A little girl finds a stray dog with a note attached to its collar: “HELP US”. She passes the dog on the a vagrant – known as the Walking Man – in the hopes he will be able to find its family. Oliver and Matilda Anchor-Ferrers, along with their daughter Lucia, and their dog, Bear, are […]
■ REVIEW: Wolf
Sinister story cranks up the terror Read Post »
With a PhD in history from Oxford University, Dr Yuval Noah Harari is well-qualified to examine the history of us – the human species. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind looks at the whole of human history, from the very first humans until now, and how our history has shaped us and our environment. Going back
■ REVIEW: Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
What shaped our evolutionary path? Read Post »
Every morning, Rachel catches the same train to the same destination, to her same job, and passes the same houses on her journey. And every morning that train stops at the same signal, overlooking a row of houses and their back gardens. Rachel has started to imagine the lives of the people she sees on
■ REVIEW: The Girl on the Train
A good read, if you ignore the annoyances Read Post »
Where would we be without paper? Sure, the digital age has changed the way we read our books, magazines and newspapers, but we didn’t get there without killing a few trees first and as an avid reader, there’s nothing like that new book smell: I’ll read a book on my iPad from time to time
■ REVIEW: Paper
Hold it in your hands and feel the history Read Post »
Craig Potton Publishing is having a wee name change (to Potton & Burton), in a move the company says reflects the increasingly diverse range of New Zealand books it publishes. The change happens on today and marks the end of a 25-year era for the original name. Photographer Craig Potton founded Craig Potton Publishing in 1989 and
New name for publisher Read Post »
Showcasing a selection of beautiful watercolour paintings by 30 of our leading artists, New Zealand in Watercolour is an affordable coffee table or bookshelf addition for lovers of New Zealand art. Each of the artists has supplied four or five paintings and they are an amazing display of both incredible Kiwi talent, and incredible Kiwi
■ REVIEW: New Zealand in Watercolour
A brush with beauty Read Post »
The school holidays are now all but over, with the young ‘uns heading back to class on Monday, so maybe it’s time to start some pro-active planning for the next break. And with that next break being the biggie for the year – the Christmas holidays – being prepared with some ideas for things to
■ REVIEW: Explore New Zealand
Must-do list a surefire holiday boredom-buster Read Post »
A few years back, Dr Russ Harris came up with the novel concept of the happiness trap and told us all how to avoid it. This little book is a pretty much the same concept but all compacted and now cutely illustrated to make it all easier to follow. If you missed the buzz around
■ REVIEW: The Happiness Trap Pocketbook
Is happiness all that it’s cracked up to be? Read Post »
The Millennium series was a hugely popular trilogy that introduced the world to Lisbeth Salander and Mikael Blomkvist, and now they are set to return in a continuation of the late Stieg Larsson’s epic saga. Yes, that’s right: we’re getting a fourth book, the “girl with the dragon tattoo” is coming back. This much-anticipated continuation
The tattooed lady is coming back Read Post »
After penning books on everything from proverbs to music, Max Cryer has now turned his attention to man’s best friend. Cryer is a bloke who knows a lot of things about a lot of things, and in Every Dog Has Its Day he comes up with (more or less) 1000 interesting and often odd facts
■ REVIEW: Every Dog Has Its Day
Sniffing out dog facts Read Post »
