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A road trip through New Zealand like no other

ABBEY'S BOOKSELLER PICK ----- This was one of my favourite reads during the disquiet of early COVID19 and it stayed with me a while (the story, not the virus).

Coley's writing crackles with a youthfulness as it launches into a road trip running the full extent of New Zealand, for which twin siblings Alex and Amy seem strangely ill-prepared. Along the way we glimpse into their strained relationship and their memories as children of successful, but often absent globetrotting parents. We also piece together Alex's life away from his home country of New Zealand, now working and playing hard in the information economy in the shimmering mirage of Dubai. A young man, far from home, finding his way through sexual self-discovery and self-exile from his family.

As the kilometres rack up, so do the glitches that tell us all is not as it appears. A poignant and resonant story that will entrance many. Craig Kirchner

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Kate Grenville

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Luke Horton

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Kayte Nunn

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Imbi Neeme

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Craig Cormick

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Robbie Arnott

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Bernard Gallate

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Ronnie Scott

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Meredith Appleyard

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Chris Flynn

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Julie Janson

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Lisa Ireland

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Fiona Harris

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Make Me A City: A Novel of Chicago Rising

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Days Without End

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The Man Who Saw Everything

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Middlemarch

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War and Peace

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No Small Shame

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The House of Mirth

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True History of the Kelly Gang

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The Garden of Forgotten Wishes

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Postscript (#2 PS I Love You)

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The Minute I Saw You

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Fool Me Once

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Would Like to Meet

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The Cottage at Rosella Cove

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The Switch

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Girl Gone Viral (#2 Modern Love)

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Music from Another World

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The River

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White Ape

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All Systems Red (#1 Murderbot Diaries)

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The Black Art of Killing

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Wrath of Poseidon (#12 Fargo)

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Blood of an Exile (#1 Dragons of Terra)

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Homeland

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The Fourth Shore

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In the Time of Foxes

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Good Citizens Need Not Fear

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The Penguin Book of Italian Short Stories

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A Lasting Conversation: Stories on Ageing

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Dental Tourism

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Universal Love: Stories

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No Neat Endings

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Stories: The Collected Short Fiction

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Leftovers

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Anh and Lucien

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Shorter Lives

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Love's Philosophy

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The Prophet: The Spiritual Classic

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The Prophet

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New Selected Poems

Christina Rossetti

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Selected Poems: Eluard

Paul Eluard

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Homeland Calling: Words from a New Generation of Aboriginal...

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Prince Neptune: Poetry and Prose

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Family Trees

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Turbulence

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Ask Me About the Future

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Flames

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Quichotte

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There Was Still Love

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The Surprising Power of a Good Dumpling

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Allegra in Three Parts

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