The World’s Your Lobster, by Joe Bennett (HarperCollins, RRP $26.99): If you’re a regular reader of The Southland Times, I’m sure you’re also a regular reader of the columns of the very talented Joe Bennett. Young Mr Bennett is, without doubt, one of the funniest to grace our pages and he never fails to...
Digital Scrapbooking: The Definitive NZ Ideas Book, by Vinnie Pearce (Random House NZ, RRP $45): Scrapbooking is one of those pastimes that has taken off and now it seems every second person is a scrapbooker, collecting interesting papers and embellishments to help record their family history, their child’s life, wedding, family holidays and more....
Save Money on your Mortgage, by Martin Hawes (Penguin, RRP $30): What Martin Hawes doesn’t know about handling your finances isn’t worth knowing. This time around, he’s tackling what is most likely our biggest financial outlay, and our biggest debt: our mortgage. More specifically, he shows how we can save money on our mortgage....
The New Zealand Plant Doctor, by Andrew Maloy (New Holland Publishers, RRP $24.99): My gardening talents (or lack of them) are legendary but I think I’ve found the perfect book to give any plant that has the misfortune of meeting me a fighting chance. I’m the only person I know who has managed to...
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