wake of her first COVID contraction, Lockwood details the slow journey to recovering her identity.What happens to a writer

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95bFM's Loose Reads: Hoods Landing by Laura Vincent

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2025/11/17

Jenna visited the 95bFM studio this morning to talk about Laura Vincent’s (Ngāti Māhanga, Ngāpuhi) debut novel, Hoods Landing. Four generations gather for Christmas, small-town gossip and tragedy, tarot cards and secrets are revealed in this funny and sharp ensemble tale. If you’re going to buy any book this Christmas - this is the one! A local author, from indie publisher Āporo Press.Listen here Shop Hoods Landing

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95bFM's Loose Reads: Shadow Ticket by Thomas Pynchon

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2025/11/10

His first novel in over a decade, Pynchon's Shadow Ticket is a swirling, heady noir diving into 1930's Milwaukee- Al Capone's been imprisoned, the Great Depression arrives with a bang, jazz rules the underground, the Western world sits on the cusp of war and a cheese heiress mysteriously disappears with (or perhaps without) her jazz musician lover. Hick McTaggart, a private investigator running from problems of his own, is tasked with finding the heiress and returning her to the Airmont. Tracking

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95bFM's Loose Reads: Moderation by Elaine Castillo

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2025/11/03

Jenna joined Milly & Rosetta in the studio to talk about Elaine Castillo’s Moderation. You may have caught Elaine at the Auckland Writer’s Festival in 2019. Her new novel follows Girlie, a Filipnx American social media moderator in a Vegas-based, VR tech empire, Austen-esque romance genre bending novel. This is whip smart, entertaining and timely - for fans of Kaliane Bradley’s The Ministry of Time. Listen here Shop Moderation

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Bestsellers for October 2025

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2025/11/01

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

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95bFM's Loose Reads: The City Changes Its Face by...

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2025/10/22

Nate went into BFM to talk about Eimear McBride’s new novel, The City Changes Its Face. Weird, wonderful and full of emotional heft- a perfect portrait of a faltering romantic relationship.Listen to the full review below with Milly & Rosetta.Shop The city changes its face Listen here

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95bFM's Loose Reads: Ordinary Saints by Niamh Ni...

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2025/10/13

This morning, Jenna chatted to Rosetta & Milly about the debut novel, Ordinary Saints by Niamh Ni Mhaoileoin.This is one for the Irish Catholics, it’s a story that delves into grief, family, faith & queer identity with a light touch. Ni Mhaoileoin was shortlisted for the Women’s Prize Discoveries shortlist and the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize. Listen below!Listen here Shop Ordinary Saints

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RNZ's Nine to Noon: The Loneliness of Sonia & Sunny...

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2025/10/07

Today, on RNZ’s Nine to Noon book review, Jenna talked about Kiran Desai’s Booker shortlisted, The Loneliness of Sonia & Sunny.This is an epic & full tale of Sonia & Sunny, their families, East & West, India & America, love & loneliness. Listen to Jenna’s review with Kathryn below. BUY Sonia & Sunny

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95bFM's Loose Reads: The Four Spent the Day Together...

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2025/10/07

Chris Kraus, author of I Love Dick, is back with ‘reinvention of the true-crime novel’ a book that uses both auto-fiction and fiction to explore class and addiction in America.Suri visited the studio, listen to her to chat to Rosetta & Milly below. Listen here SHOP Four Spent the Day Together

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Bestsellers for September 2025

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2025/09/30

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

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95bFM's Loose Reads: 2025 Booker Shortlist & NZ...

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2025/09/29

Jenna visited the 95bFM studio this morning to delve into the Booker shortlist.Flesh by David SzalayThe Land in Winter by Andrew MillerThe Rest of Our Lives by Ben MarkovitsAudition by Katie KitamuraThe Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran DesaiFlashlight by Susan ChoiThen, we chat about our upcoming activities for NZ Bookshop Day, Saturday 11th October. Listen here NZ Bookshop Day at Time Out

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95bFM's Loose Reads: House of Day, House of Night by...

