Stop the Train! I Want to Get On! by Graham Hutchins (Exisle, RRP $50): As a boy in the railway town of Te Kuiti, Graham Hutchins spent many hours watching the trains thundering through the town, fascinated by the machines. There’s…
Month: August 2014
Healthy eating begins, as it always did, with real food
Optimum Health the Paleo Way, by Claire Yates (Exisle Publishing, RRP $40): It seems every week there is some new fad diet promising to fight flab in some miraculous way, but the so-called paleo diet is proof that there is…
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,…
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New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame
Following on from the author’s earlier New Zealand Hall of Fame book, this does something that very few other “best Kiwi sporty types” books fail to do: it covers a variety of sports. I’m a proud Kiwi, so naturally I’m…
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…
The man behind the muppets
Jim Henson: The Biography, by Brian Jay Jones (Virgin Books, RRP $40): I grew up with Sesame Street and later the Muppets and it has to be said: Jim Henson was a genius. This biography of the ultimate puppet-master, written…