For God and Country, by James Yee (Public Affairs, $49.95): James Yee could have been the poster boy for the United States Army. The West Point graduate and New Jersey native was a second-generation army man, following in the footsteps of his father and his brothers. He converted from Christianity to Islam shortly after...
iWoz, by Steve Wozniak with Gina Smith (Hachette Livre/Headline Review, RRP $39.99): In 1973, Steve Wozniak decided to build a computer for a bit of fun. He called it Apple I. Fast forward 30 years and that bit of fun has snowballed to become a billion-dollar company with more than 30 million customers. I’m...
Killers at Large, by Nigel Cawthorne (Constable & Robinson, RRP $29.99): The proliferation of cop shows on television makes it clear that we have a fascination with solving mysteries. However, in real life, sometimes the mystery is never solved and the bad guys are never caught. In an ideal world, the crime is solved and...
A Perfect Mess, by Eric Abrahamson and David H Freedman (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, RRP $35.99): So, we’ve had the self-help books that tell us how to organise our lives and have everything running like a well-oiled machine. It’s big business, this organising lark, with books, websites and TV shows devoted to helping us poor suckers get...
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