Weta Workshop extraordinaire, Daniel Falconer, has compiled this third book in The Hobbit Chronicles series and it is simply gorgeous. Beautiful to touch and to hold, it covers a myriad concept arts, design, illustrations, descriptions of set pieces and development…
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Cycle of Lies: The Fall of Lance Armstrong
Uncovering the Armstrong ‘miracle’: No figure in world sport has fallen as far, or as hard, as Lance Edward Armstrong. Tiger Woods might have lost much of the esteem the world held him in following revelations of his truly epic…
Soldiers’ snaps bring war home
Anyone attending Anzac Day services will be left in no doubt that there is growing interest among younger Kiwis in our military history. Each year, it seems there are more and more families at these services and there is a…
Bookmarks: short non-fiction reviews
A roundup of short general non-fiction reviews: My Gentle Barn, by Ellie Laks (Penguin, RRP $28): This is non fiction at its best. Ellie Laks runs a rescue mission for animals near Los Angeles and this is the story of her early…
Heroine out for revenge in edge-of-seat series finale
Assassin, by Tara Moss (HarperCollins, RRP $27): In the final thriller in the Mak Vanderwall series by former model Tara Moss, the focus is on revenge and survival. When ex-model turned private investigator and forensic psychologist Mak Vanderwall goes missing…
Author doesn’t let injuries define him
Without Warning, by Damien Thomlinson with Michael Cowley (HarperCollins, RRP $37): It would take a special type of person to criticise this book. The front cover sums it up – a surfie-looking guy smiling into the camera, fit and tanned,…
High-flying Kiwis played important role in WW2
Victory: New Zealand Airmen and the Fall of Germany, by Max Lambert (HarperCollins, RRP $40): New Zealand pilots served in both the RNZAF and also the RAF during World War II, and this is an account of the heroic and…
Classic tale of evil versus worse
Last Stand of the Dead Men By Derek Landy (HarperCollins, RRP $25) Last Stand of the Dead Men is the latest in the Skullduggery Pleasant series. Skullduggery is a living skeleton who is part of a shadowy world of magic…
African saga a welcome improvement
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…
Hair keeps myth, legend ticking
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…