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Reading History Again
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April 23, 2013 by astraltravels

I’m a little (okay, a lot) bit late in on this, and it’s my first blog post of the year. …
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Category: Thank you, Uncategorized | Tags: Captain Cook, Dame Anne Salmond, History, New Zealand book month, New Zealand History, New Zealander of the Year, second-hand bookshops, Writing
Controversy
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December 18, 2012 by astraltravels

It’s a headline that would grab any editor’s attention: ‘Kiwi accused of culling dictionary entries’ And, indeed, it did: ‘Editorial …
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Category: First up | Tags: cassette tape, criticism, Editor, firsts, Great Kiwi Firsts, JRR Tolkein, lexicon, library, Manufactroversy, New Zealand, Oxford English Dictionary, Robert Burchfield, sexting, The Fellowship of the Ring, words, Writing
This book of firsts is not my first book
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September 6, 2012 by astraltravels

It was at a Christmas event last year that I started telling people that I was writing a new book …
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Category: Uncategorized | Tags: Annie Proulx, Brokeback Mountain, creative process, criticism, firsts, Great Kiwi Firsts, Otago cheese rolls, Oxo cubes, publishing, seconds, Writing

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