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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Team podcast

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Speaker 1: from News Talks at me.

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Speaker 2: Now it's time to get your book picture. This weekend,

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Speaker 2: Kathy Rains has two great reads for us, starting off

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Speaker 2: with the first New Zealand published book to hit number

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Speaker 2: one in twenty twenty five. And this won't come as

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Speaker 2: a great surprise, Catherine. It is Catherine Chidgy's latest tell

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Speaker 2: us about the Book of Guilt.

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Speaker 3: It's fantastic, is what I'm going to start out saying.

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Speaker 3: But it's sived in the nineteen seventies and it follows

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Speaker 3: these three brothers who are living in a care home

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Speaker 3: in the New Forest, and they have these desires and

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Speaker 3: hopes and there triplets. They're Vincent, William and Lawrence. And

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Speaker 3: they've lived in a place called Scott House, named after

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Speaker 3: the explorer, since birth. And they're part of this project

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Speaker 3: called the Sycamore Project, which is this government funded scheme

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Speaker 3: to monitor particular children. And the boys are cared by

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Speaker 3: three mothers named Morning, Afternoon and Night Mother, and their

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Speaker 3: actions are monitored and their dreams are recorded in a

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Speaker 3: book and mister Menas are noted in the Book of Guilt.

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Speaker 3: And other children live in different sycamore homes and not

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Speaker 3: all as it seems, and the residents believe that when

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Speaker 3: they reach a certain stage, they are set to this

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Speaker 3: wonderful world of Margate to live life in the big house.

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Speaker 3: And the boys rarely leave this house, but they have

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Speaker 3: the odd visit to the village and they meet this

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Speaker 3: mister Webb, the local baker, and he slips up and

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Speaker 3: he says something that he shouldn't have, and slowly the

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Speaker 3: boys start to see the cracks in their everyday lives

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Speaker 3: in the facade that there's life, and there's these links

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Speaker 3: to some very dark historical events and a sanity and

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Speaker 3: obsession of experts and governments to create these better societies.

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Speaker 3: And the Book of gil is quite shocking in this

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Speaker 3: and it has this very almost creepy, unsettling feeling as

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Speaker 3: the story unfolds, and it is brilliantly written and it

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Speaker 3: weaves you into this spellbinding tale and expiration of this

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Speaker 3: really interesting world where lives, some lives are less ullied

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Speaker 3: than others. And couldn't recommend it highly more highly?

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Speaker 2: Yeah that sounds so good. Cathinigg is incredible, so yeah,

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Speaker 2: not surprised to hear that this is amazing but the

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Speaker 2: Book of Guilt is out now and number one, the

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Speaker 2: first New Zealan published book at number one this year,

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Speaker 2: which is a real achievement. Next up, Nightshade by Michael Conley.

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Speaker 3: So in this you meet a new protagonist La County Sheriff,

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Speaker 3: a guy called Detective Stillwell, and he was normally a

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Speaker 3: homicide detective on the mainland and then he's been sent

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Speaker 3: to this very rustic Catalina Island, and so you get

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Speaker 3: this backdrop of this island and following Detective Stillwell who's

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Speaker 3: been exiled effectively to this Cataline Island after pursuing a

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Speaker 3: close case that involved police corruption. But however, when he's

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Speaker 3: there on Catalina and these routine duties, he discovers this

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Speaker 3: woman's body in the harbor and it starts to draw

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Speaker 3: him into this very complex investigation, and he's flacing a

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Speaker 3: lot of criticism for his past mistakes, and his captain

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Speaker 3: actually ends up assigning this to his arch enemy and

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Speaker 3: he's instead sort of pushed off to poaching and stolen

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Speaker 3: statue cases, and he's determined to get back involved in

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Speaker 3: this case and find a lead, and he ends up

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Speaker 3: pursuing it and it ends up in some very unpredictable situations.

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Speaker 3: So you get this very dangerous storeline and this opportunity,

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Speaker 3: you know, to meet this new protagonist from Michael Connolly,

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Speaker 3: and he's a really complicated hero and he's this dogged

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Speaker 3: determination and moral center. And I think that fans of

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Speaker 3: Harry Bosh, who's Connolly's main character, will really enjoy this.

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Speaker 3: And he's planted some really good sort of hooks for

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Speaker 3: an ongoing series, and if he carries on with us,

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Speaker 3: I think it'll be very very good.

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Speaker 2: Nice, Okay. Cool. So that's Nightshade by Michael Connelly, Catherine's

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Speaker 2: first book, the Book of Guilt by Catherine Chidgee, and

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Speaker 2: both of those books will be on our website. Don't

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