August 2024

Haere mai, welcome to our Audiobooks newsletter. Pop on your headphones - there's plenty of new fiction and non-fiction to listen to.

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New audiobooks

Have a listen to the freshest audiobooks from Libby and BorrowBox.

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WORD Christchurch Festival 2024

Revisit WORD Christchurch 2024 - read our event reports, and find works by WORD writers in our collection.

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WORD Christchurch writers

Tune into audiobooks read by authors coming to the WORD Christchurch Festival - then hear them in person!

Hine Toa: A story of bravery by Ngāhuia te Awekōtuku

I listened to the audiobook in which Ngāhuia relates her story herself. I was spellbound - it's sad, funny, real as real. Ngāhuia shares everything, even the stuff that hurts.

Iconic scholar and activist Ngāhuia te Awekōtuku (Te Arawa, Tūhoe, Ngāpuhi, Waikato) has been a trailblazing voice in women’s, queer, and Māori liberation movements. She joins Tina Makereti in conversation on Friday 30 August, 2.30pm.

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BBQ Economics: How money works and why it matters by Liam Dann

This was great - interesting, incisive, and a lot of information but shared in the manner of a friendly knowledgeable mate at a bbq.

Liam Dann will chew the financial fat with RNZ's Katy Gosset at BBQ Economics Sunday 1 September 4.30pm

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The Survivors: Stories of Death and Desperation by Steve Braunias

In The Survivors, award-winning true-crime writer Steve Braunias retells 12 mysteries of human nature – unusual stories of how people choose to survive their own lives, and their decisions, desires, impulses ... and failings.

Listen to Steve in conversation with Philip Matthews of The Press in True Stories of Death and Desperation Friday 30 August 12.30pm

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uLibrary Bookclubs

Talking Books Book Club

Join the Talking Books Book Club from uLibrary. November's title is The Bookseller at the end of the World by Ruth Shaw.

Bookworms Book Club

Join Bookworms Book Club, uLibrary's kids audio bookclub. The title for November is Between Sea and Sky by Nicola Penfold