Renee recommends fiction titles with a wintry theme and offers advice on using large print options for eBooks.
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Little Blog of Large Print: Featuring Fantasy!
Renee explores fantasy titles in large print.
Little Blog of Large Print: WORD Christchurch 2019
WORD Christchurch is back for its Autumn Season! You can treat yourself with some of the amazing author talks lined up for this mini-festival which runs from 8 to 25 May 2019. You can buy tickets to individual events, if there's a particular author or talk you're interested in, or you can splurge on an Autumn…
Shelf life — Review of The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
One library. Infinite lives. Ever wondered what might've been if you'd just stuck with it, said yes to that date, that job, that adventure?
The Legends of the Sarimanok
Find out more about The Legends of the Sarimanok and do some fun activities.
The Testaments: Best read of the year!
As well as co-winning the 2019 Booker Prize with Bernadine Evaristo, Margaret Atwood has been nominated in two categories for the Good Reads' Best Reads this year; in Fiction for The Testaments, and in Graphic Novels for The Handmaid's Tale. The Testaments The sequel to The Handmaid's Tale was worth the wait. It's compelling, thrilling…
KidsFest 2018
KidsFest is full of winter holiday fun for kids in Christchurch and Canterbury. It runs from 7 to 21 July. KidsFest is always popular and many events book out quickly, so have a look and secure your spot! Tickets are on sale now! See KidsFest events at Christchurch City Libraries Browse the KidsFest website for…
Joyce Carol Oates: The Word Master
The Doll Master is the latest offering from Joyce Carol Oates (aged 79!). And she's as fresh as ever. The Doll-master and Other Tales of Terror Highly recommended by Gillian Flynn, The Doll Master is a riveting collection of thrillingly sinister stories from the dark side of life. All is not as it appears. Each protagonist…
Courage, love and sacrifice: Nancy Wake in fact and fiction
Hong looks at movies and books, both fictional and factual, about Nancy Wake, a New Zealand-born and Australia-raised heroine who helped with the French Resistance in WWII.
The Boat Runner
When you read Devin Murphy's immersive coming of age novel The Boat Runner, you are carried away into a world where doing the morally right thing no longer seems so straight forward. Devin Murphy spent eight years working on this debut novel, inspired by his own and his wife's family history. He draws on the…
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