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95bFM's Loose Reads: The City Changes Its Face by Eimear McBride
95bFM's Loose Reads, Reviews, Nate
95bFM's Loose Reads: The City Changes Its Face by Eimear McBride
95bFM's Loose Reads, Reviews, Nate
95bFM's Loose Reads, Reviews, Nate
95bFM's Loose Reads: Ordinary Saints by Niamh Ni Mhaoileoin
95bFM's Loose Reads, Jenna, Reviews
95bFM's Loose Reads: Ordinary Saints by Niamh Ni Mhaoileoin
95bFM's Loose Reads, Jenna, Reviews
95bFM's Loose Reads, Jenna, Reviews
RNZ's Nine to Noon: The Loneliness of Sonia & Sunny by Kiran Desai
Jenna, RNZ
RNZ's Nine to Noon: The Loneliness of Sonia & Sunny by Kiran Desai
Jenna, RNZ
Jenna, RNZ
95bFM's Loose Reads: The Four Spent the Day Together by Chris Kraus
95bFM's Loose Reads, Reviews, Suri
95bFM's Loose Reads: The Four Spent the Day Together by Chris Kraus
95bFM's Loose Reads, Reviews, Suri
95bFM's Loose Reads, Reviews, Suri
Bestsellers for September 2025
Bestsellers, Round-ups
Bestsellers for September 2025
Bestsellers, Round-ups
Bestsellers, Round-ups
95bFM's Loose Reads: 2025 Booker Shortlist & NZ Bookshop Day
95bFM's Loose Reads, Jenna, Reviews
95bFM's Loose Reads: 2025 Booker Shortlist & NZ Bookshop Day
95bFM's Loose Reads, Jenna, Reviews
95bFM's Loose Reads, Jenna, Reviews
95bFM's Loose Reads: House of Day, House of Night by Olga Tokarczuk
95bFM's Loose Reads, Reviews, Suri
95bFM's Loose Reads: House of Day, House of Night by Olga Tokarczuk
95bFM's Loose Reads, Reviews, Suri
95bFM's Loose Reads, Reviews, Suri
RNZ's Nine to Noon: Seascraper by Benjamin Wood
Jenna, RNZ
RNZ's Nine to Noon: Seascraper by Benjamin Wood
Jenna, RNZ
Jenna, RNZ
95bFM's Loose Reads: Speaking my Language Te Kōrero o Tōku Reo by Mike McRoberts
95bFM's Loose Reads, Jenna, Reviews
95bFM's Loose Reads: Speaking my Language Te Kōrero o Tōku Reo by Mike McRoberts
95bFM's Loose Reads, Jenna, Reviews
95bFM's Loose Reads, Jenna, Reviews
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
 
 
You're invited to join Harry Ricketts & Steve Braunias in conversation in our upstairs room, on Friday 7th November. What is happiness in a suddenly unfamiliar world? What happens to us once the old connections spark and disappear? Harry write
You're invited to join Harry Ricketts & Steve Braunias in conversation in our upstairs room, on Friday 7th November. What is happiness in a suddenly unfamiliar world? What happens to us once the old connections spark and disappear? Harry writes of youth, hope, books and writers, and the friendships through which we come to know ourselves new poetry book, Bonfires on the Ice. RSVP to books@timeout.co.nz
We’re here for your book needs this Labour Day. Open Monday 27th October 10am - 6pm. 🌞🌸📚
We’re here for your book needs this Labour Day. Open Monday 27th October 10am - 6pm. 🌞🌸📚
He came! He hugged! He signed! Thank you so much for visiting, @trentdaltonauthor & @harpercollinsnz. Signed copies of Gravity Let Me Go are on the shelf now. 💚💙💚💙
He came! He hugged! He signed! Thank you so much for visiting, @trentdaltonauthor & @harpercollinsnz. Signed copies of Gravity Let Me Go are on the shelf now. 💚💙💚💙
Happy happy birthday to our Wendy! “A book icon!” says @trentdaltonauthor. 🌸🌼🪻📚
Happy happy birthday to our Wendy! “A book icon!” says @trentdaltonauthor. 🌸🌼🪻📚
We have signed copies of MANA by @tame_iti on the shelf now. Kua hōnore ki tūtaki ki a koe, e rangatira. ❤️🤍🖤
We have signed copies of MANA by @tame_iti on the shelf now. Kua hōnore ki tūtaki ki a koe, e rangatira. ❤️🤍🖤
Time Out’s October Staff Picks. 📚📚📚
Tomorrow! Saturday 11th October! It’s @booksellersnz Bookshop Day! Come celebrate with us! Jenna popped in to see @jessemulligannz on Afternoons at @radionewzealand to chat what’s happening around the motu.
