Getting all my shameless advertising over in one post in case there are people here who genuinely would like to know about these offers! These are at participating bookshops so check first! #pukapuka
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Gobsmackingly good review of Night, Ma by @elizabethknoxnz.bsky.social by @secondzeit.bsky.social newsroom.co.nz/2026/04/09/b... ^DR
#pukapuka #booksky
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New books
New NZ books
New books
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New New New! Want to see the freshest additions to our collection? Here are our lists of new fiction and non-fiction, and books on order.
my.christchurchcitylibraries.com/new-titles/#...
#booksky #pukapuka ^DR
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We at #Fantasy-Faction have our first 5 cuts in #SPFBOXI #SPFBO
Thank you to the authors for submitting your books.
#self-published #indie #fantasy📚🪄🐉#booksky💙📚 #pukapuka 📚🇳🇿
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Fiction book covers
There is also a motherlode of new and upcoming fiction I want to get my greedy read-y mitts on including Song of the Saltings by @rachaelking70.bsky.social
😍📚❤️🔥
christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/list/disp...
#booksky #pukapuka #ReadNZ
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Memoirs
What you waiting for? My May 2026 list of "Books I really want to read" includes hot memoirs by Brandy, Noelle McCarthy and
Lindy West, Gina Gershon, and LIZA!
😍📚❤️🔥
christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/list/disp...
#booksky #pukapuka #ReadNZ
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Elizabeth Knox has so many brilliant observations in this interview on writing her memoir Night, Ma: "My ideal memoir is a work of considered subjectivity. And try your best not to confound honesty with truth—anyone can be honest and mistaken." newsroom.co.nz/2026/04/08/e... ^DR
#booksky #pukapuka
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#booksky #pukapuka 💙📚🇳🇿 my book shelf has sneakily been growing with books I’ve acquired, time to whittle it down again. Starting with The Dead Husband Cookbook. the book hilariously comes with recipes 😀
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If you’d like a sneak peek of my new novel, Song of the Saltings, which is out 28 April in A/NZ and May in the US, the first chapter is up on the @allenandunwin.bsky.social website: www.allenandunwinblog.com/post/start-r... #pukapuka #folkhorror #YA #kidlit
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The three books mentioned in the post being sniffed delicately by a cat.
I was at Armageddon in Wellington and met some SpecFicNZ authors!
Ghosts of the Catacombs by Janna Ruth @janna-ruth.com
Tarquin the Honest by Gareth Ward
And bonus The Sons Of Echidna by Athena M. Bliss
@specficnz.bsky.social
#pukapuka 📚🌈
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The first fish a New Zealand child will catch is likely to be a spotty. That’s a given. But did you know that all spotties are born female? And, at 3YO, only the largest turn into males?
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Snippet from one of 25 excellent #books of 2025 📚
#pukapuka #AoNZbooks
www.nzherald.co.nz/viva/culture...
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#booksky #pukapuka 💙📚🇳🇿 not gonna lie, I wanted to read this purely because of the cover art! It’s been fairly popular at the library too. Here goes….
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A double page spread fold out of a fort.
Dazzlehands spread of Pig in various costumes.
Granny McFlitter with a knitted hat of many layers.
Helen and the go-go ninjas.
Now, some NZers!
Gavin Bishop - Patu.
Josh Morgan - Dazzlehands.
Lael Chisolm - Granny McFlitter's Eggcelent Easter.
Ant Sang.
#KidsBooksFriday
#kidlit
#pukapuka
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What more needs to be said? Life's too short, and the shelves of human-generated books staking serious claims on my time and attention are too long.
#BookSky #pukapuka
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#booksky #pukapuka 💙📚🇳🇿 … Play Nice by Rachel Harrison. Haunted house 🏚️… it’s just waitiNg for you to come home!
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📚🌈 #pukapuka
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Hey #pukapuka is there a AoNZ #kikorangi Napowrimo?
Or should I start posting prompts tomorrow
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Huzzah! This is my book!
Two separate stories, only a moment in time apart. Two pivotal episodes in one person's life. And two ENTIRELY DIFFERENT vibes.
🌱Nurture🌏 vs. 💥DESTROY🛰️
📚🌈 #pukapuka (buy link below)
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#CurrentlyReading (via library ebook at max magnification) the new to me (and sadly OOP) collected stories and novellas of Agnes Owens. Thankfully, Birlinn is in train reprinting her wee but perfectly formed backlist to mark her centennial year.
birlinn.co.uk/contributor/...
#BookSky #Pukapuka
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Screenshot from Auckland Libraries website, a catalogue entry for The Camp of the Saints.
Followers will know I'm an ride or die public library stan, so I'm saying this from a place of love.
WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK POSSESSED AUCKLAND LIBRARIES TO BUY TWO COPIES OF THIS RACIST, ANTI-IMMIGRANT SWILL AT THIS PRECISE MOMENT IN TIME?
#BookSky #Pukapuka
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cam...
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Children's book about insects
"This book is ideal for young readers and classrooms, combining culture, kindness, and environmental awareness."
Koro Wētā, reviewed and highly recommended by Georgia Tisdall, Teacher, Otatara School, Southland, for Read NZ
www.read-nz.org/school-libra...
#oratiabooks #Wētā #ReoMāori #pukapuka
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What if you had (newly-installed techno) super powers, but a head injury and subsequent brain fog made you forget you had them, and then you just accidentally started activating them without knowing how to control them?
Find out what THAT would be like! 😳😅
#pukapuka
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A graphic from Kobo showing the cover of Peace In The Sky by Caye Marsh, with a truncated summary and the price in bold beside it.
NZ friends - my novella Peace In The Sky is on sale at Kobo right now for $4.99 NZD.
A wasteland to traverse, with a thriving biodome at its heart. Will our heroes reach it? Will they be allowed inside their erstwhile home?
#pukapuka
🌈📚 (Ace/NB rep)
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Māori Place Name dictionary
Māori Place Names: Their Meanings and Origins
by A.W. Reed, edited by Peter Dowling
also available as an e-book:
oratia.co.nz/product/maor...
#māori #Aotearoa #toponymy #NewZealand #place-names #pukapuka #geography #nzbooks @nzgeo.bsky.social @nationallibrarynz.bsky.social
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I would never lament being compared to Susan Cooper, in The Horn Book no less. #kidlit #spookyMG #pukapuka #middlegrade
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I have 3 pre-orders coming in April:
How to Fake It In Society by KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com
A Widow's Charm by Caitlyn Paxson
Vile Lady Villains by Danai Christopoulou @danaiwrites.bsky.social
April will be a good month for me!
🌈📚
#pukapuka
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