It will probably come as no surprise to learn that way back in the mists of time, when I was a young’un, I was a bit of a bookworm. I had an extensive collection of hard-cover Little Golden Books (including the classic Poky Little Puppy) that filled my own bookshelf and took over most...
Some Christmas gift ideas for your book-tacular friends and family. Please excuse the dodgy video quality (filmed with my webcam because I was too lazy to get my camcorder from the other room). Happy shopping … books are way better than socks, and much easier to wrap. 🙂
And yes, I have just tweaked this video a little … it needed to be uploaded again at a slightly higher quality.
Butterflies of the South Pacific, by Brian Patrick and Hamish Patrick (Otago University Press, RRP $50): Butterflies may appear to be fragile creatures but their ability to colonise the tiny, scattered islands of the vast South Pacific ocean proves they are anything but fragile. From Kiribati, Tuvalu and Fiji in the west, to the...
Bittersweet, by Colleen McCullough (HarperCollins, RRP $50): It’s been 36 years since Colleen McCullough’s epic The Thorn Birds was first published, 30 years since it was made into that massive miniseries starring such luminaries as Richard Chamberlain, Barbara Stanwyck and Christopher Plummer. I remember both the book and the miniseries as being dramatic and just...
The War That Never Ended: NZ Veterans Remember Korea, as told to Pip Desmond (Penguin, RRP $45): It’s been called the forgotten war, but for the New Zealanders who served in the Korean War during the 1950s, and their families, it hasn’t been forgotten. Forty-five Kiwis died during that conflict in a land many...
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