Record Store Day is on this Saturday 21 April. It is an annual international event designed to celebrate the record store as a community. For more info, read Russell Brown's Friday Music post The Shopping news and What's happening for Record Store Day across NZ, this Saturday? Peter McLennan on Dub dot dash. Here is our compilation…
Murder in the Library! A Post Mortem
A good crowd came in from the cold on Wednesday night to hear the who - and how - dunnits of the world of crime fiction writing. The Ngaio Marsh Awards in association with the New Zealand Book Council hosted a panel discussion with three highly successful local authors, all of whom are in the…
Love, loss, and Las Vegas glitter: All the beautiful girls
Fresh out of the box this week is All the Beautiful Girls. This great story is the second novel from Elizabeth J. Church, author of The Atomic Weight of Love. Lily Dekker has had a difficult start to life. Wrenched from idyllic surroundings by a cataclysmic car crash, her family "dissolve(d) like sugar in iced tea". She…
Celebrate International Women’s Day with Stephen King’s Sleeping Beauties
Stephen and Owen King have gender issues. Sleeping Beauties Dooling is a place where people live on a knife edge; work hard, drink hard. Women around the world bear the brunt of this in their daily lives. Some have gone to prison for fighting back. Tiffany lives in a trailer at the edge of a forest…
Inside the mind of a post-apocalyptic dog
At first I wondered how far a story from the point of view of a swearing cockney dog could go. At least across post-apocalyptic London. The Last Dog on Earth This tale is mostly from the point of view of Lineker the dog, but alternates between him and the journal of his cripplingly shy owner, Reginald Hardy. Linekker…
Two years gone: Celebrate David Bowie
Can you believe it's been two years since David Bowie passed away? Bowie was the king of media in many forms. A lot has been published since he died that genuinely and tastefully celebrates his life and influence on fashion, music and freedom of the spirit. Here is just a taste: Bowie This book is by…
It’s Margaret Mahy Playground’s 2nd Birthday!
The Margaret Mahy Family Playground opened on 22 December 2015. Three mornings a week I bike past it, on the corner of Manchester and Armagh Streets. The Park was once part of the Elsie Locke Playground, while the new expanded area was named after Margaret Mahy, one of Canterbury's most-loved authors. Part of the Government's Recovery Plan following…
Mona Anderson’s tale of High Country life
A River Rules My Life has been re-released! A River Rules My Life Originally published in 1963, Mona Anderson's unique perspective of a woman's experience on a South Island farm brings to life the High Country of days gone by. Deep in the Rolleston Ranges, in the Main Divide of the Southern Alps, Mount Algidus Station is isolated between…
Fiona’s Christmas picks from the new book box
Looking for holiday reading? There are some wonderful books in our New Titles list. Limit This great science fiction novel by Frank Schatzing is the second part of the story, begun in Limit The Chinese and Americans are competing for helium-3, an element to solve the World's energy crisis... The Beginning of the World in…
International Volunteer Day: 5 December 2017
It's International Volunteer Day today! Volunteering is a rewarding way to make connections in your community. It's a great way to make friends, professional relationships, to do something interesting and challenging with your spare time. Often volunteering leads to employment. After finishing uni at Massey University, I worked as a volunteer. At Te Manawa, (The…
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