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Cooking, droning and drowning, Robin Corney
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
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Less orchid, more snapdragon Max Cryer
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:…
Tagged with: Angela D’Audney, Issue 54, Max Cryer, Nicky Pellegrino, Penguin, Winter 2001
Posted in Autobiography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Autobiography, Non-fiction, Review