Shares, by Martin Hawes (Penguin, $40): This is a revised edition of Martin Hawes’ best-selling book. It aims to help anyone make money on the sharemarket, no matter how experienced or inexperienced they might be. The author explains what he…
Even the bonking can’t save this one
Iron Crowned, by Richelle Mead (Bantam Press, RRP $40): Best-selling author Richelle Mead has made her name writing the Vampire Academy novels but this novel is the first in a different series, still in the fantasy realm but minus the…
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Postcards from New Zealand
Amusing study of gossip writer’s life
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…
Disturbingly good
Do No Harm, by Carol Topolski (Fig Tree, RRP $40): Everyone knows about Virginia: about her stellar reputation as a gynaecologist; about her commitment to her women patients. But does anyone know about the knives? Everyone knows about Faisal too:…