Welcome back to Papercuts, our monthly books podcast hosted by Louisa Kasza, Jenna Todd and Kiran Dass.

As always, you can email us at [email protected] and follow us on Twitter and Instagram: @papercutspod and a big thanks to The Spinoff and the Mātātuhi Foundation for their support.

Book News

AWF's An Evening with Arundhati Roy - 17th July

http://www.writersfestival.co.nz/news/Page1/an-evening-with-arundhati-roy/  

PANZ Book Design Awards - 25th July

http://www.bookdesignawards.co.nz/2019-shortlist/ 

Women's Prize for Fiction 2019

An American Marriage - Tayari Jones

Faber & Faber: The Untold Story - Toby Faber

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=12237604 

AWF Podcast 

http://www.writersfestival.co.nz/look-and-listen/podcasts/Page3/renee-a-writing-life/  

Book Reviews

Jenna - Celestial Bodies by Jokha Alharti - Winner of the 2019 International Booker Prize

Kiran - The Years by Annie Ernaux (with a mention of Saltwater by Jessica Andrews)

Louisa - Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli

Not Books

Jenna - Chernobyl (HBO)

Kiran - Hildur Guðnadóttir and Chris Watson (composer & field recorder for Chernobyl) 

Louisa - The Lunatics (Netflix)

The TBR Pile

Jenna - The Years by Annie Ernaux, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark, Furious Hours by Casey Cep

Kiran - The Man Who Saw Everything by Deborah Levy (August), Sweet Home by Wendy Erskine, Being Various ed. by Lucy Caldwell

Louisa - Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld

Louisa and Jenna visited Browsers Secondhand Bookstore in Hamilton.

Thank you to The Spinoff, Tina and the Matatuhi Foundaton. 

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