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    Papercuts podcast: Prescient books for tumultuous times

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    July 27, 2020
    The Papercuts team are finally back in The Spinoff studio this month with their usual winning recipe of book news, book recommendations, not books and their ever-growing ‘TBR’ piles.
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    The Unity Books bestseller chart for the week ending May 22

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    May 22, 2020
    The only published and available best-selling indie book chart in New Zealand is the top 10 sales list recorded every week at Unity Books’ stores in High St, Auckland, and Willis St, Wellington.
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    Fever dream: Pip Adam on Bae Suah and the art of translation

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    April 23, 2020
    When I was at primary school I was given a tiny doll in a match box. On the matchbox were printed the words Mon Ami. “It means ‘my friend’,” explained my next-door neighbour who was at high school and probably the coolest person I knew.
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    Books podcast: Papercuts under lockdown

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    April 5, 2020
    Welcome back to Papercuts, our monthly books podcast hosted by Louisa Kasza, Jenna Todd and Kiran Dass. Well, we’ve all said we wish we had more time to read and now we’ve got what we wished for. Jenna, Kiran and Louisa delve into some book news (that’s not too heavy for our weary heads), book...