Get your bookworm on with a rotating roster of, um, bookworms. Including Jenna Todd & Kiran Dass from Time Out Bookstore, bringing us a different book to talk about each week. Broadcast from Auckland, New Zealand on Monday mornings after 9am, on 95bFM Breakfast with Mikey Havoc.
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Nate is up in studio chatting with Rosetta and Milly about Kate Camp's Leather & Chains: My 1986 Diary. A unique follow-up to her memoir You Probably Think This Song Is About You, Kate Camp turns her poet' s eye on her 1986 diary. Whakarongo mai nei! Thanks to Timeout Bookstore!
Jenna joins Rosetta and Milly for Loose Reads - chatting about Leila Mottley's The Girls Who Grew Big. Whakarongo mai nei! Thanks to Timeout Bookstore!
Nate is back up for Loose Reads, and today we're getting deep into questions of morality and mortality, with George Saunders' Vigil. Whakarongo mai nei! Thanks to Timeout Bookstore!
Jenna from Timeout is up in the studio with Rosetta and Milly to chat about the perfect read for the grumpy customer service worker in your life - John Tottenham's Service! Whakarongo mai nei! Thanks to Timeout Bookstore!
We're making up for Auckland Anniversary day with a special Thursday Loose Reads! Nate chats about the newly announced Ockham Book Awards Longlist, and one of his top picks from the list: Tracy Farr's Wonderland! Thanks to Timeout Bookstore!
Jenna is back up in the studio for another year of great reads, and today we delve into Tony Tulathimutte's Rejection - an audacious, original and unforgettable novel-in-stories that follows a cast of intricately linked characters as rejection throws their lives and relationships into chaos. Whakarongo mai nei! Thanks to Timeout Bookstore!
It's the first Loose Reads of 2026! Nate is kicking things off in the studio, with a kōrero all about Helm by Sarah Hall - a surprising and delightful book about a special wind. Whakarongo mai nei! Thanks to Timeout Bookstore!
It's our last Loose Reads for the year, and Suri's last Loose Reads ever! Rosetta and Milly chat with her about her favourite reads of 2025, whats in her summer reading pile, and her ins and outs for 2026 literature. Whakarongo mai nei! Thanks to Timeout Bookstore!
Jenna is up in the studio chatting with Rosetta and Milly about all things books for Loose Reads! Today, they cover some recommendations for your Christmas shopping needs - whakarongo mai nei! Thanks to Timeout Bookstore!
Nate is up in the studio for Loose Reads! Today, he tell Rosetta and Milly all about The Silver Book by Olivia Laing. Whakarongo mai nei! Thanks to Timeout Bookstore!
Suri is back up in the studio for Loose Reads! Today she's talking with Rosetta and Milly about the latest book from Patricia Lockwood, Will There Ever Be Another You. Whakarongo mai nei! Thanks to Timeout Bookstore!
Today, Jenna joins Milly for chat about Laura Vincent's new novel Hoods Landing! A great read for the lead up to Christmas and a great way to support New Zealand writers, printers, and publishers! Thanks to Timeout Bookstore!
Suri is up for another bangin' Loose Reads with Rosetta and Milly! Today, she chats about Thomas Pynchon's new novel Shadow Ticket. Whakarongo mai nei! Thanks to Timeout Bookstore!
Jenna joins Rosetta and Milly in the studio for a kōrero about a thrilling new pukapuka - Elaine Costillo's Moderation. Whakarongo mai nei! Thanks to Timeout Bookstore!
Nate is up in the studio for Loose Reads this week! Today on the show, he has a kōrero with Rosetta and Milly about The City Changes Its Face by Eimear McBride. Whakarongo mai nei! Thanks to Timeout Bookstore!
Jenna is up in the studio for Loose Reads, recapping an exciting weekend with Bookshop Day at Time Out, and chatting about Niamh Ni Mhaoileoin's Ordinary Saints. Whakarongo mai nei! Thanks to Time Out Bookstore!
Suri is back up in the studio for Loose Reads, and today she's chatting about Chris Kraus' latest novel, The Four Spent the Day Together. Whakarongo mai nei! Thanks to Timeout Bookstore!
This week Jenna and Milly catch up to chat about the Booker shortlist, as well as Bookstore Day coming up on the 11th October, which Timeout are holding a number of cool events for! Whakarongo mai nei! Thanks to Timeout Bookstore!
Today on Loose Reads, Suri is chatting with Rosetta and Milly about 'House of Day, House of Night' by Olga Tokarczuk. Whakarongo mai nei!
I tēnei rā, kei te kōrero Jenna i te pukapuka ngā Mike McRoberts: 'Te Kōrero i Tōku Reo'! Mike McRoberts' 'Speaking My Language' narrates the iconic journalist's journey through reconnecting with his whakapapa and reo, and offers mātauranga for others hoping to do the same. Whakarongo mai nei! Thanks to Timeout Bookstore!
