This is the companion book to the Little Red Book of Selling and claims to contain 99.5 real-world answers that make sense, make sales and make money. I haven’t actually taken the advice offered for a test drive so I cant vouch for its accuracy or effectiveness but I can promise you that this little book is incredibly upbeat […]
When two young girls are abducted and killed, reporter Camille Preaker is sent back to her home town to cover the case. The daughter of one of the richest families in the town, Camille, is haunted by a childhood tragedy that estranged her from her mother but suddenly finds herself back in her family’s mansion, re-acquainting herself
■ REVIEW: Sharp Objects
Lots of surprises in this cracking read Read Post »
Compiled by Kiwi author Terence Hodgson, Eyes Like Butterflies is a collection of similes and metaphors drawn from modern English literature and presented in dictionary form. There are more than 3000 entries, covering everything from abstraction (She had had the distracted and disorganised air you might expect from somebody who was related to the Queen) to wrists
■ REVIEW: Eyes Like Butterflies
A world of details and descriptions Read Post »
Off the Peruvian coast a fisherman drowns, dragged to his death by a mysterious underwater current. He is not alone. During the coming weeks, thousands like him will die each day — killed at sea and on the beaches by oceans that no longer behave in a way that mankind can predict. These deaths are not
■ REVIEW: The Swarm
Delightfully creepy deep-sea mystery Read Post »
There’s been quite a buzz both online and off about this book, which delves into the world of auction website Trade Me as a basis for its plot. A trader auctions off her father’s jacket, not knowing it contains something important. The story then follows the jacket’s travels as it is passed between traders and
■ REVIEW: Trade Me the Novel
Trade Me tale doesn’t quite hit the mark Read Post »
If you’re planning on taking yourself off for a cruise, Catherine Stewart has all the inside info you could possibly need. As a qualified cruise specialist and with eight years’ experience in the travel industry, the author knows her stuff. She kicks off by explaining what the ratings of the ships mean and how to
■ REVIEW: A Guide for First Time Cruisers
A cruisy existence Read Post »
When Mt Tarawera erupted early on the morning of June 10, 1886, 153 people died and New Zealand lost what was at the time the country’s greatest tourist attraction, the spectacular pink and white terraces. Widely acclaimed as the eighth wonder of the world, the terraces were magnificent naturally formed staircases that rose from Lake
■ REVIEW: Tarawera
A chronicle of Mother Nature’s damage Read Post »
Dads have a knack of being funny — whether it’s in a corny way or fits more in the realm of truly, side-splittingly hilarious. Maybe it’s a side effect of fatherhood, all the confusion and confuddlement of raising younguns serving to make fathers think outside the square. Sometimes even outside sanity. Fathers’ Wit is a collection
■ REVIEW: Fathers' Wit
Dads, just for a laugh Read Post »
Gerry Evans fell in love with the sea growing up in the Welsh seaside town of Aberystwyth and at the age of 16, he joined the British merchant navy and Shipping Out: A Merchant Sailor’s Tale is his story. Evans was a boy when he shipped out but along the way matured into a man
■ REVIEW: Shipping Out
Coming-of-age tale Read Post »
Author Mary Higgins Clark has added yet another bestseller to her seemingly endless list with this story about, once again, a secret from the past that doesn’t want to stay in the past. A little girl wakes in the night to hear her mother struggling with her stepfather. She takes her late father’s gun from
Same again but I suppose it works Read Post »
