Where’s Wally? The Great Picture Hunt and The Totally Essential Travel Collection, both by Martin Handford (Walker Books, RRP $16 and $39): It’s school holiday time so if you’re want something to keep the youngsters occupied, this is it. Wally…
Category: General non-fiction
Bookmarks: A selection of NZ books
Finding the Path by Kelvin Cruickshank with Margie Thomson (Penguin, RRP $42): Celebrity psychic medium Kelvin Cruickshank is well known through his work on the television programme Sensing Murder but he also writes books on psychic ability. In this, his…
The stories behind our stamps
It’s In The Post, by Richard Wolfe (Craig Potton Publishing, RRP $40): All the emailing and texting going on these days must make it hard for the budding stamp collectors out there, which is really a shame. When I was…
Chilling narrative of tragic family dysfunction
Breaking Silence: Macsyna King and the Kahui Twins, by Ian Wishart (Howling at the Moon, RRP $40): It is an astonishing fact of modern media that a Facebook site set up by a guy opposing Double Down burgers one month…
Strong opinions won’t disappoint
The World According To Clarkson Volume 4: How Hard Can it Be? by Jeremy Clarkson (Michael Joseph, RRP $42): This is the fourth volume in the bestselling “World According to Clarkson” series by Top Gear frontman Jeremy Clarkson. His columns…
When the cat’s away …
Lost Cat: A True Story of Love, Desperation and GPS Technology, by Caroline Paul, illustrated by Wendy MacNaughton (Bloomsbury, RRP $29) Author Caroline Paul has drawn on the real-life experience of having her moggy companion Tibula, also known as Tibby, go…
Carving up her goals
Cleaving, by Julie Powell (Penguin, RRP $37): By now, most people will know the name Julie Powell, her efforts to work her way through Julia Child’s recipes having been immortalised on film in Julie & Julia. This time around Powell…
Cooking up a change
Julie & Julia, by Julie Powell (Penguin, RRP $28): Julie Powell wasn’t happy with her life. Living in a pokey New York apartment and simply getting on with the daily grind, the author felt like life was passing her by.…
A New Zealand passion
Zephyrs and Zodiacs, by Tim Chadwick (HarperCollins, RRP $29.99): We really do have a passion for Zephyrs and Zodiacs in New Zealand and I doubt there are many of us who haven’t either owned one or had parents who owned…
Best, worst and beyond
Guinness World Records 2010 ( RRP $54.99): We all know someone who seems to absorb weird and wonderful facts so here’s the perfect book for all the those sponges of knowledge. This latest Guinness offering is the book of the…