Nate is up in studio for Loose Reads! He's chatting with Rosetta and Milly about Arundhati Roy's Memoir 'Mother Mary Comes to Me.' Whakarongo mai nei! Thanks to Timeout Bookstore!
Today on Loose Reads, Jenna is up in studio to chat with Rosetta and Milly about Vera, Or Faith by Gary Shteyngart - a boldly imagined story of family and country told through the clear and wondrous eyes of a child. Whakarongo mai nei!
Today on Loose Reads, Suri is up in the studio to chat about Endling by Maria Reva - An unforgettable debut novel about the journey of three women and one extremely endangered snail through contemporary Ukraine. Whakarongo mai nei! Thanks to Timeout Bookstore!
Today on Loose Reads, Jenna is chatting about The Benefactors by Wendy Erskine: in which three women from very different families are brought together when their sons are accused of assaulting a young woman whose social standing they see as far below their own. Whakarongo mai nei! Thanks to Timeout Bookstore!
Today on Loose Reads, Suri is up in the studio to chat about Among Friends by Hal Ebbott - A betrayal that should shatter their seemingly perfect lives. But will they let it? Whakarongo mai nei! Thanks to Timeout Bookstore!
Jenna is up for a chat about some exciting book news - including a new book from NZ music expert Gareth Shute, the Bookers Prize Shortlist, and more! Jenna also chats with Milly and Rosetta about Neil Blackmore's Objects of Desire. Whakarongo mai nei!
Today on Loose Reads, Jenna is up in the studio to chat about Susan Choi's novel Flashlight - a story of the lives of the three people who make a family, the one moment in history that shatters what held them together, and the reverberations of that event that last a lifetime. Whakarongo mai nei! Thanks to Timeout Bookstore!
Suri is up in the studio to chat about Mary McCarthy's 1957 memoir Memories of a Catholic Girlhood: a witty, scathing, piercingly insightful and stylishly written reflection on the author's 1920s upbringing. Whakarongo mai nei! Thanks to TimeOut Bookstore!
This week Jenna reviews the new novel from Jamaican/U.K. author William Rayfet Hunter, Sunstruck. It's a sun-drenched yet turbulent novel and marks a bold debut for Hunter. Whakarongo mai nei!
Milly and Tuva'a chat to Suri from the Time Out book store about a book that follows a water droplet throughout time! From a Mesopotamian King all the way to modern day.. Thanks to Time Out Bookstore!
Jenna reviews the first two volumes from On The Calculation of Volumes by Solvej Balle. The first book in the septology by the Danish author has been shortlisted for the International Booker Prize. Thanks to Time Out Bookstore!
Jenna phones in to review the latest from award-winning authour Tina Makereti (Te Āti Awa, Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Ngāti Rangatahi-Matakore, Pākehā). Makereti's newest work is a collection of essays titled This Compulsion Within Us is introspective and personal, whakarongo mai nei to hear Jenna's whakaaro on this week's recommended read! Thanks to our pals at Time Out Bookstore!
Suri catches Jonny up on the Auckland Writers' and Readers' Festival. Thanks to Time Out Bookstore.
Jenna is gearing up for the busiest week in books with the Auckland Book Festival, Ockham Book Awards and reviews the ninth novel from Catherine Chidgey, The Book of Guilt. Thanks to Time Out Bookstore!
This week Suri reviews 1985 by Dominic Hoey - a cinematic fiction set in Grey Lynn. Thanks to our friends at Time Out Bookstore!
Ex-bFM newsreader George is in the studio with Jonny to review Graydon Carter's recently published memoir When the Going Was Good: An Editor's Adventures During the Last Golden Age of Magazines. The memoir details Carter's illustrous and long-lasting career as a editor at Vanity Fair during the rock'n'roll era of print media. Thanks to our friends at Time Out Bookstore!
Suri reviews the novella Stag Dance by Torrey Peters, the follow-up publication to Peters' Women's Prize-nominated Detransition, Baby. The novella is a collection of acidicly sharp short stories that trace the 'rough edges' of trans experiences. Suri highly recommends this read so whakarongo mai nei! Thanks to our friends at Time Out Bookstore.
Jenna reviews Vincenzo Latronico's International Booker prized nominated novel Perfection. Thanks to our friends at Time Out Bookstore.
This week Suri discusses The Clay Eaters by Gregory Kan. A haunting read that weaves history and memoir. Thanks to our friends at Time Out Bookstore.
Jenna reviews The Antidote by Karen Russell. Set in 1930s Nebraska, the author's latest book delves into collective memory (and forgetting), man-made environmental disaster, and the genocide of the native American nations of the mid-West. Thanks to Time Out Bookstore!
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