New books on display at Hurunui District Library from 29 Dec – 5 Jan

 

 

 

 

 “Beyond the front line” by Mike McRoberts

When news is often confined to sound bites and brief backgrounders, some of the best stories behind the news go largely untold. Here, without those constraints, Mike is able to give full, truthful and honest portrayals of these event. Admired for his credibility and willingness to go to the hot spots, in a reporting career spanning 25 years, Mike is best known for his work in some of the world’s most dangerous places, covering conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon, Gaza, East Timor and the Solomon Islands. He has also covered some of the world’s worst natural disasters from tsunamis, to wildfires and earthquakes, including the devastating earthquake in Haiti in 2010, and then, close to home, his informative and compassionate coverage of the Christchurch earthquakes in 2010 and 2011. [Cover]

 

 

 

 “The Scottish prisoner” by Diana Gabaldon

In this highly-anticipated new novel, Diana Gabaldon brings back one of her most compelling characters: the unforgettable Lord John Grey – soldier, gentleman, and no mean hand with a blade. Set in the heart of the eighteenth century, Lord John’s world is one of mystery and menace. Diana Gabaldon brilliantly weaves together the strands of Lord John’s secret and public lives. Capturing the lonely, tormented, and courageous career of a man who fights for his crown, his honor, and his own secrets, Diana Gabaldon delivers breathtaking human drama, proving once again that she can bring history to life in a way few novelists ever have. [Cover]

 

 

 

 “Round the bend” by Jeremy Clarkson

What’s it like to drive a car that’s actively trying to kill you? This and many other burning questions trouble Jeremy Clarkson as he sets out to explore the world from the safety of four wheels. Avoiding the legions of power-crazed traffic wombles attempting to block highway and byway, he: shows how the world of performance cars may be likened to Battersea dog’s home; reveals why St Moritz may be the most bonkers town in all of the world; reminds us that Switzerland is so afraid of snow that any flakes falling on the road are immediately arrested; and argues that washing a car is a waste of time, Funny, globe-trotting, irreverent and sometimes downright rude, “Round the Bend” is packed with curious and fascinating but otherwise hopelessly useless stories and facts about everything under the sun (and just occasionally cars). It’s Jeremy Clarkson at his brilliant best. [Cover]

 

 

 

 “My hollywood” by Mona Simpson

A wonderfully provocative and appealing novel, from the much-loved author of “Anywhere But Here”, her first in ten years. It tells the story of two women whose lives entwine and unfold behind the glittery surface of Hollywood. Claire, a composer and a new mother, comes to LA so her husband can follow his passion for writing television comedy. Suddenly the marriage once a genuine 50/50 arrangement changes, with Paul working long hours and Claire left at home with a baby, William, whom she adores but has no idea how to care for. Lola, a fifty-two-year-old mother of five who is working in America to pay for her own children’s higher education back in the Philippines, becomes their nanny. Lola stabilizes the rocky household and soon other parents try to lure her away. What she sacrifices to stay with Claire and William  remains her own closely guarded secret. In a novel at turns satirical and heartbreaking, where mothers’ modern ideas are given practical overhauls by nannies, we meet Lola’s vast network of fellow caregivers, each with her own story to tell. We see the upstairs competition for the best nanny and the downstairs competition for the best deal, and are forced to ask whether it is possible to buy love for our children and what that transaction costs us all. We look into two contemporary marriages one in America and one in the Philippines and witness their endangerment, despite the best of intentions. “My Hollywood” is a tender, witty, and resonant novel that provides the profound pleasures readers have come to expect from Mona Simpson, here writing at the height of her powers. [Cover]

 

 

 

 ”Billy Connolly’s Route 66″ by Billy Connolly

The best-loved comedian in Britain heads off on the most famous highway in the world on an unforgettable journey. Having always dreamed about taking a trip on the legendary Route 66, Billy Connolly is finally heading off on the ride of a lifetime. Travelling all 2,488 miles of this epic road, known as ‘The Main Street ofAmerica’, the Big Yin will share the experiences of the countless travellers who have taken the journey before him. The tales he’ll gather on the way, from the skyscrapers of Chicago through the Wild West badlands of Oklahoma and Texas, and on to the beaches of the Pacific coast, will tell the story of modern America. And they might just inspire a few readers to get on their bikes as well. With his unrivalled instinct for a good story, and the affability that has endeared him to millions of fans, Billy is the ultimate companion for the ultimate road trip. [Cover]

Other titles on display this week :

“The art of Footrot flats” by Murray Ball

“The camera never lies” by Tess Daly

“Explosive eighteen” by Janet Evanovich

“Casper the commuting cat” by Susan Finden

“Knitted fairies” by Fiona McDonald

“Dead centre” by Andy McNabb

“Initiate’s trial” by Janny Wurts

To reserve any of these items please contact your local library or email info@hurunuilibraries.govt.nz

