Tolkien at the beginning - Lots of great new books to review and then we talk about the early years of J R R Tolkien the great writer of The Lord of the Rings. There is even more of interest about his early life than the new film lets on.

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We remember Doris Day discussing the real life grit behind the sunny image. Plus we have more new books to talk about.

New Books - We have new books! Plus an insight into the domestic lives of the super rich (they really are not like you or me) and why a 100 years ago young women preferred to work in a factory and go to the pictures every night rather than do domestic work in other peoples homes - hard to believe but true.

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Rosalie's first novel - Rosalie Ambrogio the previous Head Librarian at the Athenaeum has published a novel called Port Adventure and it is one of the books we review in this show

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Even more Fergus Hume - We go back and cover more details about Fergus Hume and his best selling The Mystery of a Hansom Cab.

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More Fergus Hume - We have talked about Fergus Hume before on the show but a new book about him reveals a lot more about how his massive best seller The Mystery of a Hansom Cab came into being and the shifty characters involved in getting it before the public.

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How Do You Pronounce Istanbul? - It's been a hard week and Christine is dropping nonstop malaprops. Thank goodness that Beth is here to pull her up. Between laughter we manage some book reviews.

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Dead Writers in Rehab is a novel but it got Christine thinking about all the naughty things that writers have gotten up to over the ages. Broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin www.oar.org.nz

Queen Mary's biography - James Pope-Hennessy wrote the official biography of Queen Mary but he also kept extensive notes about the people who gave personal information and what they told him off the record. Published 60 years later they make fascinating reading of a time when people still sort of knew their place.

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The Pigeon In The Library - Why is there a pigeon in the Library? Is he some kind of birdie bookworm? or just lost. Beth and Christine talk about the big issues including what books we should be reading.

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