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		<title>Vaughan Rapatahana, &#8216;americano&#8217; From china as kafka</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[americano in his mephistophelean slink toward some visceral glimmer of ‘democracy’ in this ‘failed state’, americano pauses to pat his shades I n t o p l a c e. he redeems his brusque suit collars with a residual slap &#038; imperceptibly twists the silver fob watch his granny gave him before he l e [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who Was That Woman, Anyway?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jun 2013 22:14:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Alison McCulloch It’s trite to say that books take you places. But true nonetheless. With books, you can disappear into other times, cultures, imaginary worlds. “Foreign” fiction is better than any guide-book at introducing you to a place and its people, and sometimes even better than going there if you want to see beneath [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brains and Morals</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jun 2013 03:54:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Braintrust: What Neuroscience Tells Us About Morality by Patricia S. Churchland (Princeton University Press, hardback $27.20, paperback $18.24) Reviewed by Charles Gibson What can science tell us about morality? In Braintrust, Patricia Churchland sets out to draw an up-to-date picture of our moral universe by applying philosophical analysis to the new and ever-growing body of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A shift in perspective</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 May 2013 04:50:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shift (Volume 2 of the Silo Saga) by Hugh Howey (Random House, $29.99) Reviewed by Fiona O’Kane After thoroughly enjoying Hugh Howey’s Wool , I eagerly launched straight into the second book of the Silo Saga: Shift. Although the publishers call it a prequel, technically it&#8217;s not: it has a longer timeline, with its events [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pulling the Wool over our eyes</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 23:17:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wool (Part One of the Wool Trilogy) by Hugh Howey (Random House, $29.99) Reviewed by Fiona O’Kane The Wool trilogy is a much-talked-about success story, with debut author Hugh Howey showing the world exactly how to go about writing your first novel. He started out self-publishing on Amazon, drip-feeding the release of the first book [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s the big secret?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 05:05:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Secret Life of James Cook by Graeme Lay (Fourth Estate, $36.99) Reviewed by Judith Nathan Graeme Lay’s novel covers the life of Captain James Cook until July 1771 when he returned to England from his first, three-year voyage to the Pacific. It is an easy and engaging read, soundly based on previous research. For [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Earth, Air and Song in Woody Guthrie&#8217;s Lost Novel</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 17:03:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[House of Earth by Woody Guthrie (HarperCollins/infinitum nihil, 2013) Introduction by Douglas Brinkley and Johnny Depp Reviewed by Mark P. Williams Woody Guthrie&#8217;s novel House of Earth is a fiction out of time which comes to us as a kind of haunting. Written in the 1940s and lost amongst a collection of papers and letters [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paying attention to the actual</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 01:46:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anti Lebanon by Carl Shuker (counterpointpress.com/products/anti-lebanon, http://carlshuker.com/) Reviewed by Pip Adam I feel like I’ve spent a long time waiting and hoping for a novel like Anti Lebanon by award-winning writer Carl Shuker, a New Zealander based in London. Yesterday I was speaking with a friend who is in a position where she can read [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Inadequacy of a Dependent Utopia</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 22:14:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is an edited version of a lecture given by WH (Bill) Oliver, professor of history at Massey University, Palmerston North, exactly 50 years ago, on 1 May, 1963. The lecture was in memory of a foundation member of the university’s teaching staff, Donald Anderson, who had died two years earlier. It is reproduced here, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Toilet Time</title>
		<link>http://books.scoop.co.nz/2013/04/19/3719/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2013 05:41:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Runaway Toilet by Jane Buxton, illustrated by Richard Hoit (Puffin, $19.99) Reviewed by Ruth Brassington Young children love toilet jokes, and this time the ultimate joke is that Philip the runaway toilet avoids his pre-determined career and ends up doing a more pleasant duty, “…cos I believe life should be fun, not full of [...]]]></description>
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