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Cooking, droning and drowning, Robin Corney

Posted on March 1, 2003 by NZ Books

Delicious  Nicky Pellegrino Black Swan, $26.95, ISBN 1869415582 Death of a Conscience  Heather Marshall HarperCollins, $21.99, ISBN 869504569 Oyster Catcher  Greg Billington Reed, $29.95, ISBN 0790009013 Nicky Pellegrino’s Delicious is a debut novel that draws in her own background (Italian…

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Less orchid, more snapdragon Max Cryer

Posted on June 1, 2001 by NZ Books

Angela: A Wonderful Life Angela D’Audney and Nicky Pellegrino Penguin, $27.95, ISBN 0143018116 In spite of the desperate tabloid-celebrity culture currently fashionable, a New Zealand show-biz biography would seem to be dodgy commercial territory. Biographies of sportsmen: yes. Of politicians:…

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