Freeing Grace by Charity NormanAn English-born African teenager gives birth and then flees, terrified by what is happening to her body, to be almost instantly...
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SLICING THE GORDIAN KNOT: Freeing Grace by Charity Norman
Written By Lingkar Dunia on Sunday, May 30, 2010 | 4:50 PM
JUNK COVERED WITH GUNK
Written By Lingkar Dunia on Saturday, May 29, 2010 | 9:05 PM
Every now and then the day is enlivened by the addition of a catchy new word or phrase. A letter in this week's New Zealand Listener provided this,...
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WAR IN AFGHANISTAN, TOLD BY SEBASTIAN JUNGER
Giles Whittell reviews the nonfiction master's latest in The Sunday Times.A number of years ago, I met Sebastian Junger -- not that he would know me from...
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CURIOUSER AND CURIOUSER
Written By Lingkar Dunia on Friday, May 28, 2010 | 4:35 PM
A letter from great illustrator John Tenniel to new author Lewis Carroll has shed new light on Through the Looking Glass and the relationship between...
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IS YOUR IDENTITY SAFE?
Written By Lingkar Dunia on Thursday, May 27, 2010 | 6:48 PM
Lose the details attached to your banking or share-trading, and you could lose all your money.And that applies to your social security number or...
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NOVELIST HAS PIG NAMED AFTER HIS BOOK
Ian McEwan comic novel has a pig named in its honour.It is even better than the Booker! McEwan's "brilliantly funny" novel, Solar, has won the Bollinger...
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DEBUT BOOK SHORTLISTED FOR NONFICTION PRIZE
Written By Lingkar Dunia on Wednesday, May 26, 2010 | 3:53 PM
The BBC Samuel Johnson Prize shortlist has been announced.A US bestseller charting the financial crisis, by firsttime author Andrew Ross Sorkin (pictured)...
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FAST FICTION AND C.K. STEAD
Written By Lingkar Dunia on Tuesday, May 25, 2010 | 7:05 PM
Well, lo and behold, the Sunday Times continues the New Zealand theme that I picked up in the TV review (see post below). I found a blog by Serena...
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SEXED UP SPARTACUS
Immersing myself luxuriously in the the online London Times newspaper for the first time, I was intrigued and very amused to read the review of a new...
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THOSE LISTS OF "THE BEST"
Written By Lingkar Dunia on Monday, May 24, 2010 | 1:51 PM
Yesterday, I received an email from a fellow blogger (a stranger by the name of Todd Jensen), who runs his blog from a site intriguingly called "forensic...
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MARK TWAIN SPEAKS FROM BEYOND THE CURTAIN
Written By Lingkar Dunia on Saturday, May 22, 2010 | 11:47 PM
That seance for the anniversary of Mark Twain's death (see earlier post) must have worked: Mark Twain's humungous memoir is going to hit the printed...
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WIFEY 4 LIFE
I haven't read this book. I haven't even seen this book. When typing out the list of top twenty reserves, below, I just happened to be intrigued...
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TOP TWENTY LIBRARY RESERVES
The Library Journal runs a very interesting feature on the top twenty library holds (what we call "reserves" down under), arguing that this is as...
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WIMBLEDON TENNIS APPOINTS OFFICIAL POET
Written By Lingkar Dunia on Friday, May 21, 2010 | 4:21 PM
What fun! Action, tension, and love-all. According to the BBC, Matt Harvey will write a poem every day during the annunal two-week All England...
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CORPORATE RAIDER COMES TO THE RESCUE OF BORDERS
As so often happens, Jason Boog of GalleyCat is the man to break the news. Corporate raider Bennett S. LeBow, chairman of the Vector Group, among...
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NINE MILLIMETRE RAPID-FIRE WEAPON
Written By Lingkar Dunia on Thursday, May 20, 2010 | 9:16 PM
No, I'm joking. Kiwi crime-buff Craig Sisterson, who manages a really great blog featuring crime and mystery writing from all over the world, with...
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TUPAIA'S CHART
Written By Lingkar Dunia on Tuesday, May 18, 2010 | 2:51 PM
Invitation from Nicola Frean, Special Materials Librarian at the JC Beaglehole Library, Victoria University, Wellington:Kia ora,I hope you will be able...
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Intriguing NZ-related publishing news from Spymouse
1st July sees the publication by Allen & Unwin NZ of FREEING GRACE by the charmingly-named Charity Norman. *Inner-city curate David and his Nigerian-born...
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HENRY VIII JINXED?
Written By Lingkar Dunia on Monday, May 17, 2010 | 3:21 PM
The Globe theatre is resurrecting Shakespeares' Henry VIII, and nerves, it seems, could be at stretching point.The BBC entertainment page is...
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THE TWILIGHT SERIES -- FINALLY READ
Written By Lingkar Dunia on Sunday, May 16, 2010 | 3:54 PM
It is quite some time since I first reported the advent of the Stephanie Meyer phenomenon. At the time I really did mean to read the book that triggered...
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PRIME MINISTER'S QUESTIONS - LITERALLY SPEAKING
Written By Lingkar Dunia on Friday, May 14, 2010 | 4:10 PM
The Saturday Guardian ran an interesting discussion, where eleven prominent writers recommended "essential" reading for the new British PM's reading,...
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Short story writer Mary Robison wins Rea Prize
Written By Lingkar Dunia on Tuesday, May 11, 2010 | 1:56 PM
MARY ROBISON WINS SHORT STORY PRIZE IN NEW YORKThe Rea Award is not only one of the most prestigious, but also very generous -- Mary Robison will receive...
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Literary figures to rule Britain?
Written By Lingkar Dunia on Monday, May 10, 2010 | 1:27 PM
Well, it's a thought. I particularly like the notion of Dickens being in charge of housing ...Observer list of ideal political appointments....
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Mark Mills vs Stephen King
Written By Lingkar Dunia on Saturday, May 8, 2010 | 7:25 PM
The Information Officer by Mark MillsCell by Stephen KingI picked up Mark Mills' first book, Amagansett (The Whaleboat House in the UK) because I knew...
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PULITZER PRIZE LIST ANNOUNCED (April 12, 2010)
Written By Lingkar Dunia on Friday, May 7, 2010 | 2:50 PM
NUMBER ONE OF THE NEWS ITEMS I MISSED WHILE WRITING TUPAIAColumbia University today announced the 2010 Pulitzer Prizes, JOURNALISM Public Service -- Bristol...
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A Stamp for NZ-born Russell Crowe
This is news to have any publicist licking his lips: the big buzz today is that the Australian postal service is releasing a set of stamps featuring...
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Art of the ENDEAVOUR
Written By Lingkar Dunia on Thursday, May 6, 2010 | 6:48 PM
Caron Dann, in her comment on the jacket of Tupaia, Captain Cook's Polynesian Navigator (which she liked a lot), asked about Tupaia's artwork. Now...
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LIBRARY JOURNAL STARRED REVIEWS MAY 2010
The Library Journal has released its list of 37 books that have earned starred reviews for great writing and good reading. Reference books...
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CHINGLISH IN DANGER
Written By Lingkar Dunia on Tuesday, May 4, 2010 | 1:21 PM
A tourist experience that has given the English-speaking traveller a lot of innocent fun is to end.Andrew Jacobs in the New York Times reports that Shanghai...
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