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Strangers in a strange land, Chris Else

A Spider-Web Season and The Transfer Station  Russell Haley Hazard Press, $24.95, ISBN 1877161799   Things fall apart, the centre cannot hold …” This line from Yeats is the epigraph to Russell Haley’s first book, The Walled Garden (1972). It

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Difficult terrain, John McCrystal

To Each His Own Philip Temple Hazard Press, $24.95, ISBN 1 877161 51 9 At the limits of the mellow plain of memory, there stands for each of us a mountain range of sorts, glittering with a hostility that repels

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Swimming with the tide, Sally Sutton

The Sound of her Body Laurence Fearnley Hazard Press, $16.95, ISBN 1 877161 25 X Night Swimming Emma Neale Vintage, $24.95, ISBN 1 86941 376 8 Spinners Anthony McCarten Vintage, $24.95, ISBN 1 86941 355 5 The American poet Randall

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Endurance and beyond, Chris Orsman

Shackleton’s Captain: a Biography of Frank Worsley John Bell Thomson Hazard Press, $49.95, ISBN 1 877161 40 3 In April this year a major exhibition, entitled “The Endurance: Shackleton’s Legendary Antarctic Expedition”, opened at the American Museum of Natural History in

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Clayton’s books? Denis Welch

America on Five Bullets a Day Raybon Kan Hodder Moa Beckett, $29.95, ISBN 1 86958 656 5 Just Walking the Dogs Joe Bennett Hazard Press, $16.95, ISBN 1 877161 49 7 Yin and Tonic Renée Random House, $29.95, ISBN 1

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From the sin bin, Bernard Carpinter

The Cassino Legacy Michael Wall Penguin, $19.95, ISBN 0140288368 Cardinal Sins Michael Wall HarperCollins, $19.95, ISBN 1869503619 Michael Wall wants to see his name on the airport bookshelves of the world. He is making serious and professional efforts to write,

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The facts of lives, Bryan Gilling

Set in a Long Place: A Life from North to South Maurice Andrew Hazard Press, $29.95, ISBN 1877161586   Sorry to Bother You, Doctor Shirley Ferguson Cape Catley, $27.95, ISBN 0908561806 Bridging the Centuries Valerie Cowan Cape Catley, $24.95, ISBN

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Modern, John Campbell

Full Circle: A Modern Morality Tale Bob Jones Hazard Press, $24.95, ISBN 1877161764   Modern Morality Tale.” Let’s begin with those  words.  And of those words, there’s one in particular I really want you to think about: ”Modern”. “Modern” is a

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Thank God for Harvey, Helen Beaglehole

Window Licking in the City of Love  Jennifer Maxwell Flamingo, $24.95, ISBN 4 86950 348 X Table at Sunset Lodge Vonnie Alexander Quoin Press, $24.95, ISBN 1 877163 25 2 Butterfly Mind Gwyneth Perry Bookcaster Press, $20.00, ISBN 0 473

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Thriller lite, Bernard Carpinter

Friendly Fire Michael Wall Penguin, $18.95 ISBN 0 14 D27768 4 Taken to the Cleaners Morgan Jones Cape Catley, $19.95 lSBN 0 908561 54 7 Mates Laurie Mantell Hazard Press, $19.95 ISBN 1 877161 33 0   Warning The identity

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