Monday, 26 July 2021, 9:59 am
Celebrating 26 years of asking Kiwi readers to vote for
their favourite books, Irish actor turned writer Lucinda
Riley is newly crowned at number one with her series
The
Seven Sisters in the 2021 Whitcoulls Top 100 Books List,
announced today (Monday 26 July.)
This is a real vote
of confidence for Riley’s hugely popular adventure legends
and the first time in three years that J. K. Rowling’s
phenomenal
Harry Potter
Harry has
been a consistent favourite with Kiwi readers for close to
20 years.
Twenty percent of the books on the list are
serial novels, which suggests Kiwi readers are voraciously
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The Shoeshine column is the
NBR’s longest-running feature. It was launched during the euphoria leading up to the October 1987 sharemarket crash, which hit New Zealand harder than most.
It was inspired by the legendary story about how, in the late summer of 1929, a shoeshine boy gave stock tips to Joseph Kennedy, a financier and father of John F Kennedy. Being a wise investor, Kennedy thought, “If shoeshine boys are giving stock tips, then it’s time to get out of the market.”
Kennedy made a killing by selling his stocks before Wall Street collapsed in October 1929, eventually leading to the Great Depression of the 1930s.
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