Letters From Gallipoli: New Zealand Soldiers Write Home, edited by Glyn Harper (Auckland University Press, RRP $49.95): This latest book by Glyn Harper is one that brings home the trauma, hardship, heartache and horror of living through, and with, a…
Month: October 2011
Kiwi lingo in one book
Oxford Dictionary of New Zealandisms, by Tony Deverson (Oxford University Press, RRP $39.99): If you’ve ever had to explain one of those special Kiwi terms to someone online, or to a visitor from overseas, this might be the perfect book…
A fast and furious series
Last Chance to Die, by Noah Boyd (HarperCollins, RRP $39.99): Noah Boyd is one of those rare authors who not only writes in the crime thriller genre, he also lived it. According to Boyd’s publisher, he is an ex- United…
Still good after 12 years
Simple Cafe Food, by Julie Le Clerc (Penguin, RRP $32): This is a reprinted, repackaged and updated version of Julie Le Clerc’s 1999 book by the same name and I have to say, the recipes still stack up well as…