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95bFM's Loose Reads: Mother Mary Comes to Me by Arundhati Roy
95bFM's Loose Reads, Reviews, Nate
95bFM's Loose Reads: Mother Mary Comes to Me by Arundhati Roy
95bFM's Loose Reads, Reviews, Nate
95bFM's Loose Reads, Reviews, Nate
Bestsellers for August 2025
Bestsellers, Round-ups
Bestsellers for August 2025
Bestsellers, Round-ups
Bestsellers, Round-ups
95bFM's Loose Reads: Vera, or Faith by Gary Shteyngart
95bFM's Loose Reads, Jenna, Reviews
95bFM's Loose Reads: Vera, or Faith by Gary Shteyngart
95bFM's Loose Reads, Jenna, Reviews
95bFM's Loose Reads, Jenna, Reviews
95bFM's Loose Reads: Endling by Maria Reva
95bFM's Loose Reads, Reviews, Suri
95bFM's Loose Reads: Endling by Maria Reva
95bFM's Loose Reads, Reviews, Suri
95bFM's Loose Reads, Reviews, Suri
95bFM's Loose Reads: The Benefactors by Wendy Erskine
95bFM's Loose Reads, Jenna, Reviews
95bFM's Loose Reads: The Benefactors by Wendy Erskine
95bFM's Loose Reads, Jenna, Reviews
95bFM's Loose Reads, Jenna, Reviews
95bFM's Loose Reads: Among Friends by Hal Ebbott
95bFM's Loose Reads, Reviews, Suri
95bFM's Loose Reads: Among Friends by Hal Ebbott
95bFM's Loose Reads, Reviews, Suri
95bFM's Loose Reads, Reviews, Suri
95bFM's Loose Reads: Objects of Desire by Neil Blackmore
95bFM's Loose Reads, Jenna, Reviews
95bFM's Loose Reads: Objects of Desire by Neil Blackmore
95bFM's Loose Reads, Jenna, Reviews
95bFM's Loose Reads, Jenna, Reviews
Bestsellers for July 2025
Bestsellers, Round-ups
Bestsellers for July 2025
Bestsellers, Round-ups
Bestsellers, Round-ups
95bFM's Loose Reads: Parallel Lines by Edward St Aubyn
95bFM's Loose Reads, Reviews, Suri
95bFM's Loose Reads: Parallel Lines by Edward St Aubyn
95bFM's Loose Reads, Reviews, Suri
95bFM's Loose Reads, Reviews, Suri
95bFM's Loose Reads: Flashlight by Susan Choi
95bFM's Loose Reads, Jenna, Reviews
95bFM's Loose Reads: Flashlight by Susan Choi
95bFM's Loose Reads, Jenna, Reviews
95bFM's Loose Reads, Jenna, Reviews
RNZ's Nine to Noon: Endling by Maria Reva
Jenna, RNZ
RNZ's Nine to Noon: Endling by Maria Reva
Jenna, RNZ
Jenna, RNZ
95bFM's Loose Reads: Memories of a Catholic Girlhood by Mary McCarthy
95bFM's Loose Reads, Reviews, Suri
95bFM's Loose Reads: Memories of a Catholic Girlhood by Mary McCarthy
95bFM's Loose Reads, Reviews, Suri
95bFM's Loose Reads, Reviews, Suri
95bFM's Loose Reads: Sunstruck by William Rayfet Hunter
95bFM's Loose Reads, Jenna, Reviews
95bFM's Loose Reads: Sunstruck by William Rayfet Hunter
95bFM's Loose Reads, Jenna, Reviews
95bFM's Loose Reads, Jenna, Reviews
Bestsellers for June 2025
Bestsellers, Round-ups
Bestsellers for June 2025
Bestsellers, Round-ups
Bestsellers, Round-ups
95bFM's Loose Reads: Things in Nature Merely Grow by Yiyun Li
95bFM's Loose Reads, Reviews, Suri
95bFM's Loose Reads: Things in Nature Merely Grow by Yiyun Li
95bFM's Loose Reads, Reviews, Suri
95bFM's Loose Reads, Reviews, Suri
95bFM's Loose Reads: We Do Not Part by Han Kang
95bFM's Loose Reads, Jenna, Reviews
95bFM's Loose Reads: We Do Not Part by Han Kang
95bFM's Loose Reads, Jenna, Reviews
95bFM's Loose Reads, Jenna, Reviews
