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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…

Tagged with: Autumn 2003, Black Swan, Greg Billington, HarperCollins, Heather Marshall, Issue 61, Nicky Pellegrino, Reed, Robin Corney
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review

Light reading, dark lives, Margie Thomson

Posted on September 1, 2002 by NZ Books

The Denniston Rose Jenny Pattrick Black Swan, $26.95, ISBN 1869415612 This highly readable historical novel has already had a big thumbs-up from readers, and it’s not hard to understand why. It’s a darkly engaging story that almost constitutes a new…

Tagged with: Black Swan, Issue 59, Jenny Pattrick, Margie Thomson, Spring 2002
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review

Love and other cheeses, Susan Budd

Posted on December 1, 2001 by NZ Books

Blessed Are Sarah-Kate Lynch Black Swan, $26.95, ISBN 1869414977 Aromantic comedy with the WOW factor, Blessed Are makes you laugh, makes you cry and tells you everything you ever wanted to know, and more, about cheese-making. Coolarney House, where Joseph…

Tagged with: Black Swan, Issue 56, Sarah-Kate Lynch, Summer 2001, Susan Budd
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review

Good (wo)men wanted Susan Budd

Posted on September 1, 1999 by NZ Books

Floating Lines Denis Baker David Ling, $24.95, ISBN 0908990685 Four Ways to be a Woman Sue Reidy Black Swan, $24.95, ISBN 0552996971 Denis Baker’s first collection of short stories and Sue Reidy’s second novel both examine the roles into…

Tagged with: Black Swan, David Ling, Denis Baker, Issue 47, March 2001, Sue Reidy, Susan Budd
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, Short stories

The right, the bright and the light, Margo White

Posted on June 1, 1999 by NZ Books

Belief Stephanie Johnson Vintage, $24.95, ISBN 1869414365 Three Pretty Widows Barbara Else Vintage, $24.95, ISBN 1869414403 Finding Tom Connor Sarah-Kate Lynch Black Swan, $24.95, ISBN 1869414314 It was a pleasure to find that the author of The Heart’s Wild…

Tagged with: Barbara Else, Black Swan, December 2000, Issue 46, Margo White, Sarah-Kate Lynch, Stephanie Johnson, Vintage
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review

Thin issues, rich wit, a gang and a psychopath, Heather Murray

Posted on June 8, 1997 by NZ Books

The Journey Home Cathie Dunsford Spinifex Press Pty Ltd (Australia), $24.95, ISBN 1 875559 54 X Dr Beale’s Wednesday Liz Falkner Arrow, Random House, $17.95, ISBN 1 86941 297 4 The Visitation Sue Reidy Black Swan, $19.95, ISBN 0 552 99696…

Tagged with: Arrow, Black Swan, Bronwyn Tate, Cathie Dunsford, Heather Murray, Issue 28, Laura Solomon, Liz Falkner, Otago University Press, Random House, Spinifex Press, Sue Reidy, Summer 1997, Tandem Press
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review