Read by Reid

16/02/2025

calling on the writers - here's a wonderful opportunity to submit.

11/02/2025

Lock this date into your diaries now.
"Don't miss this amazing opportunity to hear from Niki Bezzant. Informative and honest with a realistic understanding of women and the years that reshape and change us. Positive without guru-mantras, her vast experience will satisfy the many questions you may have."

Join with for their annual One Book One Community event at Copthorne Resort Solway
Saturday 22nd March 2025 4pm -6pm
Tickets $20

05/02/2025

Waitangi Day
A significant day and a most poignant place.
As a whanau we have visited Treaty Grounds with korero between our children (2015).
We've had many travels to our whanau (two) marae on the East Coast...all powerful, bonding times whereby history and present connect the generations. Where stories of our whakapapa are told with all honesty. Our children have this generational knowledge.
This is one half of us. I'm Australian, with my own stories to pass on. So we're a very interesting little family! As an Australian, our two halves have become a woven tapestry of a rich and vivid culture.

30/01/2025

Readbyreid.nz February picks:
👗 Molly by Rosalie Ham - prequel to The Dressmaker and gives you a sharp insight into Molly Dunnage, Melbourne 1914. Injustices but strong bonds of kin.
🇮🇷 The Lion Women Of Tehran by Marjan Kamali - the powerful story of two young girls that forged a friendship in the shadows of political turmoil of Iran. Courageous and how the class divide can be as devastating as a regime. From 1950 Tehran to modern day.
🌳 One Dark Night by Hannah Richell - tense, murder mystery but the investigation is complicated when it's a small town and the police detectives have children involved.
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29/01/2025

It's nearly time for Hedley's Book Club to begin again...12th February 5.30pm-6.30pm in store.
A large TBR stack has been devoured...but tell me what was part of your reading retreat this summer ☀️ ?

09/01/2025

The near year has kicked off and the TBR stack in in full speed mode. So much to bring forth in '25...stay tuned.

30/12/2024

Happy New Year...welcome to 2025!

23/12/2024

Simply Thank You - for all your support & business this year.
Sue Reid AKA Read By Reid NZ 📚

20/12/2024

Another bookish year comes to a close...thank you for all your support this year - a crazy, unpredictable ride!
Cheers to new pages and chapters in 2025 as we continue to work together.
Sue Reid

13/12/2024

KAWAI - TREE OF NOURISHMENT by Dr Monty Soutar

"The storytelling moves from legendary warrior Kaitanga in his first book 'Kawai -For Such A Time As This'. We now hear from Hine-aue, the granddaughter of Kaitanga on the East Coast of the North Island. Hine asserts her character with a strong presence and steadfastness that is needed when the historical musket wars erupt in the early 1800s.
A new killing tool that requires Hine's people to respond alike and gain muskets for their own protection. As a strong matriarch of her family, she needs to adapt customary practice but preserve cultural beliefs. As a new generation arise and contact with British missionaries increase, Hine finds an inner resolve to resist the challenges as guardian of the great taonga and teachings, but tension builds in a battle for the minds and spirit of her people.
Hine's character is the spine of Kawai-Tree Of Nourishment book two in the Kawai Series and anchors the genuine historical narrative by Dr Monty Soutar."
Sue Reid, Read By Reid NZ

*for the full review head to www.readbyreid.nz -link in bio.

13/12/2024

Just in time for your holiday reading list - the complete review is available now.
"Historical fiction at its best with resolute, hardworking, gracious Jane Saville at its heart. Overcoming shame, that is not hers to carry, is one of her admirable traits and the pieces all fall into place with romance and drama that will satisfy Fiona McIntosh fans..."
Sue Reid
Read By Reid NZ
Penguin Books NZ
Fiona McIntosh

Hardworking, gracious Jane overcomes shame, that is not hers to carry and all the pieces fall into place with romance and drama.

13/12/2024

Amongst the Christmas chat, we reviewed some suggested 'holiday reads'...here's the full review of Hazelbourne Ladies Motorcycle and Flying Club by Helen Simonson Allen & Unwin NZ.
"A captivating tale set in 1919 Post-War England in and around a seaside hotel with a full, colourful and vast array of characters that are the strength of this loved tale..."
Sue Reid - Read By Reid NZ

A captivating tale set in and around a seaside hotel with a full, colourful array of characters that give structure and strength to this loved tale.

12/12/2024

Festive fun, reflection of 2024 and chapter chatter as we gathered for the final Book Club of the year at . We're all set for holiday reading and rest. See you all again on February 11th 2025 for the next Hedley's Book Club!

10/12/2024

op-ed out today - we live in interesting times.
Hachette Aotearoa New ZealandMoa PressHarperCollins Publishers New ZealandAllen & Unwin NZMacmillan PublishersBooksellers Aotearoa NZ

Opinion piece by Wairarapa Midweek contributor Sue Reid.

05/12/2024

We close the chapters of 2024 with our Holiday Edition of Book Club Wednesday 11th December!
What a year, what a crazy ride...so it's time for some Christmas treats, fizz and joy!

Join us as we discuss some summer picks too:
🍎 The Fallen Woman by Fiona McIntosh
🌟 Leave The Girls Behind by Jacqueline Bublitz
🏍 Hazelbourne Ladies Motorcycle And Flying Club by Helen Simonson
🍃 Kawai (book 2) Tree Of Nourishment by Dr Monty Soutar

02/12/2024

Sad news in the publishing industry today ...
I have pretty much reviewed all of Susan Duncan's books - her last one was Sleepless in Stringy Bark Bay and her new book due out this week, Finding Joy In Oyster Bay from &UnwinNZ