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Bookmarks: Reviews in brief

Adultery as a theme in fiction is as old as the genre itself, so Anthea Church, in Sleeping with Mozart (Virago, $34.96, pbk) faces a challenge in providing her reader with something sufficiently nuanced to lift her story out of the common trough.

Country's fortune built on the backs of sheep and shearers

Johnny Jones kept a thousand merinos at Waikouaiti and sold their wool in Sydney, among the very first New Zealand farmers to do so.

Account of suffrage campaign

One of New Zealand's claims to fame and an enduring source of pride to New Zealanders is that this was the first country in the world to give women the vote.

One fell swoop accounts for the land

The harshness of settler life in the United States is the stuff of legend, but danger and lawlessness was not confined to the prairies and deserts that have come to epitomise the American frontier.

More satisfaction than usual in chick-lit read

More satisfaction than usual in chick-lit read

Can romance survive without champagne, asks a new chick-lit novel with an alcoholic protagonist.

Who, why and what next: Key election analysed

A new book analyses the National Party's journey from the doldrums to the corridors of power and its likely long term political prospects.

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