95bFM: Loose Reads

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!

Thanks to TimeOut Bookstore

Thanks to Time Out Bookstore!

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!

Suri discusses the new novel Dream Count by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - thanks to our friends at Time Out Bookstore!

This week's book review on Loose Reads is Suri's take on the debut novel by Nussaibah Younis, Fundamentally - brought to you by Time Out Bookstore.    

Jenna chats about the spooooooky new book from Susan Barker Old Soul.  Thanks to Time Out Bookstore!

Abby gives you the low down on Star Gazers by Duncan Sarkies, a local read due for release this Thursday! If you're looking for a piece of fun and satirical fiction, Star Gazers is highly recommended. For fans of political intrigue, comedy and alpacas. Thanks to our friends at Time Out! 

Jonny brings you Loose Reads thanks to our friends at Time Out Bookstore.

This week on Loose Reads, Suri discusses the reprint of Barbara Kingsolver's 1989 novel Holding The Line. The novel, which kickstarted her writing career, traces the women-led Great Arizona Mine Strike of 1983. Whakarongo mai nei!  Thanks to our friends at Time Out Bookstore.

The first Loose Reads of 2025! Thanks to our friends at Time Out Bookstore

Jenna and Jonny take requests from listeners for book recommendations for Christmas presents and summer reading. Whakarongo mai nei!

This week Jonny gets some sci-fi fantasy summer reading recommendations from Suri. Including a new comic from the creator of Watchmen Alan Moore, Rebecca Yarros's new book Onyx Storm and more!

Jenna chats some of the staff picks from Time Out in time for Christmas - first up is Juice by Australian author Tim Winton. Whakarongo mai nei!

Jonny chats to Suri about the book recommendation of the week. The latest book from Ta-Nehisi Coates titled The Message. The book contains three interweaving essays that investigate how fictional and factual narrations distort and expose our realities.

Jenna reviews Samantha Harvey's sixth book and winner of the Booker Prize 2024 Orbit. Whakarongo mai nei!

Suri reviews Blue Ruin by Hari Kunzru. 

On Loose Reads this week, Jenna recommends a summer read and potential Christmas present, The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden. This novel also happens to be nominated for the 2024 Booker Prize! Whakarongo mai nei~

Jenna phones in from Time Out in Maungawhai to talk about New Zealand author Damien Wilkins' new book Delirious. Whakarongo mai nei!

Suri from Time Out Bookstore talks to us about A Sunny Place for Shady People from Argentinian writer Mariana Enríquez. This is Enríquez's first short story collection since The Dangers of Smoking in Bed was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize. The stories in this most recent collection weave the occult, ghosts, love, queer counterculture and Argentina's turbulent and brutal past.