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This week s biggest-selling New Zealand books, as recorded by the Nielsen BookScan New Zealand bestseller list and described by Steve Braunias
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From a wonderful profile of the author by Noelle McCarthy, this week at Her house is up a driveway. Her son lives with his family in the big house in front, hers is tall and light with beautiful big windows that look out on her garden and trees. All of this is in From the Centre, a title that describes how she writes - the shifting perspectives of character and non-linear treatment of time she started with her first novel Mutuwhenua, and perfected in the brilliant, dream-like Pōtiki, and Baby No-Eyes, a novel about racism and inter-generational trauma that starts with a whānau receiving back fro
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At home . . . Philippa Cameron in her kitchen, where she spends a lot of her time. PHOTO: SUPPLIED/LOTTIE HEDLEY
When Philippa Cameron started her Instagram page What’s for Smoko about three years ago, she never expected it to take off the way it did, or for it to land her a book deal.
She started her Instagram page after moving to Otematata Station with her husband, Joe, five and a-half years ago, and found herself having to feed the farm workers. She now has more than 17,000 followers and counting
“At the time I didn’t have a large repertoire of recipes up my sleeve, and so I thought of it more as a way for people in a similar situation to mine to share and find recipes. I did not see this coming, obviously. ”
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