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Read our reports from the Auckland Writers and Readers Festival.
Download Overdrive Audiobooks
OverDrive is a digital media platform which allows library customers to download audiobooks to their personal digital audio device - such MP3 players like iPods. Download fiction and non-fiction titles at any time, there are no late fees as audiobooks self expire.
Get reading recommendations
On the web
- Books and reading premium websites for library members:
- Books & Authors
- Literature Resource Center
- LitFinder
- Novelist Plus
- Short Story Index
- Te Puna
- Books, Literature and Reading
- Web links from our Internet Gateway.
If you like...
Recommended books and authors in different styles and genres: great for exploring the world of books.
Literary Prizes
For the award-winning books of the year.
- New Zealand Post Book Awards finalists and Best First Book Award winners were announced Tuesday 22 June 2010.
- Nebula Awards for Science Fiction & Fantasy were announced mid May.
Best lists
Best Reads of 2009: read what customers and library staff had to say about the best books of 2009.
Check out our recommended reading for each year plus a few round-ups from other sources such as:
- 1000 novels everyone must read
- Best novels for the past 25 years
- The Telegraph 110 best books
- 100 best novels of the 20th Century
- 100 Most meaningful books of all time
Keep up to date with book news
- Christchurch City Libraries' blog
- Keeping you in touch with our world, sharing views, opinions and ideas on reading, listening and watching.
- Email newsletters
- Sign up for the e-list from your library - new titles, tips and library news.
- New titles
- Get a list of the latest titles in our libraries each month either online or by email, or subscribe to our weekly RSS feeds.
- Read the book - then see the film
- Do you want to read a book before you see the film rather than the other way around? If so, we've gathered together some of the movies coming up that are based on books so that you can get in first.
- Books made into film and television
- Our listing of books made into movies and spin-offs from TV shows.
Events
Every year we send librarians to book events around the country to bring you reports and interviews.
Auckland Writers and Readers Festival 2010- New Zealand Post Writers and Readers Week (Wellington) 2010
- Words on Wheels 2009
- Press Christchurch Readers and Writers Festival 2008
- Storylines (Christchurch) 2008
Events at Christchurch City Libraries
Articles
- Escape to another world, the power of imagination
- Our imagination has an amazing ability to take us from the routines of everyday life to a different place from where we emerge energised, curious, inspired, transformed, entertained.
- How to speak yachtie
- Sarah Ell tells us about her book, Shoot the Breeze; a useful introduction to what can be a strange-sounding and colourful world for landlubbers.
People
Interviews and short biographies of authors, poets and journalists etc.
Poetry
Resources and links for poetry-lovers.
