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For me, the novel is about finding our voice, or in the case of Kurangaituku who had no voice, finding a way to be heard and, more importantly, understood. Often our perception of a person - a person we may never meet face to face - is built around the way other people talk about them.

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Highlight on: Entanglement
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A memory impaired time traveler attempts to correct a tragic mistake he made in 1976 when, panicked, he abandoned his brother on a frozen lake in Baltimore. What did we think of Bryan Walpert’s novel, Entanglement?

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Highlight on: Greta and Valdin
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This beguiling and hilarious novel by Rebecca K. Reilly owes as much to Shakespeare as it does to Tinder. Greta & Valdin is laugh-out-loud funny, an absolute riot filled with kiwi humour but do we think it’s worth the hype?

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