Treading Water: Rob Hewitt’s Survival Story, by Rob Hewitt with Aaron Smale (Huia, RRP $30): We all felt for former All Black Norm Hewitt when the news broke back in February, 2006, that his brother Rob was the diver missing…
Month: September 2008
Things that go bump in the night
Unexplained New Zealand, by Julie Miller and Grant Osborn (Reed Publishing, RRP $29.99): We Kiwis there is a real fascination with things that go bump in the night and Julie Miller and Grant Osborn have come up with a book…
Great read … to start with
Trauma, by Patrick McGrath (Bloomsbury, RRP $37.99): I picked up this book and was riveted from the first page. Sadly, by the third chapter the momentum was slowing. By the fifth chapter, my get-up-and-go had got up and gone. I’d…
Help with choosing the right career path
The Career Maze, by Heather Carpenter PhD (New Holland Publishers, RRP $24.99): If you’re a parent, chances are you have on occasions worried about just what the future holds for junior. Every year thousands of youngsters get lost in the…