Speaking Volumes Review Schedule - April 2010

The following books are scheduled for review on the Nine to Noon Show, Radio New Zealand National, weekday mornings at 10.30am. The Speaking Volumes reviews on this show are facilitated by Booksellers NZ.

Books for review are independently selected and assigned to reviewers by the Nine to Noon team, and may be submitted by any member of Booksellers NZ.

Contact Anna Hutchison (04 815 8363) at Booksellers NZ for more information on how to submit a title.

Publishers have advised that all books listed in the month below are expected to be in bookstores by the date of review. Booksellers NZ makes every effort to ensure details are correct. Review dates may, however, be subject to change.

After the live broadcast, podcasts of the reviews below are available from the Radio NZ website, by clicking on each book title below, care of Radio NZ National (www.radionz.co.nz).

DATE		BOOK DETAILS	REVIEWER
1 April		House Rules Jodi Picoult Allen & Unwin 9781742373652 $38.99	Sonja de Freiz
2 April		Good Friday
5 April		Easter Monday
6 April		Still Alice Lisa Genova Simon & Schuster (Penguin) 9781921470271 $29.00	Carole Beu
7 April		The Limping Man Maurice Gee Puffin (Penguin) 9780143305163 $19.99	Phil Vine
8 April		Under the Huang Jiao Tree Jane Carswell Transit Lounge (Greene-Phoenix) 9780980571721 $39.99	Mary McCallum
9 April		Children’s Book Review	John McIntyre
12 April		Murder at Mansfield Park Lynn Shepherd Allen & Unwin 9781742373478 $35.00	Penny Ashton
13 April		Blueeyedboy Joanna Harris Doubleday UK (Random House) 9780385609517 $39.99	Ralph McAllister
14 April		Steal Away Boy: The Selected Poems of David Mitchell David Mitchell, Martin Edmond and Nigel Roberts Auckland University Press 9781869404598 $34.99	Laura Kroetsch
15 April		The Lake Shore Limited Sue Miller Bloomsbury (Allen & Unwin) 9781408807330 $38.99	Jane Westaway
16 April		No Fretful Sleeper: A Life of Bill Pearson Paul Millar Auckland University Press 9781869404192 $59.99	Harry Broad
19 April		Angelology Danielle Trussoni Michael Joseph (Penguin) 9780718155582 $39.00	Louise O’Brien
20 April		36 Arguments for the Existence of God Rebecca Goldstein Atlantic (Allen & Unwin) $35.00 9781848871533	Phil Smith
21 April		Recipe for Life Nicky Pellegrino Orion (Hachette) 9781409100904 $38.99	Graham Beattie
22 April		The Victims of Lightning Bill Manhire Victoria University Press 9780864736222 $25.00	Harry Ricketts
23 April		Children’s Book Review	John McIntyre
26 April		Every Day in Tuscany Frances Mayes Bantam Australia (Random House) 9781863256766 $42.99	David Hill
27 April		Bleed for Me Michael Robotham Little, Brown (Hachette) 9781847442192 $32.99	Emma Hart
28 April		The Life of Irene Nemirovsky Lienhardt Philipponnat Chatto & Windus (Random House) 9780701182892 $39.99	John King
29 April		Bad Ideas: An Arresting History of our Inventions Robert Winston Bantam Press (Random House) 9780593060285 $45.00	Crystal Beavis
30 April		Shear Hard Work: A History of New Zealand Shearing Hazel Riseborough Auckland University Press 9781869404536 $45.00	Don Rood