Nine to Noon: Best Books of 2010

25 Jan 2011

If you've read your summer reading list and need new book recommendations from trusted sources then you're in luck. This week Radio New Zealand National's Nine to Noon programme will host book fans who will share their best reads of 2010.

Each interview will play about 10.30am

Monday 24 January
Ralph McAllister's best books of 2010

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
Published by The Dial Press
9780385341004 
The Past Awaits
 by Vincent Ward
Craig Potton Publishing
9781877517310
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zuit
by David Mtchell
Published by Hodder and Stoughton
9781400065455 

Tuesday 25 January
Louise O’Brien's best books of 2010

Little Bird of Heaven
by Joyce Carol Oates
Published by Fourth Estate
9780007342549
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
by David Mitchell
Published by Sceptre
9781400065455
Luka and the Fire of Life
by Salman Rushdie
Published by Jonathan Cape
9780679463368 
Sex and Stravinsky
by Barbara Trapido
Published by Bloomsbury
9781408809815
 

The Hand that First Held Mine
by Maggie O'Farrell
Published by Headline Review
9780547423180

Winner of a 2010 Costa Award


Wednesday 26 January
Graham Beattie's best books of 2010

The Leopard
by Jo Nesbo (Norwegian crime fiction)
Published by Harvill Secker $49.99
9781846554001
  A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush
by Eric Newby
originally published 1958 - now reissued by Harper Press $28.99
9780002154000 
Gino’s Pasta - Everything you need to cook the Italian way
by Gino D'Acampo
Published by $49.99
9781856269759
Brideshead Abbreviated -The digested read of the 20th Century
by John Crace
Published by Random House $39.99
9781905211555


Thursday 27 January
Mary McCallum's best books of 2010

Katherine Mansfield The Storyteller
by Kathleeen Jones
Published by Penguin
9780748643547  
Ephraim's Eyes
by Bryan Walpert
Published by Pewter Rose Press
9780956005328 

How the Land Lies
by Pat White
Published by Victoria University Press
9780864736383
These I Have Loved
edited by Harvey McQueen
Published by Steele Roberts
9781877577093
Freedom
by Jonathan Frantzen
Published by 4th Estate
9780007269754


Friday 28 January
John McIntyre of The Children’s Bookshop in Wellington will share his best books of 2010.
 

Mirror 
by Jeannie Baker
Published by Walker  Books 
9781406309140
Scat
by Carl Hiassen     
Published by Orion  
9781444000597
House |
by Aleksandra Machwiak     
Illustrated by Daniel Mzielinski              
Published by Gecko     
9781877467660
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