Freelance journalist-columnist Gwynne Dyer has a knack of taking complex, controversial stories and offering a fresh view. From the Middle East to Afghanistan, Dyer has a depth of understanding that is seemingly unparalleled and he has the ability to take incredibly complex issues and explain them in simple terms. This is a rare talent, and is […]
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This cracking little guide to the fictional Central American country of San Sombrero is the latest offering in the Jetlag Travel Guide series. Described as the birthplace of tinted sunglasses and sequins by its Aussie creators, San Sombrero boasts such highlights as the beach resort town of Aguazura, home to the first-ever Madame Tussaud’s Brazilian Wax Museum
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This is the companion book to the Little Red Book of Selling and claims to contain 99.5 real-world answers that make sense, make sales and make money. I haven’t actually taken the advice offered for a test drive so I cant vouch for its accuracy or effectiveness but I can promise you that this little book is incredibly upbeat
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When two young girls are abducted and killed, reporter Camille Preaker is sent back to her home town to cover the case. The daughter of one of the richest families in the town, Camille, is haunted by a childhood tragedy that estranged her from her mother but suddenly finds herself back in her family’s mansion, re-acquainting herself
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Compiled by Kiwi author Terence Hodgson, Eyes Like Butterflies is a collection of similes and metaphors drawn from modern English literature and presented in dictionary form. There are more than 3000 entries, covering everything from abstraction (She had had the distracted and disorganised air you might expect from somebody who was related to the Queen) to wrists
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Off the Peruvian coast a fisherman drowns, dragged to his death by a mysterious underwater current. He is not alone. During the coming weeks, thousands like him will die each day — killed at sea and on the beaches by oceans that no longer behave in a way that mankind can predict. These deaths are not
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There’s been quite a buzz both online and off about this book, which delves into the world of auction website Trade Me as a basis for its plot. A trader auctions off her father’s jacket, not knowing it contains something important. The story then follows the jacket’s travels as it is passed between traders and
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If you’re planning on taking yourself off for a cruise, Catherine Stewart has all the inside info you could possibly need. As a qualified cruise specialist and with eight years’ experience in the travel industry, the author knows her stuff. She kicks off by explaining what the ratings of the ships mean and how to
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When Mt Tarawera erupted early on the morning of June 10, 1886, 153 people died and New Zealand lost what was at the time the country’s greatest tourist attraction, the spectacular pink and white terraces. Widely acclaimed as the eighth wonder of the world, the terraces were magnificent naturally formed staircases that rose from Lake
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Dads have a knack of being funny — whether it’s in a corny way or fits more in the realm of truly, side-splittingly hilarious. Maybe it’s a side effect of fatherhood, all the confusion and confuddlement of raising younguns serving to make fathers think outside the square. Sometimes even outside sanity. Fathers’ Wit is a collection
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