Weta Workshop extraordinaire, Daniel Falconer, has compiled this third book in The Hobbit Chronicles series and it is simply gorgeous. Beautiful to touch and to hold, it covers a myriad concept arts, design, illustrations, descriptions of set pieces and development etches of the second Hobbit film. As you open the book, you notice each page, […]
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Winning the Victoria Cross requires actions beyond what most normal men or women would ever consider undertaking. There was nothing in the young Mark Donaldson’s life to suggest he would become anything other than an Aussie larrikin. There was the drinking, surfing, snowboarding and a bit of trouble-making, along with a significant attitude, but nothing
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In this new Temperance “Tempe” Brennan novel from world-class forensic anthropologist and No 1 best-selling author Kathy Reichs, it appears that the blood-thirsty killer who escaped justice in 2004’s Monday Mourning is back. Anique Pomerleau kidnapped and murdered a string of girls in Canada but she managed to get away, eluding the cops and disappearing,
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This is an odd little tale. Published posthumously, the manuscript gathered dust in the Hocken Library archive for many years. Illustrated to great – and somewhat dark effect – The Mijo Tree tells the deceptively simple tale of a small seed who wishes to see more than her small corner of the Earth. An ill
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Irish comedian Brendon O’Carroll has taken the world by storm as with his gender bending performances on our television and movie screens so it should come as no surprise that his alter-ego Agnes Brown is now ready to take her place on our bookshelves. O’Carroll is so believable as mammy extraordinaire Mrs Brown, that seeing
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Someone has to be the best, the fastest, biggest, brightest, smallest or some other -est word, and the good folk at Guinness have made it their mission to bring us every single one of them. Proclaiming itself to be “officially amazing” (with those very words emblazoned across the front cover), this book is packed full
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No figure in world sport has fallen as far, or as hard, as Lance Edward Armstrong. Tiger Woods might have lost much of the esteem the world held him in following revelations of his truly epic sexual adventures, but Armstrong had transcended his sport to become a beacon of hope for cancer sufferers and survivors
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Seven years after first being published, this expanded and revised edition was back in the bookstores just in time for an appearance under last year’s Christmas tree, and this year it’s still a fine option for anyone on your pressie list who appreciates the beauty of our little piece of paradise. There are plenty of
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Award-winning writer and illustrator Gavin Bishop has produced what is likely to become a well-loved classic in the adorable Teddy One-Eye, The Autobiography of a Teddy Bear. Our hero, Teddy One-Eye has had a rough life, being dragged around, chewed and trampled. Over time he’s lost an eye and sometimes even gets left outside at
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If you are in any way squeamish, you might just struggle to get past the first few pages of this gruesome but compelling thriller by French author Pierre Lemaitre. However, it’s worth the effort and if you make it past those first awful moments, you’ll be rewarded with a book that keeps the adrenalin flowing
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