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…
Month: May 2014
Four-legged survival stories celebrated
Quake Dogs, text by Laura Sessions, photography by Craig Bullock (Random House, RRP $35): This sweetly addictive book features the heart-warming stories of Christchurch dogs. After the devastating Canterbury quakes, we heard the many stories of survival and loss that…
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…
European take on young NZ
An Indescribable Beauty: Letters home to German From Wellington, NZ (1859-1862), by Friedrich August Krull (Awa Press, RRP $38): A century and a half ago, a young German man set sail on a four-month journey on the Swedish ship the…
50 shades of political humour
50 Shades of Key: The Unofficial John Key Joke Book, by Paul Little (Paul Little Books, RRP $15): Whatever your politics, you’ll find it hard not to have a giggle at a few of the offerings in this little book.…