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Chronicler of our ‘provincial’ past, Lawrence Jones

Posted on October 1, 1991 by NZ Books

Always the Islands of Memory Noel Virtue, Vintage Books, Random Century Group, Auckland, 1991, $24.95 Noel Virtue’s fourth novel appeared in England early this year and like his third one In the Country of Salvation received favourable attention, Christopher Hawtree in The Spectator going…

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Memories, dreams and idealisations, Emma Neale

Posted on October 1, 1991 by NZ Books

Holy Terrors and Other Stories Amelia Batistich, Vintage Books, Random Century Group, Auckland, 1991, $19.95 How to belong, and where to find ‘home’, are the obsessions which unite the stories in this collection. These can tip over into a vivid…

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