My Friends - Jane Duncan had a huge popular success with her semi-autobiographical novels the My Friend ... novels which numbered 19 by her death. Christine talks about the real woman behind the fictionalised Janet Sanderson. And as always we have the Athenaeum's newest books to review.

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100 years of Radio in Dunedin

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Christine needs a Bond in her life - Bond, James Bond that is - we review Anthony Horowitz's third and final James Bond novel With a Mind to Kill and Christine admits it is not really her cup of tea but passionate James Bond fans have persuaded her that she really should give it a go.

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Ann's back - We have the latest Ann Cleeve except it's a book that was published 30 years ago when she was just getting started and now that we all love Vera, the publishers have reissued it. There are other new books and the extended death of Oscar Wilde and the difficulties around his tombstone.

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Both Beth and Christine were bewildered by Lloyd Jones's latest novel The Fish and can't stop talking about it. There are also other new books to review and more about J B Priestley.

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An Inspector Calls

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Not enough murder mysteries - Beth is on the warpath as Christine hasn't been buying enough murder mysteries for her taste.

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A Habit of Nuns - One of the new books is a murder mystery set in a nunnery in 16th Century Florence and it set Christine off looking into the history of nuns. We also have other new books not about nuns.

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