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Rebuilding Tonga: Four key lessons from Fiji after Cyclone Winston
Analysis - Fiji built resilient, future-proofed houses after Cyclone Winston. For Tonga, the Fijian experience offers the opportunity to apply what was learnt.
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Book Review - Holly Walker's top 3 for 2021
Holly Walker reviews three of her favourite reads from 2021: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath by Heather Clark published by Jonathan Cape; See What You Made Me Do: Power, Control, and… Audio
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Opposition parties take contrasting views on border re-opening plan
The government's plan to re-open the border, allowing people to bypass what the prime minister has described as "the anguish of MIQ", is being shot down by the opposition as both too slow and too…
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Book Review - Three of the best of 2021: Ralph McAllister
Ralph McAllister reviews three of his favourite reads from 2021: Sweetness of Water by Nathan Harris published by Hachette NZ, Tenderness by Alison MacLeod published by Bloomsbury and The Man Who Died… Audio
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Book Review - Three of the best of 2021: The Devil's Trumpet by Tracey Slaughter, Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen and Devotion by Hannah Kent
Louise O'Brien reviews three of her favourite novels of 2021: The Devil's Trumpet by Tracey Slaughter published by VUP, Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen published by Harper Collins, Devotion by Hannah… Audio
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Book review: Three of the best of 2021: Some Answers Without Questions by Lavinia Greenlaw, Intimacies by Katie Kitamura and My Phantoms by Gwendoline Riley
Kiran Dass reviews three favourite novels from 2021: Some Answers Without Questions by Lavinia Greenlaw, published by Faber; Intimacies by Katie Kitamura published by Jonathan Cape and My Phantoms by… Audio
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Cabinet ministers to finalise dates for reopening borders
Ministers have been reviewing the dates for border reopening and RNZ understands Cabinet will finalise, but not announce, the plan today. Audio
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Book review: Three of the best from 2021: No One is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood, Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout and The Animals in That Country by Laura Jean McKay
Audio 31 Jan 2022Hannah August reviews her favourite books from last year: No One is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood published by Penguin Random House, Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout published by Penguin and… Audio
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Unity Books: Tilly's favourite books of 2021
Tilly Lloyd of Unity Books tells us about her favourites from last year - "three marvels of non-fiction". Audio
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Book review: Three of the best from 2021: Harry Broad
Harry Broad reviews three of his favourite books from last year: Wai Pasifika by David Young published by OUP, Too Much Money by Max Rashbrooke published by BWB and Performer a Memoir by Paul Maunder… Audio
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Book review: Three of the best from 2021
Audio 26 Jan 2022Paul Diamond reviews three of his favourite books from last year: The Disappearance of Lydia Harvey by Julia Laite published by Allen and Unwin; The Forgotten Coast by Richard Shaw published by Massey… Audio
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Book Critic: Catherine Ross
Today's theme for Catherine Ross' book review is 'Librarian Picks'. That's quite fitting as she is a librarian at Auckland's Diocesan School for Girls. Audio
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Book review: Three of the best from 2021: Castle Shade by Laurie R. King; Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro and The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray
Lisa Finucane reviews three of her favourite books from last year: Castle Shade by Laurie R. King published by Allen and Unwin; Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro published by Penguin Random House… Audio
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Book review: Three of the best from 2021: The Front Line by Glyn Harper, The Piano Girls by Elizabeth Smither and The End of Everything by Katie Mack
David Hill reviews three of his favourite books from last year: The Front Line by Glyn Harper published by Massey Press, The Piano Girls by Elizabeth Smither published by Quentin Wilson Publishing and… Audio
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Child wins five-year battle with ACC for birth-related injury cover
An 11-year-old boy left disabled by a botched birth has finally been given ACC cover after a five-year battle.
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Calls for targeted support for Northland: 'Some people will go broke'
Northlanders are calling for specific regional financial support to keep businesses open and people employed after a quiet peak summer season.
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Like father, like son: Artist Ai Weiwei's memoir
Chinese contrarian artist Ai Weiwei writes a memoir that is as much about his dissident-poet father and his hopes for his son, as it about himself. Reviewed by Jeremy Rees.
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How TikTok is bringing people together in one big online book club
The classic book club has gone to TikTok, complete with viral trends, hilarious memes - and good reads.
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Book Review: The Gosden Years
Dan Slevin salutes a book surveying the late film festival director’s erudite and gracious programme notes and introductions and pays tribute to a life dedicated to bringing audiences to great movies.
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NZ buys time for Covid-19 boosters, but MIQ changes cancels Christmas for some
Cameron Laing thought he had planned his Christmas trip home to New Zealand perfectly. But last week his MIQ stay was extended after a case of Omicron was detected on his flight.
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Ali Ventura's top 10 films of 2021
Audio 24 Dec 2021Ali Ventura looks back at her favourite 10 films of 2021. Video, Audio
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'An unparalleled stylist': US journalist and author Joan Didion dies aged 87
Author Joan Didion, whose essays, memoirs, novels and screenplays provided observations on contemporary American society, has died at the age of 87.
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Book review: The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles
Ralph McAllister reviews The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles, published by Penguin Random House Audio
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Movie review - Best Sellers
Audio 22 Dec 2021Dan Slevin reviews a drama starring Michael Caine about a reclusive author forced back out on the road to promote his new book. Audio
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Book review: The Uprising - The Mapmakers of Cruxcia by Eirlys Hunter
Joanna Ludbrook from Chicken and Frog bookstore in Featherston reviews The Uprising - the Mapmakers of Cruxcia by Eirlys Hunter, published by Gecko Press Audio
