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Anna Woods @annawoodsauthor.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Highlights reel from my book launch. Thanks to my publisher, agent, friends, family, local bookseller and bookish community for making my dream come true.

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Anna Woods @annawoodsauthor.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Reminder: book launch TONIGHT at The Booklover in Milford, 6-7.30pm. Would love to see you there. There will be free wine & cheese. #pukapuka

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Anna Woods @annawoodsauthor.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

My book is out! It’s about many things. I describe it as Girl On The Train meets Grand Designs, but make it literary. Where everyone needs therapy, and maybe a lawyer. For fans of slow burn thrillers and insufferable characters. Or people who love to support debuts #litfic #booksky #pukapuka

Table of books including LIT, by Anna Woods

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Anna Woods @annawoodsauthor.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Interested in some free wine and cheese? Come along to The Booklover to celebrate my book launch! RSVP to books@thebookloveer.co.nz #litfic #pukapuka

Book launch announcement: LIT by Anna Woods, at The Booklover Milford, June 4th 6-7.30pm

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Anna Woods @annawoodsauthor.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

AWF was a banger. In other news, there’s this #litfic #pukapuka

LIT by Anna woods book cover held up against a white background

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Anna Woods @annawoodsauthor.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Having trouble staying up to date on my socials: been busy with book launch stuff. This weekend is AWF though and I’m loving it.

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Anna Woods @annawoodsauthor.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Put your clocks back for the winter, she asks when I’ll be home again.

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Anna Woods @annawoodsauthor.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

CR: The Black Monk, by Charlotte Grimshaw. Only a few chapters in, and already multiple allusions to the fact embedded in the fiction. Intrigued as to where this one goes

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Anna Woods @annawoodsauthor.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Okay booksky, help me choose my next read: The Black Monk, by Charlotte Grimshaw, or Hooked, by Asako Yuzuki? #booksky #litfic

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Anna Woods @annawoodsauthor.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Pleased to say Brawler, by Lauren Groff is living up to my expectations, and makes me want to go write a short story immediately #litfic #booksky

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Anna Woods @annawoodsauthor.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Will just leave this here for anyone who is interested in a slowburn literary suspense novel.

Book cover, LIT by Anna Woods, text reads: he was supposed to be dead. He promised. Cover shows shadowy figure in dark garden. Book is laid on cracked concrete background

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Anna Woods @annawoodsauthor.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

About to start Brawler, by Lauren Groff. Hope it lives up to my wildly high expectations. #litfic #booksky

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Anna Woods @annawoodsauthor.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Picked up Lonely Mouth, by Jacqueline Marley, and it has a banger of an opening chapter #booksky #litfic

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Anna Woods @annawoodsauthor.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Started Flesh, living up to the hype so far. I’ve heard complaints about the lack of interiority, but I’m enjoying the narrative distance. Reminds me of 19th century novels. #booksky #litfic

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Anna Woods @annawoodsauthor.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Good things Come and Go, by Josie Shapiro is a darker turn from her bestselling debut, but I’m here for it #booksky #pukapuka

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Anna Woods @annawoodsauthor.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

CR: Out of the Blue: Essays on Artists from Aotearoa New Zealand 1985-2021, Christina Barton Love me some art history, even if the govt. doesn’t. #booksky #pukapuka

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Anna Woods @annawoodsauthor.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Finished Sight Lines: Women and Art in Aotearoa, by Kirsty Baker. Has sat on my bedside table while I dip into essays over the last few months. Gorgeously produced and full of new artists to discover. #booksky

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Anna Woods @annawoodsauthor.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Current read, the Goldsmith Prize winning novel We Live Here Now, by C. D. Rose, anyone read? #booksky #litfic

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Anna Woods @annawoodsauthor.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Continuing my E. M. Delafield jag with Thank Heaven Fasting. So great. #booksky #litfic

