One Hundred and Four Horses; A Memoir of Farm and Family, Africa and Exile by Mandy Retzlaff (HarperCollins, RRP $30): After the last, very bad, African saga I read, I decided that I would read no more about that troubled continent, first met through Wilbur Smith and followed up with Bryce Courtney. The fact...
Quake Dogs, text by Laura Sessions, photography by Craig Bullock (Random House, RRP $35): This sweetly addictive book features the heart-warming stories of Christchurch dogs. After the devastating Canterbury quakes, we heard the many stories of survival and loss that came out of the city. But beyond those tales of human suffering and/or joy,...
Ghosts of Parihaka, by David Hair (HarperCollins, RRP $25): Ghosts of Parihaka is the fifth book in the six-book Aotearoa series and keeps the story of myth and legend ticking along at a great pace. Matiu Douglas is able to slip between modern New Zealand and the parallel ghost world of Aotearoa. One of...
An Indescribable Beauty: Letters home to German From Wellington, NZ (1859-1862), by Friedrich August Krull (Awa Press, RRP $38): A century and a half ago, a young German man set sail on a four-month journey on the Swedish ship the Equator to begin a new life in New Zealand. Friedrich Krull arrived in New...
50 Shades of Key: The Unofficial John Key Joke Book, by Paul Little (Paul Little Books, RRP $15): Whatever your politics, you’ll find it hard not to have a giggle at a few of the offerings in this little book. Columnist-author-publisher Paul Little has added captions to a selection of photographs of Prime Minister...
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