About BookieMonster

Welcome to BookieMonster – Book blog, books for sale, book reviews and more!

Dean and Ngaire started BookieMonster in March 2007 to sell awesome new and secondhand books on Trade Me. We’ve worked very hard to build our reputation for good books and good service. We sell a mixture of fiction and non-fiction and our ever-changing selection of BookieMonster Recommended Reads!  Our TradeMe feedback is your guarantee of great service and great books.

In 2009 Ngaire started this BookieMonster blog so she could write about the things she loves the most – Mr (Dean) Monster, books and kittys. Mostly she writes about books. Book reviews, book links, interesting books stuff, book festivals (particularly in New Zealand) and book-related interviews.

Rachel joined us in 2010, reviewing and writing for the blog.

You can read our Review Policy here.

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The BookieMonster Team

Ngaire has been a book lover from a young age. She has a diverse range of favourite authors from Terry Pratchett to Janet Frame to Margaret Atwood to Kazuo Ishiguro. She thinks “Leader of the Pack” by The Shangri-Las is the best pop song ever written and The Empire Strikes Back is the best movie ever made. She is a future crazy old cat lady. She is the voice of BookieMonster and also tweets @BookieMonsterNZ.

Dean takes care of the operational side of our book selling. His particular book interest is in military non-fiction, and in his spare time he’s an avid model-maker. You can check his blog out at www.militarymodels.co.nz

Blimpy was the 1st Evah BookieMonster Kitteh. She was a grumpy, old, slightly senile kitteh with bad teeth who was living it rough on the streets until she found her forever home with the BookieMonsters. Sadly Blimpy passed away on the morning of March 30, 2010. You can read her story here.

Kittie is BookieMonster Kitteh the 2nd. She is another rescue cat who was unexpectedly in need of a home and so came to us. Her likes are sleeping, catnip, eating, catnip, chasing lasers, catnip, fighting with mousie, catnip and not doing what she’s told. Her dislikes are doing what she’s told and going to rehab for her catnip problem.

Rachel is New Zealand’s greatest investigative craft journalist and official BookieMonster henchperson. Rachel likes to talk about herself on the internet. Official Jambassador. For japes and jammy goodness you can follow Rachel on twitter at @RachelRayner.