RNZ Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Firefighters had nicknamed the truck 'Christine', after the killer car in a Stephen King horror novel. "I can't in good conscience be an investigator on an appliance failure of this nature, knowing that this appliance has failed many times in the past." https://t.co/rmVr9Ik5gO

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In 2016, disillusioned with city life, journalist Hazel Phillips left Auckland with a pack, tramping boots, ski gear and her laptop. In the new book Solo, she writes about her adventures tramping from Mt Ruapehu to Fiordland. She tells RNZ her story: https://t.co/8cWmIWRwqa

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It’s been a decade since Eleanor Catton’s novel The Luminaries won the Man Booker Prize. Her almost instant international literary fame came at a personal cost. She spoke with Kim Hill about her third novel Birnam Wood and why she's not on social media. https://t.co/LOi0q9BsHT

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Loretta Lynn, the coal miner's daughter and moonshiner's wife who became one of American country music's biggest stars and a leading feminist in the genre, died on Tuesday at the age of 90, her family said. https://t.co/0lKWPLkjMw

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“There was a fear that vigorous movement like running could make her uterus fall out.” Journalist Danielle Friedman has tracked the fascinating history of women's exercise culture through her book Let's Get Physical and talked to Nine To Noon about it: https://t.co/mmBjLcRDeb

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The plaintiff of the the case, known by the pseudonym Jane Roe, was Norma McCorvey. Her unwanted pregnancy in 1969 opened a great fracture in America, but baby Roe was in fact born. Journalist Prager tells her story in his latest book, The Family Roe. https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/saturday/audio/2018843778/joshua-prager-whatever-happened-to-baby-roe

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#LISTEN American author Annie Proulx's latest book, Fen, Bog and Swamp, is about the history of wetland destruction and the role it plays in the climate crisis. She tells @ninetonoon swamps can protect against climate change if we only let them. https://t.co/I0W7uYzim7

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WATCH | SAM'S TAKE This week @SamuelRillstone looks at Robert Eggers’ latest, the historical epic The Northman. The story follows Amleth (Alexander Skarsgard), a Viking prince who sets out on a quest to avenge the murder of his father (Ethan Hawke). https://youtu.be/nXFyjHfEfYE

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Former President Donald Trump was ordered today to testify under oath and provide documents to the House of Representatives committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol by his supporters. https://t.co/oJi9VzIXM2

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In 1944, a young Slovakian man achieved the near impossible – he escaped the horrors of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. His poignant and important tale is told in new detail by journalist Jonathan Freedland in the new book The Escape Artist. https://t.co/HfY473hDx4