Read for NZ Book Awards From 1960s Wellington to post-Communist Germany, Bug Week is a collection of short stories that traverses the weird, the wry and the grotesque fragments of people’s lives. There are bug collectors, necrophiliacs, an albatross at an open mic night,… Continue Reading “Bug Week And Other Stories – Airini Beautrais”
Category: Kiwi lit, Short StoriesTags: Best Books, Bookclub, Bookclub Blog, Books, Books To Read, Kiwi lit, Literature, Must Read Books, NZ Book Awards, NZ Ficton, Short Stories
READ FOR BOOKERTHON In the world of Mister Pip, reading Dickens represents salvation for a community ravaged by conflict. ⚈ “Lloyd Jones’s novel is set in a village on the Papua New Guinean island of Bougainville during the 1990s civil war. Jones covered it as… Continue Reading “Mister Pip – Lloyd Jones”
Category: Booker Prize, Coming of Age, Kiwi lit, Literary fiction, War storyTags: Best Books, Bookclub, Bookclub Blog, Booker Prize, Books, Books To Read, Kiwi lit, Literature, Mister Pip, Must Read Books, NZ Ficton
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