Here’s a treat for fans: new novella featuring the now world-famous (but, sadly, now retired literary character) of Scandinavian detective Kurt Wallander. After three decades of solving crime, Wallander is ready for a change, and an old farmhouse in the Swedish countryside looks like the perfect place to make that change. Wallander’s life hasn’t exactly […]
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Successful artist Quinn lives with Marcus, who left his wife for her and subsequently lost contact with his young daughter as a result of that breakup. Quinn is busily preparing for an upcoming exhibition, but as the deadline for her exhibition approaches, Callum, a deep-sea diver with a love of the ocean, enters their lives. As
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Kiwi writer Bruce Ansley has followed up his tribute to the legendary Mesopotamia high country station with another collaborative celebration of New Zealand’s beauty. This time Ansley has teamed up with photographer Jane Ussher to the the story of our coastline. The photographs are – of course – beautiful: how could they not be when
It’s our place … and it’s beautiful Read Post »
The second of a planned trio of books featuring the cute Little Truff, a King Charles Cavalier Spaniel. My parents had a Cav: he was decidedly dizzy and even in old age displayed the silliness of a young pup. In later life he lost an eye and their cat was delighted to discover the dog’s
Sweet story with life lessons to boot Read Post »
(Reviewed with help from Seymour and Norman) Kiwis tend to fall into two categories when it comes to our furry, feathered and/or scaled friends: we are either pet-owners or poorly adjusted human beings who are incapable of forming real, meaningful relationships and doomed to a life of loneliness and social ineptitude. OK, perhaps that is
We’re just crazy about our pets Read Post »
There’s no doubt that Prime Minister John Key is a polarising figure in New Zealand politics. There really seems to be no middle ground: people either love him or they hate him, which means it’s unlikely he’ll be one of our “forgotten PMs” like Bill Rowling or Jim Bolger – both of whom many Kiwis would
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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
Nostalgia keeps on track Read Post »
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
Healthy eating begins, as it always did, with real food Read Post »
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
Book pays homage to our sporting heroes Read Post »
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,
High-flying Kiwis played important role in WW2 Read Post »
