Treading Water: Rob Hewitt’s Survival Story, by Rob Hewitt with Aaron Smale (Huia, RRP $30): We all felt for former All Black Norm Hewitt when the news broke back in February, 2006, that his brother Rob was the diver missing off the Kapiti Coast. As the hours ticked by, I doubt there was anyone...
Unexplained New Zealand, by Julie Miller and Grant Osborn (Reed Publishing, RRP $29.99): We Kiwis there is a real fascination with things that go bump in the night and Julie Miller and Grant Osborn have come up with a book to feed that fascination. Here you’ll find what are tagged as true stories of...
Trauma, by Patrick McGrath (Bloomsbury, RRP $37.99): I picked up this book and was riveted from the first page. Sadly, by the third chapter the momentum was slowing. By the fifth chapter, my get-up-and-go had got up and gone. I’d lost interest in the book. It’s the story of Charlie Weir, a bloke who...
The Career Maze, by Heather Carpenter PhD (New Holland Publishers, RRP $24.99): If you’re a parent, chances are you have on occasions worried about just what the future holds for junior. Every year thousands of youngsters get lost in the career maze, bogged down by information overload and a lack of direction. The end...
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