Letters From Gallipoli: New Zealand Soldiers Write Home, edited by Glyn Harper (Auckland University Press, RRP $49.95): This latest book by Glyn Harper is one that brings home the trauma, hardship, heartache and horror of living through, and with, a war. Glyn Harper is the Professor of War Studies at Massey University and has...
Oxford Dictionary of New Zealandisms, by Tony Deverson (Oxford University Press, RRP $39.99): If you’ve ever had to explain one of those special Kiwi terms to someone online, or to a visitor from overseas, this might be the perfect book for you. Tony Deverson is a man who knows words – he is the...
Last Chance to Die, by Noah Boyd (HarperCollins, RRP $39.99): Noah Boyd is one of those rare authors who not only writes in the crime thriller genre, he also lived it. According to Boyd’s publisher, he is an ex- United States Marine and FBI agent and during the course of his career as a...
Simple Cafe Food, by Julie Le Clerc (Penguin, RRP $32): This is a reprinted, repackaged and updated version of Julie Le Clerc’s 1999 book by the same name and I have to say, the recipes still stack up well as good cafe food 12 years down the track. Food trends come and go and...
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