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Join your hosts Holly and Bella, as they dive into themes ranging from romance to quirky book blurbs, all discovered within the depths of the Athenaeum library.
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Weather is a great conceit for exploring ideas in creative writing. Holly and Bella have a chat about books that feature the weather. They look at Ian McEwan - 'What we can Know' . Solvej Balle - 'On the Calculation of Volume' and N.K. Jemisin - 'The Fifth Season'.
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Holly has a chat with local poet Jasmine O M Taylor. They discus how Jasmine started her passion for writing, The Octagon Collective and what events Jasmine is involved with in this years Writers and Readers Festival.
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Holly and Bella share some poems by Liz Breslin, Freya Jackson, John Berryman and Emma Neale.
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This episode of Books Uncovered is hosted by Bella, who reviews two books she has read recently: A Room Above a Shop by Anthony Shapland and Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V.E. Schwab. She discusses the themes of these novels, including queer love, the AIDS epidemic, and the vampire trope in fiction. Bella also provides her opinion on the strengths and weaknesses of each book and shares some of her favourite quotes.
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In this episode of Books Uncovered, hosts Holly and Bella discuss a selection of new titles available at the Dunedin Athenaeum Library. The conversation covers a range of genres, from a literary thriller exploring parental fears to a reimagined classic and a collection of novellas. They also mention upcoming literary events in Dunedin.
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Show 28 - Holly interviews Caitlin - Holly has a chat with budding journalist Cailin Lester. They discuss books by Maurice Gee, Sarah Moss and the 2025 International Booker Prize winner Banu Mushtaq, with his book Heart Lamp.
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We talk about essayist Ta-Nehisi Coates, Airini Beautrais, Daniel M Lavery and Flora Feltham.
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We discussed novels that have been translated into English.We look at novels - "The book of disappearance' by Ibtisam Azem. 'Kairos' by Jenny Erpenbeck and "'Under the eye of the big bird' by Hiromi kawakami.
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We discuss various authors we've been reading including, Alan Hollinghurst, Vincent Delecroix and Sharon Olds.
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Holly has a conversation with writer and artist Penny Bloomberg. They discuss libraries, the Master in Creative Writing at Otago University. And the importance of reading and embracing creative endeavors later in life.
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Holly and Bella have a chat about poets Brendan Constantine, Jenny Rockwell, CAConrad, Amy Key and James Brown.
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Hybrid Text - We talk about hybrid text and how this form of writing is difficult to categorise. Authors Justine Torres, Lydia Davis, Anne Carson and Kate Zambreno.
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We talk about fiction books that converse with nature. Embracing the wild, the unknown the dark scary forest- or is it that scary? We look at authors Emily McGuire, Lauren Groff, Charlotte McConaghy, Rebecca Tamás and E.M Forster.
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20 - Women's Prize for Fiction - Holly and Bella talk about authors, Aria Aber, Roisin O'Donnelly and Yael van der Wouden- who have been long-listed for the 2025 Women's Prize for Fiction.
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We discuss Australian authors Hannah Kent, Liane Moriarty and Robbie Arnott.
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Holly and Bella chat about Ockham Longlisted writers-Richard Shaw, Una Cruickshank, Kirsty Gunn. And the Booker Prize winner Samantha Harvey.
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17 - Books about and from the 1990s - Talk about authors Megan Nolan, Rebecca Makkai, Susanna Moore and Hua Hsu.
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Holly chats with Catlin about what authors made a impact on her reading world. And how does she select what to read next, when the world is full of wonderful writers.
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We talk about authors Carson McCullers, Shirley Jackson, Flannery O'Conner and Octavia E Butler
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