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Florascope |
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(Bateman, re-released in
North America 2005 by Warwick)
WHAT’S YOUR FLORASCOPE? |
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From the Heart |
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(HarperCollins 2001)
Available NZ Libraries, www.booksbuyaustralian.com and
from the author
Nobody said changing countries was going to be easy.
Helen Brown shifts from homeland New Zealand to Australia
with her trademark wit intact. “From the Heart”, her most
recent collection, will delight Helen’s thousands of regular
readers and also those who haven’t yet had the pleasure |
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In Deep |
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(Eclipse 1996)
Available NZ Libraries (plus a few remaining copies with
the author)
Disguised as a distressed solo mother who’d temporarily
abandoned the kids, Helen Brown enters the hallowed halls
of England’s Cambridge University in search of the truth,
secrets and a damn good column. |
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A Guide To Modern Manners |
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(Penguin 1991)
Available NZ Libraries and www.antiqbook.com
In this very modern guide to modern manners, Helen Brown
takes us step by step through those life situations that
constantly confront us but no one knows quite how to deal
with. |
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Fresh Starts and Finishing Lines |
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(Penguin 1990)
Available NZ Libraries and www.kowhaigold.co.nz
This collection of her work is about adjusting to personal
change, settling some of the differences between men and
women, dealing with materialism and learning to find there
are still a lot of laughs in the world. |
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Clouds of Happiness |
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(Angus & Robertson 1988)
available NZ Libraries and www.antiqbook.com
With her delicious irony and wit, newspaper columnist
Helen Brown once again chronicles the delights and disasters
of life both in and outside the home. |
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Tomorrow, When It’s Summer |
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(Reed Methuen 1987)
available NZ Libraries and www.antiqbook.com
Beneath the surface of her humour, Helen Brown reveals
a wealth of warmth and understanding as she comes to terms
with difficult times in her own life, such as when her
son Sam was killed. Moving and thought provoking, this
number one best seller Tomorrow, When It’s Summer will
bring a smile to the lips and provides the reader with
some comfort and more than a little cheer. |
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Confessions of a Bride Doll |
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(Reed 1983)
available NZ Libraries and www.kowhaigold.co.nz
It’s so damned difficult being a Perfectly Rounded Person
– beautiful and fulfilled inside and out like some sort
of tropical fruit. No wonder some of us are cracking under
the pressure.
In this hilarious collection of columns Helen Brown journeys
from bride doll to real person. |
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Don’t Let Me Put You Off |
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(Whitcoulls 1981)
available NZ Libraries and www.kowhaigold.co.nz
Helen Brown doesn’t want to put anybody off but she feels
it’s time somebody told the truth about how it turned
out for all those princesses supposedly living happily
ever after in suburban castles. |
Several of these books were read on National Radio in New
Zealand, and translated into Braille.
Helen’s work also appears in
A History of New Zealand Humour compiled by Gordon McLauchlan (Penguin)
Short Stories from New Zealand selected by Alistain Paterson (Price Milburn)
Columns – Selections form the columns of NZ’s Leading Columnists (Inprint)
Good as Gold – Being a New Zealander selected by John Daley
Quotable New Zealand Women (Reed)
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