Books Uncovered

KKKKiwi Christmas - We celebrate Christmas with some very Kiwi Christmas songs and don't worry Beth's favorite Fred Dagg's Star of Wonder is in the mix. Merry Christmas from The Athenaeum Library

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Greece is the Word - We cover a little of the twists and turns of the modern day Greek royal family and then into the serious business of new books.

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It's starting to read a lot like Christmas - All the big name authors are rushing out books for the Christmas market and the Athenaeum has them all: Lee Child, John Grisham, Michael Connelly, David Baldacci, the list goes on and on

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Dodgy Footpaths and Book Reviews -Christine has a bone to pick over the state of Dunedin's footpaths but Beth just wants to know about all the new books

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Dunedin Life in 1857 - Everyone interested in early Dunedin will know of the book The Old Identities which was written by early settler James Barr but for us his true claim to fame is being one of the group who organized a series of lectures which gave the Athenaeum Library & Mechanic's Institute the financial means to relaunch in 1859. Also Christine has two large piles of new books to try and review before time is up.

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We love K M - We do love KM and by KM we mean Katherine Mansfield. We talk about how reading NZ short stories aloud has deepened our appreciation of them and Beth gives us a little sample by reading some of The Doll's House for us (bliss). Also heaps of new books.

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Finding Roderick Finlayson - One of the delights of our Tuesday lunch time NZ Short Story readings is finding forgotten authors. Roderick Finlayson was just as important as Frank Sargeson in the push for New Zealanders to write as New Zealanders but over time he has been forgotten. We talk about him in this show and suggest him as someone worth studying for any budding literary academics. Also some new books to review.

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Table Commodities - Learn of the great Dunedin butter shortage of 1919 when crowds of people thronged outside butter factories to buy rationed supplies. So who did get the butter? Plus new book reviews.

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Small Libraries of NZ - We bid goodbye to Ben Franklin - hear how he tried to kill a turkey with electricity! Details of

the Naseby Athenaeum, the Outram Public Library and Pukehiki Public Library on Highcliff

Road - small libraries that still matter to their communities. And last of all we review some

new books!

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