High Country Woman: My Life on Rees Valley Station By Iris Scott with Geraldine O’Sullivan Beere (Random House, RRP $45) The description on the back cover of this book says “New Zealand’s high country farmers are a special breed” and I reckon you would be hard- pressed to find one as special as Iris...
This is a Call: the life and times of Dave Grohl By Paul Brannigan (HarperCollins, RRP $40): Back in 1990, when Dave Grohl joined a little-known band as the new drummer, few people would have expected the band was about to explode into the global phenomenon that was Nirvana. Grohl is a bloke who...
No Regrets: A Rock ‘n’ Roll Memoir By Ace Frehley, with Joe Layden and John Ostrosky (Simon & Schuster, RRP $40) You probably know the name better than you know the face. In fact, it’s safe to say that at the height of his career Ace Frehley could have walked down the street without...
Seriously . . . I’m Kidding By Ellen Degeneres (HarperCollins, RRP $40) I missed all the Ellen excitement when she first hit our screens back in the 1990s, because I worked nights and didn’t really watch a lot of television back then. Fast forward a decade or two and I’m now working days and...
The Fry Chronicles: An Autobiography By Stephen Fry (Penguin, RRP $37) Stephen Fry is one of those horribly intelligent people who manages to make it very clear that he knows a lot about a lot without coming across as a pompous prat. Well, OK, at times he does do the pompous prat thing, but...
Pippa Blake: Journey By Pippa Blake (Penguin, RRP $50) December 5 marked the the anniversary of the death of one of New Zealand’s true adventurers, Sir Peter Blake, and I’m sure I’m not the only one out there who remembers distinctly where I was when I heard the awful news that Sir Peter had...
Memoirs of a Gossip Columnist By David Hartnell (Penguin, RRP $45): There’s no doubt that most of us enjoy a good spot of gossip but David Hartnell is one of those very few people in the world who has managed to make a career of it. It wasn’t always such a glamorous life, though,...
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