Tomorrow! Saturday 11th October! It’s @booksellersnz Bookshop Day! Come celebrate with us! Jenna popped in to see @jessemulligannz on Afternoons at @radionewzealand to chat what’s happening around the motu.
Our September bestsellers list is stacked high with new releases, apart from 2024’s The Safekeep which just keeps flying out the door. 📚📚📚
Our September bestsellers list is stacked high with new releases, apart from 2024’s The Safekeep which just keeps flying out the door. 📚📚📚
We've done it! The @thebookerprizes longlist has been read. 💪 In anticipation of tomorrow morning's shortlist announcement, here are Nate, Wendy & Jenna's top reads, full rankings of the longlist & shortlist predictions. What are your Book
We've done it! The @thebookerprizes longlist has been read. 💪 In anticipation of tomorrow morning's shortlist announcement, here are Nate, Wendy & Jenna's top reads, full rankings of the longlist & shortlist predictions. What are your Booker thoughts?
@booksellersnz NZ Bookshop Day is coming up on Saturday 11 October. We are so looking forward to celebrating! Today, we are announcing TWO special activities. 🎉 Please join us for a morning or afternoon Silent Reading Rave in our upstairs room. (W
@booksellersnz NZ Bookshop Day is coming up on Saturday 11 October. We are so looking forward to celebrating! Today, we are announcing TWO special activities. 🎉 Please join us for a morning or afternoon Silent Reading Rave in our upstairs room. (We readers certainly know how to party!) Secondly, we will be hosting a mini print machine from the one and only @bobo.doodles. Don't forget the Auckland Bookshop Tour and we will also have a @librofm Golden Ticket hiding in the store.
You're invited to join Harry Ricketts & Steve Braunias in conversation in our upstairs room, on Friday 7th November. What is happiness in a suddenly unfamiliar world? What happens to us once the old connections spark and disappear? Harry write We’re here for your book needs this Labour Day. Open Monday 27th October 10am - 6pm. 🌞🌸📚 He came! He hugged! He signed! Thank you so much for visiting, @trentdaltonauthor & @harpercollinsnz. Signed copies of Gravity Let Me Go are on the shelf now. 💚💙💚💙 Happy happy birthday to our Wendy! “A book icon!” says @trentdaltonauthor. 🌸🌼🪻📚 We have signed copies of MANA by @tame_iti on the shelf now. Kua hōnore ki tūtaki ki a koe, e rangatira. ❤️🤍🖤
Time Out’s October Staff Picks. 📚📚📚
Tomorrow! Saturday 11th October! It’s @booksellersnz Bookshop Day! Come celebrate with us! Jenna popped in to see @jessemulligannz on Afternoons at @radionewzealand to chat what’s happening around the motu. Our September bestsellers list is stacked high with new releases, apart from 2024’s The Safekeep which just keeps flying out the door. 📚📚📚 We've done it! The @thebookerprizes longlist has been read. 💪 In anticipation of tomorrow morning's shortlist announcement, here are Nate, Wendy & Jenna's top reads, full rankings of the longlist & shortlist predictions. What are your Book @booksellersnz NZ Bookshop Day is coming up on Saturday 11 October. We are so looking forward to celebrating! Today, we are announcing TWO special activities. 🎉 Please join us for a morning or afternoon Silent Reading Rave in our upstairs room. (W

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