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Book review: How Bizarre by Simon Grigg

I blogged: Book review: How Bizarre by Simon Grigg

How Bizarre: Pauly Fuemana and the Song that Stormed the World by Simon Grigg, Awa Press, ISBN9781927249222, RRP $38 Is there any New Zealander, anywhere in the world who wouldn’t immediately know exactly what one was talking about if one simply said “How bizarre”? In 1995 and 1996 Pauly Fuemana and Alan Jansson, as Otara Millionaire’s Club, scored an unprecedented (then or since) international…

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Book review: Starlight Peninsula by Charlotte Grimshaw

I blogged: Book review: Starlight Peninsula by Charlotte Grimshaw

Starlight Peninsula by Charlotte Grimshaw, Vintage, ISBN9781775538226, RRP $38 Starlight Peninsula is the beguiling new novel from one of New Zealand’s most celebrated contemporary authors, Charlotte Grimshaw. The novel’s central character, Eloise Hay, is a young woman forced to slowly confront trauma from her past, a past that suddenly seems to her to be full of layer and hidden meaning. Readers…

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Book review: Shards of Hope by Nalini Singh

I blogged: Book review: Shards of Hope by Nalini Singh

Shards of Hope by Nalini Singh, Gollancz, ISBN 9780575111813, RRP $29.99 Nalini Singh is a prolific New Zealand/Fijian author and something of an undervalued hero in the NZ literary scene. And by prolific I mean “over 30 books published and that’s not counting novellas and stories”. Yes, that kind of prolific. She specialises in amazing romance/paranormal/sci-fi hybrid novels and Shards of Hope…

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Book review: The Predictions by Bianca Zander

Book review: The Predictions by Bianca Zander

I spoke on More FM Waikato about The Predictions by Bianca Zander.

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Picture books for June 2015

I blogged: Picture books for June 2015

Shine: A Story About Saying Goodbye by Trace Balla, Allen & Unwin, ISBN9781743316344, RRP $24.99 Oh god. Picture books can tug at the heart strings at the best of times but a picture book for kids to help them understand grief and loss, particularly of a parent? I dare you to not be a quivering, blubbering mess when you get to the end of this. However, the best books illuminate the things we’d…

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Book review: Murder & Matchmaking by Debbie Cowens

I blogged: Book review: Murder & Matchmaking by Debbie Cowens

Murder & Matchmaking by Debbie Cowens, Paper Road Press, ISBN 9780473315696, Ebook and print. I admit it, I’m an inveterate Pride and Prejudice fan. One of the things I like best about it is Austen’s almost absurd sense of humour, especially with her supporting characters and in Pride and Prejudice Mrs Bennet is probably the best example. She always did seems slightly unhinged to me, and New…

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