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Loose Reads

Get your bookworm on with a rotating roster of, um, bookworms. Including Jenna Todd & Suri Reddy from Time Out Bookstore, bringing us a different book to talk about each week.

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Loose Reads w/ Jenna: July 7, 2025

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Mon 7 Jul 2025

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!

Loose Reads w/ Suri: June 30, 2025

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Mon 30 Jun 2025

Thanks to TimeOut Bookstore

Loose Reads w/ Jenna: June 23, 2025

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Mon 23 Jun 2025

Thanks to Time Out Bookstore!

Loose Reads w/ Suri: June 16, 2025

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Mon 16 Jun 2025

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!

Loose Reads w/ Jenna: June 9, 2025

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Mon 9 Jun 2025

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!

Loose Reads w/ Jenna: May 26, 2025

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Mon 26 May 2025

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!

Loose Reads w/ Suri: May 19, 2025

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Mon 19 May 2025

Suri catches Jonny up on the Auckland Writers' and Readers' Festival. 

Thanks to Time Out Bookstore. 

Loose Reads w/ Jenna: May 12, 2025

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Mon 12 May 2025

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!

Loose Reads w/ Suri: May 5, 2025

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Mon 5 May 2025

This week Suri reviews 1985 by Dominic Hoey - a cinematic fiction set in Grey Lynn. Thanks to our friends at Time Out Bookstore!

Loose Reads w/ George: April 28, 2025

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Mon 28 Apr 2025

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!