95bFM's Loose Reads: There are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak
95bFM's Loose Reads, Reviews, Suri
95bFM's Loose Reads: There are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak
95bFM's Loose Reads, Reviews, Suri
95bFM's Loose Reads, Reviews, Suri
95bFM's Loose Reads: On the Calculation of Volume I & II by Solvej Balle
95bFM's Loose Reads, Jenna, Reviews
95bFM's Loose Reads: On the Calculation of Volume I & II by Solvej Balle
95bFM's Loose Reads, Jenna, Reviews
95bFM's Loose Reads, Jenna, Reviews
Bestsellers for May 2025
Bestsellers, Round-ups
Bestsellers for May 2025
Bestsellers, Round-ups
Bestsellers, Round-ups
RNZ's Nine to Noon: Gabriele by Anne and Claire Berest
Jenna, RNZ
RNZ's Nine to Noon: Gabriele by Anne and Claire Berest
Jenna, RNZ
Jenna, RNZ
95bFM's Loose Reads: This Compulsion in Us by Tina Makereti
95bFM's Loose Reads, Jenna, Reviews
95bFM's Loose Reads: This Compulsion in Us by Tina Makereti
95bFM's Loose Reads, Jenna, Reviews
95bFM's Loose Reads, Jenna, Reviews
95bFM's Loose Reads: Auckland Writers Festival Recap
95bFM's Loose Reads, Reviews, Suri
95bFM's Loose Reads: Auckland Writers Festival Recap
95bFM's Loose Reads, Reviews, Suri
95bFM's Loose Reads, Reviews, Suri
95bFM's Loose Reads: The Book of Guilt by Catherine Chidgey
95bFM's Loose Reads, Jenna, Reviews
95bFM's Loose Reads: The Book of Guilt by Catherine Chidgey
95bFM's Loose Reads, Jenna, Reviews
95bFM's Loose Reads, Jenna, Reviews
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95bFM's Loose Reads, Reviews, Suri
95bFM's Loose Reads: 1985 by Dominic Hoey
95bFM's Loose Reads, Reviews, Suri
95bFM's Loose Reads, Reviews, Suri
Bestsellers for April 2025
Bestsellers, Round-ups
Bestsellers for April 2025
Bestsellers, Round-ups
Bestsellers, Round-ups
Author Interview: Duncan Sarkies
Author Interviews, Abby
Author Interview: Duncan Sarkies
Author Interviews, Abby
Author Interviews, Abby
95bFM's Loose Reads: When the Going Was Good by Graydon Carter
95bFM's Loose Reads, Reviews, George
95bFM's Loose Reads: When the Going Was Good by Graydon Carter
95bFM's Loose Reads, Reviews, George
95bFM's Loose Reads, Reviews, George
95bFM's Loose Reads: Stag Dance by Torrey Peters
95bFM's Loose Reads, Reviews, Suri
95bFM's Loose Reads: Stag Dance by Torrey Peters
95bFM's Loose Reads, Reviews, Suri
95bFM's Loose Reads, Reviews, Suri
95bFM's Loose Reads: Perfection by Vincenzo Latronico
95bFM's Loose Reads, Jenna, Reviews
95bFM's Loose Reads: Perfection by Vincenzo Latronico
95bFM's Loose Reads, Jenna, Reviews
95bFM's Loose Reads, Jenna, Reviews
Bestsellers for March 2025
Bestsellers, Round-ups
Bestsellers for March 2025
Bestsellers, Round-ups
Bestsellers, Round-ups
 
 
A tērā wiki, Ko te Wiki o Te Reo Māori! Listen in to @95bfm_breakfast on Monday, after the 9am news, to listen to Jenna’s review of Mike McRobert’s Speaking My Language Te Kōrero I Tōku Reo.
Time Out’s September Staff Picks. 📚📚📚
Announcing the first in series of Bookshop Day activites, we are again collaborating with our local bookshop friends for the Auckland Bookshop Tour. Visit at least two stores and collect a stamp with your purchase at each store (no minimum spend).