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Anna Woods @annawoodsauthor.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Just bought a book I’m excited to read: Out of the Blue - essays on artists from Aotearoa New Zealand 1985-20121, by Christina Barton. Yay for art history

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Anna Woods @annawoodsauthor.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Happy Halloween #booksky. Wanna know what my spookiest read is? Jane Eyre. Hear me out…

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Anna Woods @annawoodsauthor.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Deep in copyedits for my novel. Who wants to guess how many times I’ve used the word ‘hair’? Anyone? #litfic #booksky

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Anna Woods @annawoodsauthor.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Check out the 250th issue of Landfall, packed full of essays, poetry, fiction and reviews. And a new story by me.

Hand holding up the new issue of landfall journal, with a painting of a tui on the front cover

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Anna Woods @annawoodsauthor.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Currently obsessed with Diary of A Provincial Lady, by E M Delafield. Deadpan English humour. Loved it

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Anna Woods @annawoodsauthor.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Just started I Capture the Castle, by Dodie Smith and already I’m hooked. Love the self deprecating, funny voice. Any Dodie Smith fans out there? #booksky #litfic

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Anna Woods @annawoodsauthor.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Excited to share my new story in takahē and read the other contributions. Weekend reading sorted! #booksky #litfic #pukapuka

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Anna Woods @annawoodsauthor.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Turns out No Good, by Sophie van Waardenberg, was very good indeed, revealing an attention to craft lacking from many contemporary poems. #booksky #poetrysky #pukapuka

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Anna Woods @annawoodsauthor.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

Excited to share my new story with you all, in the new issue of takahē, coming soon!

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Anna Woods @annawoodsauthor.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Happy Poetry Day Aotearoa. I’m celebrating by reading the just released No Good, by the wonderful Sophie van Waardenberg. How about you? #booksky #pukapuka #nzpoetry

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Anna Woods @annawoodsauthor.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

Late to the party, which is very on brand for me, but just finished Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, by Mario Vargas Llosa. Loved the increasingly unhinged radio serials and the backdrop of 1950s of Lima. #booksky #litfic

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Anna Woods @annawoodsauthor.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Started Air, the final book in the elements series, by John Boyne. I’ve really enjoyed the way these novels interconnect, so I’m looking forward to seeing how he brings it all together #booksky #litfic

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Anna Woods @annawoodsauthor.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Gave a school talk to an auditorium full of Y13s today. Was great to see them excited and engaged in the craft exercises. #writersky

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Anna Woods @annawoodsauthor.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

I’m really enjoying Walk Through Walls, Marina Abromović’s memoir of her life and career as a performance artist. Her stories are wild. #booksky

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Anna Woods @annawoodsauthor.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

In a bit of a reading slump. DNF on a book everyone raved about and not sure what to read next?

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Anna Woods @annawoodsauthor.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Really enjoying the food descriptions in Butter. Reminds me of MFK Fisher’s sensuous food writing; an area of life too often overlooked in contemporary fiction. #booksky #litfic

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Anna Woods @annawoodsauthor.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Started Butter, by Asako Yuzuki and there’s a discussion about the size of one of the characters, described as huge, at ahem, 70kgs—which per a quick search is less than the average NZ woman. Love how fiction can give you a glimpse of another culture, without leaving your house. #booksky #litfic

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Anna Woods @annawoodsauthor.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

When did the paper stock of novels become so thin? Started Dream Count, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and not sure if it’s the font (Goudy Oldstyle for my typography nerds) or the stock, but I can see the words on the other side of the page showing through and damn it’s distracting #booksky #litfic

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Anna Woods @annawoodsauthor.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Late to the party, I’ve finally read Audition, by Pip Adam; a book that explodes the idea of what a novel can do. The dialogue-laden first chapter was particularly hypnotic. Woolfian-Frameian genius. Pip is criminally underrated in NZ. I hope the US release gives her the recognition she deserves.

