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Three heartwarming reads

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Three heartwarming reads

8 April 2025 First published RNZ

Catherine Robertson has three recommendations for cozy, warming books to take your mind off things: The Bookshop Detectives: Tea and Cake and Death (Penguin) by Gareth Ward & Louise Ward; Hastings: A Boy's Own Adventure (Massey University Press) by Dick Frizzell, and The Tear Bottle written and published by Annemarie Jutel.