Night Vision

■ REVIEW: Night Vision
Excellent NZ fiction for teens

NZ books, Younger readers

Award-winning Mosgiel-based author, Ella West, was born in Invercargill and studied at the University of Otago. In her new thriller for younger readers, 14-year-old Viola has a genetic condition whereby the sun is dangerous, Xeroderma Pigmentosum. Viola’s “living”, therefore, is done at night. She lives on a farm inland from Ashburton and goes for walks […]

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■ REVIEW: Creature Comforts: New Zealanders and their Pets
We’re just crazy about our pets

General non-fiction, NZ books

(Reviewed with help from Seymour and Norman) Kiwis tend to fall into two categories when it comes to our furry, feathered and/or scaled friends: we are either pet-owners or poorly adjusted human beings who are incapable of forming real, meaningful relationships and doomed to a life of loneliness and social ineptitude. OK, perhaps that is

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■ REVIEW: John Key: Portrait of a Prime Minister
Insight into NZ’s head honcho

NZ books, People

There’s no doubt that Prime Minister John Key is a polarising figure in New Zealand politics. There really seems to be no middle ground: people either love him or they hate him, which means it’s unlikely he’ll be one of our “forgotten PMs” like Bill Rowling or Jim Bolger – both of whom many Kiwis would

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■ REVIEWS: Optimum Health the Paleo Way | The Thermogenic Diet
Healthy eating begins, as it always did, with real food

Advice, guides & self-help, Home & garden

It seems every week there is some new fad diet promising to fight flab in some miraculous way, but the so-called paleo diet is proof that there is really nothing new under the sun. The paleo way is is all about a more natural, seasonal way of eating. The author says following this eating plan

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■ REVIEW: New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame
Book pays homage to our sporting heroes

Sport

Following on from the author’s earlier New Zealand Hall of Fame book, this does something that very few other “best Kiwi sporty types” books fail to do: it covers a variety of sports. I’m a proud Kiwi, so naturally I’m a rugby fan. But there are other incredible New Zealand sportspeople out there, doing us

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