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Anna Woods @annawoodsauthor.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Finished Pale Fire and damn if it isn’t the cleverest novel I’ve ever read. The depth and layering, and in-jokes! Sadly, I can’t see many contemporary readers enjoying such a formally challenging book, and even more depressing, I wonder if it would even have found a publisher today? #booksky #lific

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Anna Woods @annawoodsauthor.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Reading Nakabov’s Pale Fire. He’s so inventive. Modern readers might struggle with the form, but a novel written as commentary on an invented poet’s masterwork is so damn clever. Reminds me a bit of Anne Carson’s Autobiography of Red, wonder if she read Pale Fire? #booksky #lific

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Anna Woods @annawoodsauthor.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Was so engrossed by the Auckland Writers Festival I forgot to post. Never fear, I’ll write a newsletter wrap up, so sign up if you want to read my ramblings (it’s free) Topics may include: silicone body suits, skeletons missing skulls and horror as a literature of resistance eepurl.com/cXlbmX

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Anna Woods @annawoodsauthor.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Excited to start on my Mother’s Day present. Heard so many good things! #booksky #litfic #pukapuka #nzbooks

Hand holding The Book Of Guilt by Catherine Chidgey. Cover shows 50s style graphic of a woman and boy running on a beach

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Anna Woods @annawoodsauthor.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

This absolute beauty by my friend Yvette Thomas is available now in select bookshops and online. Featuring her Caselberg International Prize winning poem, ‘Not What You Wanted’, Ten Thousand Nights is a thoughtful, finely wrought collection. castlestreetpress.com #booksky #poetry #pukapuka

Hand holding up cover of Ten Thousand Nights by Yvette Thomas: black with a blurred prismatic lens detail

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Anna Woods @annawoodsauthor.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Love reading writers on writing. Grab your weekend coffee and settle in

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Anna Woods @annawoodsauthor.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Where are my Patricia Lockwood fans at? I just finished No One Is Talking About This, and I have to talk to someone about it! One of the most beautiful and devastating books I’ve read in a long time #litfic #booksky #poets

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Anna Woods @annawoodsauthor.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

From my newsletter this week. So many sentences I wanted to highlight in Chelsea Girls, but this one felt most prescient #booksky #litfic #poetry

Chelsea Girls, Eileen Myles

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This is one of those books I’ve been aware of for a long time, and I wish I’d read sooner. A queer stream of concious remembering, it paints a very different NYC than Primates. Sex, drugs, art, and poverty are rendered with an aliveness that is impossible to replicate. I knew of Myles as a poet, and this is a poet’s novel: fragmentary and strange. Reading like a book of short stories, it’s crammed full of painful observations. Just check out Myles on Woodstock:

But Jimi Hendrix was the best. It spelled destruction, it was so sour and noble. His Star Spangled Banner was the end of America for me. We were through with it. It was the most ironic end of an empire song any culture ever played for itself.

My favourite read of the month.

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Anna Woods @annawoodsauthor.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Can’t think of a better cyclone read than the cyclonic Chelsea Girls, by Eileen Myles. Often I get frustrated by publishing’s insistence on linear plot-driven narratives, then I read a book like this and my faith in literature is restored. #booksky #litfic #poetry

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Anna Woods @annawoodsauthor.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Reading Chelsea Girls, by Eileen Myles. A poet’s novel; fragmentary and strange and I’m so here for it #litfic #booksky

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Anna Woods @annawoodsauthor.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Stormy tonight in Tāmaki Makaurau, which calls for a cosy read. Currently reading Women Talking, by Miriam Toews, which is excellent, but dark. What’s your go-to #litfic for a rainy evening #booksky?

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Anna Woods @annawoodsauthor.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

So thrilled to attend the launch of my friend Rachel Paris’ new novel, See How They Fall last night. Billed as Succession meets Big Little Lies, this is a debut to watch. #booksky #nzbooks

A stack of books, See How They Fall, by Rachel Paris, in a brick-lined room.

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