The Millennium series was a hugely popular trilogy that introduced the world to Lisbeth Salander and Mikael Blomkvist, and now they are set to return in a continuation of the late Stieg Larsson’s epic saga. Yes, that’s right: we’re getting a fourth book, the “girl with the dragon tattoo” is coming back. This much-anticipated...
Someone Else’s Wedding, by Tamar Cohen (Random House, RRP $38): Fran is in her mid-forties and having a weekend away with her husband and two adult daughters at the wedding of a family friend. She is the first person narrator and, as such, we can see the flaws in her thinking that take her a...
Lazy Days: Painting the Kiwi Lifestyle, by Graham Young (New Holland Publishers, RRP $30): English born artist Graham Young has put together a collection of his kiwi lifestyle works which is just fine. Nice. Pleasant. Any of the adjectives you can use to sum up something so inoffensive that doesn’t quite cross into being...
On the Trail of Genghis Khan, by Tim Cope (Allen & Unwin, RRP $37): I’m done some travelling over the years but it’s fair to say that Mongolia wasn’t high on the list of destinations. Not for any particular reason, it’s more that it’s hard to imagine there being too much to see and...
Every Dog Has Its Day: A Thousand things You Didn’t Know About Man’s Best Friend, by Max Cryer (Exisle Publishing, RRP $30): After penning books on everything from proverbs to music, Max Cryer has now turned his attention to man’s best friend. Cryer is a bloke who knows a lot of things about a...
Awful Auntie, by David Walliams (HarperCollins, RRP $24.99): Comedian David Walliams continues to show just what a talent he is in the world of children’s literature with his latest offering, Awful Auntie. We hear so much about the young-adult fiction genre these days, on the back of the likes of Suzanne Collins (the Hunger...
Heavenly Hirani’s School of Laughing Yoga, by Sarah-Kate Lynch (Random House, RRP $38): As a disclaimer, let me just say that I’m probably not the target audience for New Zealand novelist and magazine columnist Sarah-Kate Lynch’s books, and the one of her books I have read didn’t really float my boat. However, Lynch’s latest...
The Inheritance, by Tilly Bagshawe (HarperCollins, RRP $30): This book has enabled me to tick the box on my summer reading bingo card (courtesy Invercargill Public Library), “a book by an author new to you”. It could add, “but will definitely read again”. Tatiana has been so badly behaved as a teenager and young adult that...
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