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Something for the summer, Susan Budd

Posted on December 26, 1999 by NZ Books

Throwing Stones Gwenyth Perry Bookcaster Press, $20.00, ISBN 0 473 05654 2 Throwing Stones is a romantic novel for the thinking woman, or at the very least the keen member of a book club, it offers the sort of escapist…

Tagged with: Beryl Fletcher, Bookcaster Press, Daphne de Jong, Gwenyth Perry, HarperCollins, Issue 41, Spinifex Press
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…

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

Telling tales, Tessa Barringer

Posted on December 4, 1996 by NZ Books

Black Light Laura Solomon Tandem Press, $24.95 ISBN 0 908884 80 x The Silicon Tongue Beryl Fletcher Spinifex Press, $24.95 ISBN 1 875559 49 3 On the Grapevine Linda Burgess University of Otago Press, $24.95 ISBN 1 877133 12 4…

Tagged with: Beryl Fletcher, Issue 26, Laura Solomon, Linda Burgess, Spinifex Press, Tandem Press, Tessa Barringer, University of Otago Press, Winter 1996
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