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  The Day I Died. Part Six.

  The meeting!

  Posted: Saturday 22 April 2023 , 4 Comments
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  The Day I Died. Part Five.

  He, she, or they have made contact!

  Posted: Monday 17 April 2023 , 3 Comments
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  The Day I Died. Part Four.

  Back at square one. Can you help?

  Posted: Wednesday 12 April 2023 , 7 Comments
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  The Day I Died. Part Three.

  Is it the Australians?

  Posted: Wednesday 5 April 2023 , 1 Comments
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  The Day I Died. Part Two.

  Proof of life?

  Posted: Wednesday 29 March 2023 , 1 Comments
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  The Day I Died. Part One.

  Does someone want me dead?

  Posted: Wednesday 22 March 2023 , 1 Comments
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  Nacqui All’Affano sung by Ewa Podles

  Aria from Rossini’s opera “La Cenerentola”

  Posted: Wednesday 14 December 2022 , 1 Comments
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  Matakana montage

  Photos and video from my meet and greet at the Farmers Market

  Posted: Sunday 11 December 2022
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  Meet the Author at Matakana

  Posted: Tuesday 29 November 2022
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  Watch me talking about my new books with Sunny Chayes in Hollywood!

  When I was recently interviewed by Sunny Chayes about my two recent novels, I was struck by the incongruity of it all.

  Posted: Monday 21 November 2022
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  The Emu

  Relevance is overrated

  Posted: Friday 11 November 2022
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  What people are saying about my latest novel

  Reviews of "A Secret Never to be Told"

  Posted: Monday 17 October 2022
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  The Rossini opera rock star

  After 19 years of furious output, Gioacchino Rossini stopped composing operas. Why? A secret never to be told... until now.

  Posted: Thursday 29 September 2022 , 1 Comments
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  It is too difficult to have children

  More from Avio

  Posted: Wednesday 14 September 2022
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  Avio and the Bad Feeling

  "Before I am married, there is this woman..."

  Posted: Wednesday 7 September 2022
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  When you're in Italy and you see an undertaker or a nun

  The sight of a traditional habit provokes a traditional habit in all Italian men

  Posted: Wednesday 31 August 2022
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  The Magpies

  A poem

  Posted: Monday 15 August 2022
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  The Virtual Wife

  AKA The Case of the Missing Furniture

  Posted: Tuesday 26 July 2022
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  Huatulco

  I have never seen the like

  Posted: Friday 22 July 2022
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  Thai-style fishcakes

  A favourite adapted from a traditional recipe

  Posted: Monday 11 July 2022 , 2 Comments
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  A knocking on the window of my EV

  I turned and saw a woman signalling for me to wind down the window

  Posted: Wednesday 6 July 2022
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  Surprise! Surprise!

  World-famous in Orewa

  Posted: Friday 1 July 2022
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  Creole-style fish

  A Curaçao Jewish recipe for “Bakiou”

  Posted: Friday 24 June 2022 , 4 Comments
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  How to explain a Brunelleschi

  The logic of genius

  Posted: Friday 17 June 2022
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  Another taster from much later in the novel Boyo

  In a wet, grey, plastic mac

  Posted: Friday 10 June 2022
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  Avio and the two phones

  Wearing two phones keeps Avio safe... or does it?

  Posted: Friday 3 June 2022 , 1 Comments
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  A wonderful day in Barbados

  Francis was in his late thirties, medium height, balding, white teeth, twinkle in his eye, and African.

  Posted: Friday 27 May 2022
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  The Italian waitress

  She is Italian woman, con spirito...

  Posted: Friday 20 May 2022 , 2 Comments
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  Another taster from the novel Boyo

  Wales. The hairdresser.

  Posted: Friday 13 May 2022
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  The poor Italians

  Plus an extract from "Roll Jordan, roll", sung by the North Shore Male Choir

  Posted: Thursday 5 May 2022

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