Author name: Mark Hotton

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

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: Moon Over Martinborough
How an American city boy became a Kiwi farmer

General non-fiction, NZ books

We have all had our moments where we have thought “this could be the life”. You may have stood in a paddock or an orchard, the sun streaming down, looking at a view that people pay to see and thought, “yes, I could do this”. In reality, few take that idyllic lifestyle plunge . .

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