Save Money on your Mortgage, by Martin Hawes (Penguin, RRP $30): What Martin Hawes doesn’t know about handling your finances isn’t worth knowing. This time around, he’s tackling what is most likely our biggest financial outlay, and our biggest debt:…
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Fun read from the man with a dream job
Don’t Stop Me Now, by Jeremy Clarkson (Penguin, RRP $30): Jeremy Clarkson is a bloke who is probably the envy of every other bloke out there (and a lot of bloke-esses, too, I would imagine): he gets to drive around in…
A classic car that’s still cheery
Mini Down Under: 50 Years of the Mini in NZ, by Donn Anderson (Penguin, RRP $45): They’re small, cool and – after starring in a cult movie classic – they’re very much a Kiwi icon. Minis are loved by drivers from…
Inspiration for summer cooking
Salad Bible and Seafood Bible, by Jackie Passmore (Penguin, RRP $25 each): I’m not really a great fan of seafood but the bloke of the house got rather excited when he spotted the Seafood Bible, and it goes without saying…
Good value for giggles
World’s Weirdest Obsessions, by Matt Roper (Penguin, RRP $14.95): We all have obsessions: for some of us it’s the quite sensible compulsion to buy designer handbags, for others it’s collecting stamps or not stepping on cracks on the footpath. This…
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The Rouseabout
Us Kiwis have always been suckers for Aussie farming stories, in book and on TV, so it’s no surprise that Rachael Treasure’s book are proving popular. In this story, loveable larrikan Kate Webster is the star. Kate tends to live…
Getting to know our Sir Ed
Sir Edmund Hillary: An Extraordinary Life, by Alexa Johnston (Penguin NZ, RRP $29.95): There’s probably not a lot you can say about Sir Edmund Hillary that we don’t already know. Sir Ed is the stuff of legend: he scaled the world’s…
Detailed and compelling reading
To Cry Inside, by Lesley Martin (Penguin): We all know the story of Lesley Martin, the voluntary euthanasia campaigner who became a household name when she was jailed for the attempted murder of her terminally ill mother. Martin has already written…
Want answers? This bloke has them
Little Red Book of Sales Answers, by Jeffrey Gitomer (Penguin, $24.95): This is the companion book to the Little Red Book of Selling and claims to contain 99.5 real-world answers that make sense, make sales and make money. I haven’t actually taken the…
Tough childhood gives story depth
Kaitlyn, by Kevin Lewis (Penguin, $25): As six-year-old Kaitlyn’s family is torn apart and her life changed forever when she witnesses her alcoholic father almost kill her little brother Christopher. The toddler survives the attack and after being taken into care…