A LITERARY HAT-TRICK

MAKING IT—PATRICK EVANS
Cam Dunne has lost his job, his family and his house. Now he finds his past tapping him on the shoulder in the form of a long-lost girlfriend and a strange European psychiatrist.
     Provocative, unrepentantly masculinist and dealing with characters and settings that are uncomfortably familiar, MAKING IT is comic writing at its darkest and most entertaining when it comes close to giving offence.
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A MESSAGE FROM HARPO—MARILYN DUCKWORTH
1986. The Homosexual Law Reform Bill is making its way through Parliament, foreshadowing changes within a family. Jess is juggling a career in real estate and a flagging marriage; her daughter Hittie looks to the women's movement in her quest for identity; and Jess's mother Lena is retreating into the past as the future grows less recognisable.
     A MESSAGE FROM HARPO is a contemporary novel detailing a year in the lives and the life of a nation.
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INNOCENCE BETRAYED—ELIZABETH SPENCER
It is 1929, the onset of the Depression. Victor Austin fears for his job and his family. He decides to leave Wellington with his wife, twin daughters and 16-year-old son, to find a less precarious existence in provincial New Plymouth.
     As conditions deteriorate, life goes hideously awry for the family and for new-found and old friends. The twins' youthful intoxication with life gives way to growing bewilderment, as around them the world becomes disrupted.
     Poetically crafted and original, INNOCENCE BETRAYED is a novel that speaks to our time.
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