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Book reviews
Book Review: My Favourite Hugs, by Debby Guddee and Melissa Rodrigues. Illustrated by Su Mon
Book Review: How to hear classical music, by Davinia Caddy (Awa Press)
Psst, we are giving away Hero of the Hill by Joy Cowley @scholasticnz on our facebook page
Events
If you like children’s books, this is one not to miss. Best and Worst Children’s Books of the year
Gregory O’Brien and Robert Kearns in conversation on poetry, landscape and the Chatham Islands
See Michelle Leggott, Owen Marshall, Martin Edmond & Fiona Farrell, City Gallery 30 Oct 12.30pm
Publishers – Just over a week left to submit your publications (Jun-Nov #nzpba, Jan-Nov #nzpcba) for the awards. Deadline 1 November.
Just received some @penguinbooksnz – The Boring Book is unlike anything I’ve seen published in NZ before! Delightful!
My 3yo took to ‘A Book is a Book’ (Gecko Press) this morning – it became a very special beast, the car book. Now to wrest it off him for review.
Booker News
@gtiso The big prize: Eleanor Catton, New Zealand, and the Booker. Thanks for the analysis.
Interesting read regarding book reviewing in NZ, specifically about the Luminaries
From around the internet
‘Buy it because you want to read the bloody thing’ – another impassioned salvo on the point of literary magazines
Charles Darwin’s Son Draws Cute Pictures on the Manuscript of On the Origin of Species
Publishers, are you missing Frankfurt? Here are some familiar faces to help you cope.
