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Blackwell Bugle - 2023 Summer Selection

Winter gets all the credit as the reading season but for me, the longer days of summer usually see me turning more pages. 


With the arrival of summer also comes a proliferation of summer reading guides. These guides generally contain hundreds of book recommendations focusing on new releases, often untested by readers.


Before I was a bookseller, I found these guides helpful, but also that that often added stress to my reading life and ever expanding TBR (to-be-read) list. 

So in an effort to relieve you of any such pressure we’ve kept a strict limit of two dozen book recommendations, along with a few puzzles, games and nifty stationery items.

Either I or someone else at Mrs Blackwell’s Village Bookshop read and loved each of these books during the course of the year. They’re not all brand-new releases; in fact most aren't, and they’re endorsed purely by our love for them.

For this reason, it’s a little like a pick-and-mix lolly bag from the dairy of your childhood but we hope you’ll tolerate a Lego Fact book alongside Ann Patchett, some unique nature writing and a series of Kiwi cookbooks originally published in the 1970s.

We hope this summer brings you some happy and fulfilling reading hours; however many or few that number looks like to you, you’ll savour every one of them!

- Mrs Blackwell

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Ann Patchett

Tom Lake
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Hernan Diaz

Trust
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Tilly Pamment

Plain Cake Appreciation Society
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Leah Evans

Hands in the Dirt
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Wendy Morgan

Who Made All The Pies?
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Simon Barnes

Year of Sitting Dangerously
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Shaun Barnett

Across The Pass: NZ Tramping Writing
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Liv Sisson

Fungi of Aotearoa
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Anne Cakebread

Teach Your Dog Maori
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Cristina Sanders

Mrs Jewell & the Wreck of the General Grant
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Seishi Yokomizo

Village of Eight Graves
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Dr Andrea Graves

What Your Chickens Want You To Know
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Digby Law

Digby Law’s Pickle and Chutney Cook
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Digby Law

Digby Law’s Vegetables Cookbook
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Laurence King

World of Agatha Christie
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Laurence King

Agatha Christie Playing Cards
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Esterbrook

Butterfly Book Holder - Teal
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Esterbrook

Bee Page Holder
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Esterbrook

Estie Botanical - Gold Trim
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Simon Hugo

Big Book of LEGO Facts
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Leuchtturm1917

Pen Loop Vanilla
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J.A.B. Leatherworks

Olive Field Notes Cover
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Leuchtturm1917

Drehgriffel Nr. 1 - Olive
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Mrs Blackwell Brand

Wonderful Wairarapa Colouring Set
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Ilya Milstein

Agatha Christie Bingo
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Chartwell Books

My Mother's Life
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Chartwell Books

My Father's Life.
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Chartwell Books

My Grandfather's Life
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Jigsaw Puzzle

World of Hercule Poirot: 1000 Jigsaw
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