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2025/09/22

This morning, Suri reviewed the newest book by one of Time Out’s favourite authors and the winner of both the Nobel Prize in Literature and International Booker Prize, Olga Tokarczuk.House of Day, House of Night delves into life onto a remote Polish village. A fragmented mosiac of fiction, mythology & collective consicousness. This book is in a constant diagloue, asking the question of how we and our dreams are shaped by the natural world. Suri called into the studio this morning to chat to

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RNZ's Nine to Noon: Seascraper by Benjamin Wood

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2025/09/15

Jenna called into the RNZ studio to talk about Booker longlisted, Seascraper, by Benjamin Wood. Set in a seaside town, in 1960’s England, a teenage shrimp scraper dreams of a life outside of his grueling work. When a film director comes to town, his world suddenly opens up. This is a tightly written narrative. Immersive, insular, timeless modern classic that explores asperation vs. duty. A hot contender for the Booker shortlist!BUY Seascraper

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95bFM's Loose Reads: Speaking my Language Te Kōrero o...

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2025/09/15

I kōrero a Jenna rātou ko Milly, Ko Rosetta i a Te Kōrero o Tōku Reo nā Mike McRoberts mō Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori. Whakaronga mai! Listen here Hokona Te Kōrero o Tōku Reo

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95bFM's Loose Reads: Mother Mary Comes to Me by...

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2025/09/08

Nate visits 95bFM for his first ever radio review! Today, he brings in the brand new release, Mother Mary Comes to Me by Booker Prize winning author, Arundhati Roy.A memoir exploring mother/daughter dynamics, Indian politics and what is likely to be a foundation for the storyline of The God of Small Things, this book will be one of Nate’s favourite reads of the year. Listen to the full review below with Milly & Rosetta. Listen here Shop

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Bestsellers for August 2025

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2025/09/01

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

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95bFM's Loose Reads: Vera, or Faith by Gary Shteyngart

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2025/09/01

For our first day of spring, Jenna brought Gary Shteyngart’s sixth novel, Vera, or Faith into the studio.A story of an anxious ten year old trying to keep it together as her family, friend and school life are in disarray. Set in a not-too distant future America; recognisable advances in AI and political control also affect Vera’s outer life.Shteyngart wrote this book in just two months. It’s charmingly funny, sad and is a clear comment on the American Dream. Listen to the full review below with

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95bFM's Loose Reads: Endling by Maria Reva

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2025/08/26

The future had been a luxury, the future didn’t exist anymore.This Booker longlisted first novel of Ukrainian-Canadian writer, Maria Reva, is a 2025 favourite of the Time Out team. What starts as a comical tale of snail conservation with a romance industry kidnapping plot, the linear narrative is upended with Russa’s invasion into Ukraine. Reva inserts herself into the narrative, crumbling the fourth wall, to question identity, hope and the role of creativity at a time of war. Endling is filled with

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95bFM's Loose Reads: The Benefactors by Wendy Erskine

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2025/08/22

On this week’s Loose Reads, Jenna delves into Wendy Erskine’s first novel, The Benefactors. An assault rocks four Belfast families, where the class & privilege of the three perpetrators’ mothers collide with the street smarts of the victim’s family. Richly drawn & nuanced characters with bitingly funny dialogue and a surprising amount of heart, The Benefactors is a book about leveraging the power you have. Listen to the full review below with Milly & Rosetta.

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95bFM's Loose Reads: Among Friends by Hal Ebbott

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2025/08/11

America and it's writers have a long-time fascination with psychoanalysis. From Joan Didion's hard-nosed accounts of grief (The Year of Magical Thinking; Blue Nights)to Toni Morrison's exceptional exploration of the psychological toll of motherhood under oppression (Beloved) and post-9/11 authors like Franzen and Safran-Foer elucidating marriage and family life in a new millenia, the impacts of institutional changes on relationships and psychology have underpinned the American canon.Hal

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