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Wednesday 6 March 2024
Books of Summer
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I had intended to do an end-of-2023 wrap of the books I read and went so far as to run my eye over them all on Goodreads and start to extrac...
Saturday 1 April 2023
Alan Garner, The Owl Service
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I wonder if I would've loved The Owl Service the way I just have, if I hadn't (a) only just read it now, as a 43 year-old and (b) ...
Thursday 19 January 2023
Alan Garner, Treacle Walker
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In her extended essay Why You Should Read Children's Books, Even Though You Are So Old and Wise , Katherine Rundell writes: When you rea...
Monday 16 January 2023
Catherine Chidgey, The Axeman's Carnival
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Is The Axeman's Carnival the great New Zealand novel? I know it's not a question we ask but for me - Pākehā New Zealand, child and ...
Wednesday 11 January 2023
Elizabeth Strout, Oh William!
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I would like to say a few things about my first husband, William. William has lately been through some very sad events - many of us have - ...
Tuesday 3 January 2023
Zana Fraillon and Bren MacDibble, The Raven's Song
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We started up, all the ordinary evening songs for putting babies to sleep, for farewelling, for soothing broke-hearted people - all the ones...
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