August 2014

■ REVIEW: Stop the Train! I Want to Get On!
Nostalgia keeps on track

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 something special about train travel and train enthusiasts then to be quite passionate about their love of the rails. Hutchins was hooked from an early age, going on […]

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■ REVIEWS: Optimum Health the Paleo Way | The Thermogenic Diet
Healthy eating begins, as it always did, with real food

Advice, guides & self-help, Home & garden

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 really nothing new under the sun. The paleo way is is all about a more natural, seasonal way of eating. The author says following this eating plan

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■ REVIEW: Without Warning
Author doesn’t let injuries define him

People

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, standing on two prosthetic legs. Damien Thomlinson was an Australian Special Forces soldier whose life changed irretrievably while on patrol in Afghanistan. One minute he’s your

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■ REVIEW: New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame
Book pays homage to our sporting heroes

Sport

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 a rugby fan. But there are other incredible New Zealand sportspeople out there, doing us

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■ REVIEW: Victory
High-flying Kiwis played important role in WW2

History, NZ books

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 often deadly role played by those Kiwi air crews during the final stages of that war. From the invasion of Europe in 1944 to the fall of Berlin in 1945,

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■ REVIEW: Jim Henson: The Biography
The man behind the muppets

People

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 by award- winning writer and biographer Brian Jay Jones, is a truly comprehensive read about the legend that was Jim Henson and has been compiled with unprecedented

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■ REVIEW: Stop the Train! I Want to Get On!Nostalgia keeps on track

■ REVIEWS: Optimum Health the Paleo Way | The Thermogenic DietHealthy eating begins, as it always did, with real food

■ REVIEW: Without WarningAuthor doesn’t let injuries define him

■ REVIEW: New Zealand Sports Hall of FameBook pays homage to our sporting heroes

■ REVIEW: VictoryHigh-flying Kiwis played important role in WW2