Granny’s Kitchen Baking (Penguin, $19.99): I’m sure everyone out there has a favourite recipe for a never- fail sponge, awesome bikkie or spectacular scone that has come from a mother, grandmother, aunty or friend. It is those recipes that are…
Soldiers’ letters bring home horror
Letters From Gallipoli: New Zealand Soldiers Write Home, edited by Glyn Harper (Auckland University Press, RRP $49.95): This latest book by Glyn Harper is one that brings home the trauma, hardship, heartache and horror of living through, and with, a…
Kiwi lingo in one book
Oxford Dictionary of New Zealandisms, by Tony Deverson (Oxford University Press, RRP $39.99): If you’ve ever had to explain one of those special Kiwi terms to someone online, or to a visitor from overseas, this might be the perfect book…
A fast and furious series
Last Chance to Die, by Noah Boyd (HarperCollins, RRP $39.99): Noah Boyd is one of those rare authors who not only writes in the crime thriller genre, he also lived it. According to Boyd’s publisher, he is an ex- United…
Still good after 12 years
Simple Cafe Food, by Julie Le Clerc (Penguin, RRP $32): This is a reprinted, repackaged and updated version of Julie Le Clerc’s 1999 book by the same name and I have to say, the recipes still stack up well as…