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Slipping through the net of art history, Christina Barton

Don Peebles: The Harmony at Opposites Justin Paton Robert McDougall Art Gallery & Hazard Press $34.95 ISBN 1 877161 00 4 Of the public art galleries in New Zealand, the Robert McDougall Art Gallery in Christchurch has a commendable record

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Digging for treasure, Richard Smith

Buried Ships: Poems new and unpublished Rob Jackaman Hazard Press $24.95 ISBN 0 90879096 1 There is treasure to be found within the 144 pages of Buried Ships, though, as the subterranean cover by Bing Dawe seems to suggest, some

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Culling the China disease, Chris Elder

The Foreign Expert: A New Zealand Journalist in China Mervyn Cull Hazard Press $24.95 ISBN 1 877161 03 9 China’s English-language press is full of the unexpected. It ranges from unlooked-for revelations (my favourite is a story which read, from

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Always some bastard has to spoil it, Kate Camp

Anzac Day Kevin Ireland Hazard Press, $19.95 ISBN 087716111 X The title of Kevin Ireland’s selected poems, Anzac Day, suggested to me a rather bloke’s, public kind of poetry, a poetry of momentous occasions with perhaps a hint of speechifying.

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Hazards in the Labyrinth, Ingrid Horrocks

Unwinding the Labyrinth Diana Neutze Hazard Press, $19.95 ISBN 1 877161 08 X suicide season Mike Minehan Hazard Press, $19.95 ISBN o 908790 97 X Dividing the Light John Allison Hazard Press, $19.95 ISBN 1 877161 05 5 The Ambiguous

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Graphic transitions, Elva Bett

Flowers into Landscape – Margaret Stoddart 1865-1934 Julie King Hazard Press, $39.95, ISBN 1 877161 13 6 Jane Evans John Coley Hazard Press, $49.95, ISBN 1 877161 16 0 Flowers into Landscape – Margaret Stoddart 1865-1934 is a scholarly treatise,

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Not the Great Christchurch Mystery Novel, Bernard Carpinter

Click Ray Prebble Hazard Press $19.95 ISBN 1 877161 10 1 The Dancing Man Edmund Bohan Hazard Press $19.95 ISBN 1 877161 14 4 Two murder stories set in my home town, Christchurch. Not one of the world’s more renowned

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At last, some mayhem, Howard Warner

Mr Halliday and the Circus Master James McNeish David Ling, $19.95, ISBN 0 908990 38 3 The Opawa Affair Edmund Bohan Hazard Press, $19.95, ISBN 0 908790 61 9 Payday in Saudi Selwyn Carson Arrow, $17.95, ISBN 1 86941 285

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Imperfect sex, seamless Fat Janet Hughes

Leaving Carol Sinclair Hazard Press, $19.95, ISBN 0 908790 89 9 Fat Raewyn Alexander Penguin, $24.95, ISBN 0 140 26037 4 Sailing Through the Amber Susan Hancock Black Pepper, $19.95, ISBN 1 876044 02 0 A first novel reflects not

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Fantastic account, Heather Murray

Tasman’s Lay Peter Hawes Hazard Press, $24.95 ISBN 0 908790 52 X Tin Nimbus Geoff Cochrane Victoria University Press, $24.95 ISBN 0 86473 279 1 The Warrior Queen Barbara Else Godwit Publishing, $19.95, ISBN 0 908877 61 7 Remains of

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