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Book pileExpand your reading horizons in 2010

Booklists

Why not try some different and varied reading in 2010? Cross into adult fiction, try some biographies or some mystery, murder and mayhem! There's skinny and quick options, and spies and adventure too.

Posted on 14/01/10

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Marcus ChownScience is 'scary, fun, mind-blowing'

Authors

"The universe we live in is really, really amazingly weird, stranger than anything that we could possibly have invented". So says Marcus Chown, science writer. Try his quiz about the universe and find out how true this is.

Posted 19/01/10

BooksThe best reads of 2009

Competition

The winners of the Christchurch City Libraries Best and Worst of 2009 competition have been found! Read what others said about their favourite books for 2009 and send us your reviews all summer long.

Posted 21/12/09

Charlotte TrevellaWriting a lifetime habit for best teen poet

Poetry

Charlotte Trevella has been writing for years - and her persistence at honing her talent has won her the title of New Zealand's best teen poet. She's also just published her first book of poems, Because Paradise.

Updated 15/09/09

WinnersWinning entry written in minutes

Poetry

New Zealand's best lyric poem writer Sammy Hickson tells The Pulse about the experience of recording with Jason Kerrison, how she got her own publicist and how writing the winning entry took a matter of minutes.

Posted on 11/09/09