 Avril

New books on display at Hurunui District Library from 22 Dec – 29 Dec

 

 

 

 ”The haunting” by Alan Titchmarsh”

How can the mysterious disappearance of Anne Flint in 1816 and the drowning of a young girl in a chalk stream so long ago possibly affect the life of schoolteacher Harry Flint some two centuries later? Having left his job and with a failed marriage behind him, Harry begins to research his ancestors. The deeper he digs, the more he realises that the past is closer than he had ever imagined. The Haunting is a story of love and betrayal, intrigue and murder. Where people are not what they seem, and the past is no more predictable than the future…[Cover]

 

 

 

“All fall down : Christchurch’s lost chimneys” by Geoff Rice

A house without a chimney doesn’t really look like a home. Yet thousands of Christchurch houses no longer have a chimney after the earthquakes of 2010 and 2011. The streets look strangely different without their familiar vertical accents. While this book was prompted by the Christchurch earthquake of September 2010, its author has long had a fascination with chimneys. He grew up in the smoggy Christchurch of the 1950s, not far from the Gasworks, and brick chimneys were all around him, both industrial and domestic, silhouetted against the red winter sunsets. He then noted the variety of British and European chimney pots seen on his travels, and realised that Christchurch had its own unique type, the Homebush pot. The book was first written over the summer of 2010, but then came the devastating February 2011 earthquake, with serious loss of life, and text and photographs alike had to be revisited. Many of the chimneys photographed after September were destroyed in February. This book is a visual history of Christchurch chimneys – domestic, commercial and industrial, most of which no longer exist. While noting the quirky and unusual, it also attempts to document the typical styles of successive periods, from late Victorian to Art Deco and the latest versions on new houses that serve as reminders of the diverse heritage of the European chimney. [Cover]

 

 

 

“11.22.63.” by Stephen King

What if you could go back in time and change the course of history?  What if the watershed moment you could change was the JFK assassination?  11/22/63, the date that Kennedy was shot – unless …King takes his protagonist Jake Epping, a high school English teacher from Lisbon Falls, Maine, 2011, on a fascinating journey back to 1958 – from a world of  mobile phones and iPods to a new world of Elvis and JFK, of Plymouth Fury cars and Lindy Hopping, of a troubled loner named Lee Harvey Oswald and a beautiful high school librarian named Sadie Dunhill, who becomes the love of Jake’s life – a life that transgresses all the normal rules of time. With extraordinary imaginative power, King weaves the social, political and popular culture of his baby-boom American generation into a devastating exercise in escalating suspense. [Cover]

 

 

 

 “Summits and shadows” by Graham Langton

Mountaineering in New Zealand has a long and proud history of discovery, endeavour and success. One of its most significant pioneers was Jack Clarke, who from 1893 to 1914 climbed, guided, explored and organised trips into the mountains. Just a youngster when he made the first ascent of New Zealand’s greatest peak, Aoraki Mt Cook, Clarke’s activity encompassed the full breadth of mountaineering. This humble, quietly spoken man was one of our foremost alpine guides before the First World War, and as the first Chief Guide at the Hermitage he set the pattern of guiding for many years to come. As a climber he made many first ascents, and while working on the Geological Survey and leading other expeditions he also explored uncharted valleys and ranges throughout the South Island. This mountain man played a major part in the development of New Zealanders’ knowledge of their own country, and of mountaineering as a magnificent pursuit. [Cover]

 

 

 

 “I am half-sick of shadows” by Alan Bradley

With the family finances in a parlous state, Colonel de Luce has, with deep misgivings, rented Buckshaw to a film company for a location shooting.  Naturally enough, director, crew and stars do nothing to endear themselves to  the household – especially the servants – until, when a heavy snowfall cuts off Bishop’s Lacey from the rest of the world, the actors are talked into staging a benefit performance in the parish hall.  But old jealousies surface, and the leading lady is murdered. Flavia, who has been enlisted to help out behind the scenes, finds herself up to her knees in snow – and murder! [Cover]

 Other titles on display this week :

“The broken book” by Fiona Farrell

“The NZ flower garden” by Rachel Vogan

“The house of silk” by Anthony Horowitz

“Letter from a stranger” by Barbara Taylor Bradford

“Christmas magic” by Cathy Kelly

“Awakening” by William Horwood

“Coming of the storm” by W. Michael Gear & kathleen O’Neal Gear

To reserve any of these items please contact your local library or email info@hurunuilibraries.govt.nz

 Avril

New books on display at Hurunui District Library from 15 Dec – 22 Dec

 

 

 

 “Fleur : the life and times of pioneering restauranteur Fleur Sullivan” by Fleur Sullivan

