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![Book Review: <i>Wulf</i>](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=795)
Book Review: <i>Wulf</i>
The genesis of this startling first novel is already en route to becoming a New Zealand literary legend.
!['Booty' eliminated from latest Bible edition](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=795)
'Booty' eliminated from latest Bible edition
The newest edition of the New American Bible will replace the words "booty", "holocaust" and other phrases.
![Travel book: <i>In Search of Ancient New Zealand</i>](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=795)
Travel book: <i>In Search of Ancient New Zealand</i>
A fantastic companion for a trip around New Zealand, offering fascinating insights as to why the passing countryside looks the way it does and how some of the more remarkable tourist attractions came into being.
![Poetry Reviews: Fossicking in the past](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=795)
Poetry Reviews: Fossicking in the past
Paula Green reviews three new volumes of poetry from New Zealand writers.
![Authors write their own paycheques](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=795)
Authors write their own paycheques
It is a truism in the publishing industry that very few Kiwis get rich by writing a book.
![Book Review: <i>Working The Room Essays</i>](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=795)
Book Review: <i>Working The Room Essays</i>
One of the pleasures of reading an essayist as eclectic as Geoff Dyer is that one can go within a few pages from regarding him as a fount of wisdom (when his opinions match yours) to thinking he's a pretentious phoney (when they don't).
![Book Review: <i>Remember Nothing And Other Reflections</i>](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=795)
Book Review: <i>Remember Nothing And Other Reflections</i>
For women of a certain (or uncertain) age, remembering nothing is not difficult. Remembering something is more problematic. Thus, women of a certain age will be enchanted by Nora Ephron's take on memory, or lack of it.
![Book Review: <i>Of Love And Evil</i>](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=795)
Book Review: <i>Of Love And Evil</i>
Confession time: I'd never read anything by Anne Rice before this. For a while, I thought she was another name for Stephenie Meyer. She's not (of course), but she could be.
![Book Review: <i>The Rose</i>](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=795)
Book Review: <i>The Rose</i>
I began this book when a William Lobb rose was in its first flowering in my garden. Every time I went out to get the mail the perfume hung in the air and I breathed it in and felt good about being alive.
![Book Review: <i>Sourland</i>](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=795)
Book Review: <i>Sourland</i>
It's been six months since the last Joyce Carol Oates, so it's not surprising to find she has another book out. Her productivity is astonishing, she's Barbara Cartland in black instead of pink.
![All lost at sea on the trail of Moby Duck](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=795)
All lost at sea on the trail of Moby Duck
They are small, yellow and designed to endure nothing more stressful than a quick journey around a bathtub.
![Book Review: <i>Dolci Di Love</i>](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=795)
Book Review: <i>Dolci Di Love</i>
Lynch fans will delight in her latest offering of love and heartache in the Italian hills. Sarah-Kate Lynch even helped smooth the reviewer's own path to love.
![Film bible packs a real punch](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=795)
Film bible packs a real punch
David Larsen talks to career film buff David Thomson about his revised classic.
![Book Review: <i>Listen To This</i>](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=795)
Book Review: <i>Listen To This</i>
One of the many funny lines in the profanity-strewn satirical film In The Loop came from the character Jamie Macdonald, the senior press officer in 10 Downing St and the "angriest man in Scotland".
![How repetition helps a child's vocabulary](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=795)
How repetition helps a child's vocabulary
It may be boring for parents - but reading the same book over and over again to children is the best way to develop their vocabulary.
![Travel book: <i>Ultimate Surfing Adventures</i>](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=795)
Travel book: <i>Ultimate Surfing Adventures</i>
A group of Californian surfers have discovered a new wave: off an iceberg in the Antarctic.