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A rather slippery flower, David Eggleton

The Frangipani is Dead: Contemporary Pacific Art in New Zealand Karen Stevenson Huia, $60.00, ISBN 976189693251 “The Frangipani is Dead” is a curious phrase to use as a title for a survey of contemporary Pacific art in New Zealand. Actually,

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Poem – James Brown

Long shadows She loses her virginity down the garden, in the onion weed under the crabapple. She leaves town for the city; reappears on national TV. The freckle astride her left breast is a partially developed third nipple, she explains,

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Myth and reality, David Colquhoun

Lovelock  James McNeish Vintage, $36.99, ISBN 9781869791230 Jack Lovelock. No other New Zealand sporting star has had so much written about him, in so many different ways. There have now been three biographical studies. His journals have been published, and

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Unpretty lives, Alison Gray

Trust: A True Story of Women and Gangs Pip Desmond Random House, $39.99, ISBN 9781869792435 This is a brave book in a number of ways. The women who have contributed are brave. Their stories are not pretty; their present lives

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Back in Gloriavale, Susan Pearce

Sins of the Fathers: The Long Shadow of a Religious Cult Fleur Beale Longacre Press, $29.99, ISBN 9781877460302 At 27 Philip Cooper left the conservative Christian community ruled by his bullying, monomaniacal father, Neville Cooper. He left behind his wife

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To hell and gone, down there, Jane Westaway

Zone of the Marvellous: In Search of the Antipodes Martin Edmond Auckland University Press, $34.99, ISBN 9781869404475 Anna Kavan’s New Zealand: A Pacific Interlude in a Turbulent Life Jennifer Sturm (ed) Vintage, $36.99, ISBN 9781869791339 Passageways: The Story of a

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Paging through, Barbara Murison

All This and a Bookshop Too  Dorothy Butler Penguin Books, $40.00, ISBN 9780143011651 For anyone involved with books for children and young people in this country, All This and a Bookshop Too is not just a book one would like

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