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Author Archives: alysonebaker
Rufus Marigold by Ross Murray – 2019
Graphic Novels can be beautiful, informative, funny, moving and sad. Rufus Marigold is all of these. Rufus Marigold is the alter ego of the author, and he is living with anxiety. He is depicted as a hybrid man/chimpanzee – successfully … Continue reading
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Pearly Gates by Owen Marshall – 2019
Pearly Gates is a very important man, in his own eyes. He has been the Mayor of a small north Otago town for some years, and at the beginning of the book he is considering running for a third term. … Continue reading
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The Unreliable People by Rosetta Allan – 2019
Identity is at the heart of this amazing novel, mainly set in post-perestroika Russia and Kazakhstan. The Koryo-saram are ethnic Koreans, people Stalin termed The Unreliable People, descendants of those who fled to Vladivostok from Korea, who were then deported … Continue reading
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Soul Etchings by Sandra Arnold – 2019
I love short short story collections and Soul etchings is a superb example. A collection of evocative snippets, about loss, grief, missed opportunities, women stuck in mis-matched relationships, misunderstood children, murder and over-obsessive inanimate objects. When I reviewed another short story … Continue reading
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Home to Me by LaVerne Clark – 2019
Erotic Romance is all about the tension between the main protagonists – and Home to me is a pure example – emotionally damaged Lucy meets us with Sam, a family friend she has always been attracted to, in a bar … Continue reading
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Death of an Agent by David McGill – 2019
We first met Dan Delaney as a young wannabe detective holding the fort on Somes Island in Wellington Harbour in 1935, then again back in Wellington after having been a POW in the Second World War, and then in Auckland … Continue reading
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A Mistake by Carl Shuker – 2019
Heart surgeon Dr. Donald Effler once said that to be great, a surgeon must have “a driving ego”, “a passion for perfectionism.” In A mistake, Dr Elizabeth Taylor is an exceptional surgeon with both these traits, but as a woman … Continue reading
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