Terence Cave is a man who has had more than his share of tragedies: his mother’s suicide when he was a young child, his wife’s death during a bungled burglary of their antiques shop and now the death of his son Reuben in an awful accident. It is this final death that proves to be […]
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Law professor Natalie Greco takes on teaching a class at a local prison, which leads to her comfortable life being turned upside-down. A riot breaks out during her class and Nat rushes to help an injured prison guard. Before he dies, he asks her to deliver a message to his wife: “It’s under the floor.”
Growing up, sisters Elle and Lila are as close as they are different: one a mathematical genius with her own sense of style and quirkiness, the other a normal teen trying to fit in with her peers. When Lila is brutally murdered, Elle tries to get on with her life even after the man she
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Richard Branson, the entrepreneur behind the wildly successful Virgin Group, is one of those astonishingly rich people who is also astonishingly adventurous. With all that money he could holiday on any tropical island his heart desired. Hell, he could probably buy a tropical island if he really wanted to. But no, that would be far
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We all felt for former All Black Norm Hewitt when the news broke back in February, 2006, that his brother Rob was the diver missing off the Kapiti Coast. As the hours ticked by, I doubt there was anyone apart from perhaps Rob’s partner who truly believed he was still alive. Family, friends, ex-Navy colleagues
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We Kiwis there is a real fascination with things that go bump in the night and Julie Miller and Grant Osborn have come up with a book to feed that fascination. Here you’ll find what are tagged as true stories of spooks and phantoms, monster sightings, strange lights in the sky, celebrity hauntings and supernatural
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I picked up this book and was riveted from the first page. Sadly, by the third chapter the momentum was slowing. By the fifth chapter, my get-up-and-go had got up and gone. I’d lost interest in the book. It’s the story of Charlie Weir, a bloke who deals with other people’s demons for a living
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If you’re a parent, chances are you have on occasions worried about just what the future holds for junior. Every year thousands of youngsters get lost in the career maze, bogged down by information overload and a lack of direction. The end result is that they end up making the wrong career choices: taking the
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Set in Venice, the descriptive writing in this book is so good it could probably appeal to travel fans every bit as much as murder-mystery fans. It seems this one is part of a series written by Donna Leon that features Commissario Brunetti and his sidekick (for want of a better word) Ispettore Vianello and
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We are fortunate to live in an incredibly picturesque country and that unrivalled beauty is to the fore in this stunning book that shows New Zealand’s development since European settlement. Developed with the help of Fairfax Media newspapers from one end of the country to the other, New Zealand: Portrait of a Nation is a
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