Category: Reading
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Felonies in Feilding (Mystery in the Library 2025 event)
Fantastic night with this bunch of felons in Feilding! The Bookshop Detectives, Bing Turkby, and Patricia Dunmore chatted crime, character, research, plotting, and how they take something from just an idea to a fully fledged novel. Great fun! If you missed out tonight, we’ll be doing another Ngaio Marsh Awards ‘Mystery in the Library’ event…
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Book launch in the library newsletter (with links!)
We’re launching the latest Milverton Mystery, Death in Douglas Glade, in just under two weeks at the library and I’d love to see you there! You can see the notice in this month’s library newsletter: I don’t know about ‘top’, but I’ll take it! What are you looking for now?
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Writing my next book on the train to Wellington
There’s nothing quite like writing (or reading!) a book while the world passes by. Earlier this week I spent the day in the capital and thought I’d share a bit of what I got up to, including some thoughts on my next book, Fright on Stage Right. The short video is the same across TikTok,…
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Saturday is New Zealand Bookshop Day
It’s bookshop day tomorrow! Make sure you visit your local bookshop to see what’s going on. Of course, if you’re in my neck of the woods, you are also most welcome to visit my local bookshop, Bruce McKenzie Booksellers: And would you look at what’s in this lovely stack of books they’ve put together: If…
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The Bookshop Detectives come to town: vlog recap
Gareth and Louise Ward, Wardini Books booksellers and authors of The Bookshop Detectives, chat about a range of things in their second vlog, which you can watch on their Facebook page. They discuss their latest book club book, spilling industry secrets, blue ducks (which feature in Poison at Penshaw Hall!), the mum network, the “seething…