Archive for August, 2012

New book on turning around lives

August 22, 2012
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Boxer Billy Graham has paired up with journalist Phil Gifford to produce a guide for parents of teenage boys. It will be available in bookstores next month. Graham says he would have been bornĀ on the wrong side of the tracks in Naenae “but my mates had already stolen them.” His book is said to...

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A story of hope

August 15, 2012
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A story of hope

Les Tres Riches Heures de Mrs Mole, by Ronald Searle (Blue Door, RRP $25): Author/illustrator Ronald Searle is perhaps best known for being the creator of fictional boarding school St Trinian’s and co-creator of the Molesworth series, along with Geoffrey Willans. However, in this latest book the subject matter is much more personal. On...

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