This chunky little hardback represents real value for money and is perfect for everyone who wants to begin their own boating career or who wants to add to their knowledge. Written in the same style as his previous bestseller on the art of fishing, this book covers everything from how to buy a boat through […]
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This is a New Zealand environmental thriller with a message or two. Set in the Waikato, Sam Miro is a young, highly regarded researcher working on environment monitoring. When some of his study farms start to show odd results, further investigation uncovers sinister forces at work. Someone has deliberately created an environmental disaster in order
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Sydney Morning Herald journalist Peter FitzSimons takes readers into the heart of the chaotic and devastating Gallipoli campaign in this insightful and comprehensive book. On 25 April 1915, Allied forces landed on the Gallipoli Peninsula in present-day Turkey to secure the sea route between Britain and France in the west and Russia in the east.
Aussie journalist gives Gallipoli insight Read Post »
It’s getting to that time of the year when you are perhaps thinking about Christmas gifts for family and friends overseas, and you’d be hard pressed to find something that represents better value that this book. Published last year but still every bit as relevant, and subtitled “a Celebration of our National Treasures & Pleasures”,
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Anyone attending Anzac Day services will be left in no doubt that there is growing interest among younger Kiwis in our military history. Each year, it seems there are more and more families at these services and there is a new-found appreciation for the sacrifices made by so many all those years ago. Two books
Soldiers’ snaps bring war home Read Post »
Advertising plays a big role in our memories of growing up and this book looks at how New Zealand’s advertising industry has grown up with us. Subtitled “tall tales from the legends of New Zealand advertising”, this is a look back at the history of advertising in New Zealand and the often larger-than-life characters who
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Being a relatively young nation, our history is naturally a tad shorter that that of some of the other countries on this planet but that doesn’t mean there isn’t a story worth telling. In this new edition of the best-selling Short History of New Zealand, journalist, author and social commentator Gordon McLauchlan adds a few
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For the James Bond fans out there, the news that William Boyd was planning to pen a followup Bond novel was probably pretty exciting and, for the most part, he has delivered something that stacks up quite favourably against Ian Fleming’s original books. This story takes place in 1969 and, while it spans three continents,
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This little book offers a fascinating trip down the memory lane of pills, potions and, in some cases I am sure, snake-oil treatments. We would all like to think we are a pretty enlightened bunch, and that we can easily separate the dodgy from the useful. However, a quick flick through this book shows that
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As is probably obvious from this blog, I read a lot, and a lot of the books I read are crime novels. It seems like Ruth Rendell has been around forever, and given the fact that her first book (From Doon With Death, the first book in the Inspector Wexford series) was published two years
Surprisingly fresh murder mystery Read Post »
