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24/07/2025

Holiday in the winterless Northland but always time for a book!
🌟 Daughters Of Batavia by

It seems appropriate reading this by the sea 😊

16/07/2025

The book page is back!
With a focus on books that you may want to include in your book clubs - they're the pearls I've found in the literary landscape of recent releases and hot off the keyboards.
Check it out each month in the Wairarapa Times Age and there's an opportunity for locals to enter the competition to win.

Purchase books @ www.booksonline.co.nz

08/07/2025

The July edition of Book Club with Read by Reid is happening tomorrow 5.30pm! We can't wait to see you all ❤

If you haven't been to our Book Club before, here are a few things to know:

✨ We usually talk about 3 or 4 new books plus any interesting news from the world of books
✨ You don't have to read the books in advance unless you'd like to – Sue structures the discussion to be fun either way!
✨ You don't need to attend every month - dip in and out as life allows!
✨ The loveliest people come to Book Club
✨ There's always wine and a delicious snack

All the details and tickets are available from our website. See you there! https://booksonline.co.nz/events/

01/07/2025

new full book reviews out today @ www.readbyreid.nz (see link in bio)
scroll down to check them out to find your next literary pearl...

30/06/2025

July Book Club picks
A strong, cracker line up this month with bold titles!
Meet instore on Wednesday 9th July
5.30pm - 6.30pm
Tickets @ www.booksonline.co.nz

🌟 The Chemist by A A Dhand - a true adrenaline producing thriller with a twist. Idris is the endearing community pharmacist and brings his clever mindset and chemical equations to deliver justice to the drug lords of Leeds. Brilliant!

🌟 The River Is Waiting by Wally Lamb - only Wally Lamb can bring a character's life to the fore, examine and peel back the layers to reveal a broken human spirit. Confronting and sobering but an examination of a prisoner, prison system and the tenacles that reach to wider society.

🌟 Speak To Me Of Home by Jeanine Cummins - three generations of women making peace with their heritage from the author of American Dirt. From the cultural vibrancy of Puerto Rico in the 1950s to MidWest USA, New York suburbia and full circle to the place where their roots were established. Brings us an understanding to what its really like to be uprooted from all that is familiar.

Three powerful books that are already on my top ten for this year!

HarperCollins Publishers New Zealand

Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand

26/06/2025

A fabulous gathering by to celebrate the debut novel, A Beautiful Family by .

"Capturing a more carefree time, one summer in the 1980s free from cellphones but full of outdoor exploration, imagination and a new friendship between ten year old Alix and Kahu. Both families on holiday in the Kapiti Coast.
Told through the lens of Alix, our heart leaps at the oddities Alix notices and risks she'll take. What lurks in the summery shadows and who is the neighbor perched high on his deck with his eyes in their direction?
The narrative sparks and your mind is busy capturing all the clues. It's breath-holding, rapid-page-turning through to the end as danger is woven through the normality of a simple summer holiday. "
Reid By Reid NZ

26/06/2025

Celebrating Jennifer Trevelyan's debut novel A Beautiful Family.
order at https://booksonline.co.nz/

18/06/2025

Check out the new Kid's Reading Guide from
Pairing books for the right age and fabulous recommendations to help you nurture mind and imagination of our tamariki!
I've waited for this and now we have the winter edition out now, pick up your copy at your local bookseller.

11/06/2025

Everything Lost, Everything Found by Matthew Hooton .
Not the NZ commentator Matthew Hooton but Canadian, now based in Adelaide, Australia as Senior Lecturer in creative writing, english and film.

"Everything Lost, Everything Found is the narrative of Jack Fawcett, 1999 looking in the rear-view mirror of his life in Michigan.
In 1929 Jack traveled with his parents to the Brazilian Amazon Basin for his father's job as key manager in Henry Ford's brainchild settlement 'Fordlandia'. Set up as a reliable rubber source of supply for Ford car tyres.
Combining fascinating history, this novel is to be appreciated when read slowly. I found myself pausing and re-reading a phrase.
Big lofty observations of the world are neatly packed into sentences.
Unlikely friendships and alliances are like snapshots of light throughout the harsh environment and brutality.
Not a book to be consumed then set aside for the next, but to ponder Jack as a 12 year old, Jack as he faces huge losses or Jack trying to be the man he expected to be - all trying to make sense of all the parts of his lived life fit in some sensical order.

From the same publishers that discovered Trent Dalton you can see the similarities of beautifully crafted telling of tale.

Perfect for fans of All The Shimmering Skies by Trent Dalton or The Librarianist by Patrick de Witt."

Order from www.booksonline.co.nz

11/06/2025

Another full house at June Book Club
Interesting bookish korero as we discussed these gems.
🌟 Everything Lost Everything Found by Matthew Hooton
🌟 The Good Mistress by Anne Tiernan
🌟 A Beautiful Family by Jennifer Trevelyan
🌟 The Remarkable Truths Of Alfie Bains by Sarah Clutton

Full reviews to follow

07/06/2025

Sneak preview....
"It takes a lot to move me to tears when turning pages...this one did.
I'm stunned.
Profound,thoughtful and challenging as only can do."

03/06/2025

June Book Club picks !
Meeting again on Wednesday 11th June
5.30pm-6.30pm instore. Book at www.booksonline.co.nz

🌟 Everything Lost, Everything Found by Matthew Hooton - Jack Fawcett is looking in the rear view mirror of all that's gone by to make all the parts of his lived life fit into sensical order. Featuring the fascinating history of Henry Ford's brainchild Fordlandia in the Amazing Basin, 1929. Beautifully crafted telling of a tale from the same publishers that discovered Trent Dalton!
HarperCollins Publishers New Zealand

🌟 The Good Mistress by Anne Tiernan - Rory, Juliet, Maeve and Dan have been inseparable friends since childhood growing up in Ballyboyne near Dublin in Ireland. But, life cuts across their innocence and loyalty. An exploration in raw human need, guilt, shame and making peace with blame and loss.
Moa Pressess Hachette Aotearoa New Zealanda NZ

🌟 A Beautiful Family by Jennifer Trevelyan - I have been waiting to share this book with you! Set over one summer in 1985 during a bach holiday in Waikanae near Wellington. Capturing an age and time in the 80s free from cellphones, full of outdoor exploration, imagination and two ten year olds swimming between innocence and 'adult-knowing'. Told through the lens of ten year old Alix.
Allen & Unwin Aotearoa NZnz

🌟 The Remarkable Truths Of Alfie Bains by Sarah Clutton - Alfred Edward Deegan Bains is nearly ten. Endearing, inquisitive, perceptive and seeks the truth. For answers to the mystery of his father. Solid, direct, all-encompassing sensitive writing that makes this a debut novel that will linger long after the last page.
Allen & Unwin Aotearoa NZnz

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