Announcing the first in series of Bookshop Day activites, we are again collaborating with our local bookshop friends for the Auckland Bookshop Tour. Visit at least two stores and collect a stamp with your purchase at each store (no minimum spend). Every additional stamp gives you another entry into our grand prize draw. Leave your collected stamps with the last store you visit on Aotearoa NZ Bookshop Day. Bookshop Day started in Aotearoa 10 years ago, in 2015, and is run by @booksellersnz to encourage book lovers, like you, to celebrate your local bookshop. Pick up your map in-store!
Nate visits @95bfm_breakfast 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
Nate visits @95bfm_breakfast 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 with Milly & Rosetta at the link in the bio.
Some highlights from our brand new Spring Fling newsletter. 🌱🌼🌸📚 Hit the link in bio to read our picks, check out upcoming events, enter two competitions & much more.
Some highlights from our brand new Spring Fling newsletter. 🌱🌼🌸📚 Hit the link in bio to read our picks, check out upcoming events, enter two competitions & much more.
It’s Virgo season! Happy birthday to Nate (22) and Jenna (40)! 💐🎂🍾
It’s Virgo season! Happy birthday to Nate (22) and Jenna (40)! 💐🎂🍾
Happy Spring! 🌱 Here are our bestsellers for August. Gosh, our customers have been reading well!
Happy Spring! 🌱 Here are our bestsellers for August. Gosh, our customers have been reading well!
On Monday’s @95bfm_breakfast Loose Reads, Jenna will chatting about Gary Shteyngart’s Vera, or Faith. Tune in after the 9am news. 📻📚
Nate has a backlist pick from the kids’ room today. “It says a lot about these books that my ex listened to the audiobook almost every night to get to sleep and I still never tired of it. I think we often underestimate child readers, th
Nate has a backlist pick from the kids’ room today. “It says a lot about these books that my ex listened to the audiobook almost every night to get to sleep and I still never tired of it. I think we often underestimate child readers, thinking that their books should be sanitised. Kids are capable of so much more than we often give them credit for - which is something the best children’s authors recognise. Pullman’s series is exciting and full of wonder; daemons, talking polar bears who wear armour, portals between worlds and an adventuring ballooner. They are books to come back to over and over again (I’d know) and a fitting example that authors writing for children have just as much talent as those writing for adults- I’d put these books up proudly in the company of the accepted classics. I loved them as a kid and I still love them now. With these stories Pullman achieved something incredibly special.”
On today’s @95bfm_breakfast Loose Reads, Suri will be reviewing @thebookerprizes longlisted, Endling by Maria Reva. Tune in after the 9am news. 🐌 🐌 🐌
A tērā wiki, Ko te Wiki o Te Reo Māori! Listen in to @95bfm_breakfast on Monday, after the 9am news, to listen to Jenna’s review of Mike McRobert’s Speaking My Language Te Kōrero I Tōku Reo.
Time Out’s September Staff Picks. 📚📚📚
Announcing the first in series of Bookshop Day activites, we are again collaborating with our local bookshop friends for the Auckland Bookshop Tour. Visit at least two stores and collect a stamp with your purchase at each store (no minimum spend). Nate visits @95bfm_breakfast 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 Some highlights from our brand new Spring Fling newsletter. 🌱🌼🌸📚 Hit the link in bio to read our picks, check out upcoming events, enter two competitions & much more. It’s Virgo season! Happy birthday to Nate (22) and Jenna (40)! 💐🎂🍾 Happy Spring! 🌱 Here are our bestsellers for August. Gosh, our customers have been reading well!
On Monday’s @95bfm_breakfast Loose Reads, Jenna will chatting about Gary Shteyngart’s Vera, or Faith. Tune in after the 9am news. 📻📚
Nate has a backlist pick from the kids’ room today. “It says a lot about these books that my ex listened to the audiobook almost every night to get to sleep and I still never tired of it. I think we often underestimate child readers, th
On today’s @95bfm_breakfast Loose Reads, Suri will be reviewing @thebookerprizes longlisted, Endling by Maria Reva. Tune in after the 9am news. 🐌 🐌 🐌

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