Fleur Sullivan is a South Island legend, the culinary maven responsible for not one but two iconic local restaurants – Olivers in Clyde and the eponymous Fleurs Place in Moeraki – and now at the age of 72 she’s running a third, The Loan and Merc in her hometown of Oamaru. Her eventful career has spanned more than 40 years, during which time she’s transformed two sleepy towns into international destinations. Fleur is brimming with great stories, anecdotes, reminiscences, the conversations had round her table and friendships formed in her establishments. This memoir chronicles her early life cooking in a pub on the West Coast, through to setting up Dunstan House in Clyde and on to the heady days of the restaurant scene in the 1970s in Queenstown. Drawing on this range of influences, Fleur then returned toClydeand embarked on the 20-year journey that was Olivers, using local produce and products at a time when no one else was doing so. From there she went to Moeraki and opened her world-renowned fish restaurant Fleur’s Place. Everything Fleur does is touched by her warmth, vision and enthusiams, making her places the place to be. IIlustrated with new photography by Aaron McLean, plus Fleur’s own photographs and ephemera. [Cover]

 

 

 

 “That woman : the life of Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor” by Anna Sebba 

This will be the first serious yet sympathetic book by a female biographer to explain the story of how an American divorcee became a hate figure for allegedly ensnaring a British King from his throne. It focuses on the core conflict of her life in the 1930s, with particular reference to her impoverished American childhood as a motivation for her ambition. ‘That woman’, so called by her sister-in-law the new Queen Elizabeth, was born Bessie Wallis Warfield in 1895 in Baltimore, and she endured a childhood of relative obscurity which sharpened a burning desire to rise above her circumstances. To win in the game of life was her unequivocal aim. ‘That woman’ was not only one of the most talked about women of her generation. In death she has become one of the most written about and reviled. But she has also become a symbol of female empowerment as well as a style icon. And yet Wallis Simpson remains an enigma. A witty woman who lived on her wits. ‘A woman can never be too rich or too thin’ – one of her aphorisms – is all that some people know of her. Neither beautiful nor brilliant, both her assumed as well as her known moral transgressions add to her aura and dazzle. Accused of fascist sympathies and Nazi friends, she is an object of fascination that has increased with the years. [Cover]

 

 

 

  “So brilliantly clever : Parker, Hulme and the murder that shocked the world” by Peter Graham

The brutal, premeditated murder of Honorah Parker in 1954 in a lonely park by her 16-year-old daughter Pauline and Pauline’s 15-year-old friend Juliet Hulme made shock headlines around the world. International media flocked to New Zealand to follow the trial. Still today, the murder remains one of the most interesting criminal cases of all time, and a source of intense public fascination throughout the world – especially since one of the murderers was revealed to be the murder-mystery writer Anne Perry, whose books sell in the millions. Lawyer and true crime writer Peter Graham writes of the secrets and lies that permeated the girls’ families, the bizarre lead-up to the murder, the girls’ conviction and imprisonment, and their lives following their release. He also examines Parker’s and Hulme” actions in the light of modern psychology. In the 1950s the two girls were suspected of lesbianism, and judged and imprisoned as inherently evil. Would this happen today? [Cover]

 

 

 

 ”River Cottage veg every day’ by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall

Why don’t we eat more veg? They’re healthy, cost-effective  and, above all, delicious. Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall believes that it is time  to put this to rights, as he explains in this brilliant new book. He’s come up with an abundance of veg-tastic recipes, including a warm salad of  grilled courgettes, lemon, garlic, mint and mozzarella, a winter giant couscous  salad with herbs and walnuts, radishes with butter and salt,  lemony guacamole, linguine with mint and almond pesto and cherry tomatoes, baby  carrot risotto, new potato gnocchi, a summer stir-fry with green veg, ginger,  garlic and sesame, a winter stir-fry with Brussels sprouts, shiitake mushrooms  and five-spice, a cheesy tomato tart, a spring onion gallette, roast jacket  chips with merguez spices and spiced yoghurt, curried bubble and squeak,  scrambled eggs and asparagus with lemon, tomato gazpacho, pea and parsley soup,  roast squash wedges, baba ganoush, beetroot houmous, spinach pasties and  barbecued corn on the cob. With over 200 recipes and vibrant photography from Simon Wheeler, River Cottage Veg Every Day is a  timely eulogy to the glorious green stuff. [Cover]

 

 

 

 “Beat till stiff : a woman’s recipe for living” by Peta Mathias

Razor-witted, wise and just a touch scandalous, Beat till Stiff covers topics that Peta considers important, entertaining, naughty or personal. With chapters on why redheads have more fun, how egg whites provide a metaphor for living and how Peta stopped strangling her mother, the eagerly awaited follow-up to Can We Help it if We’re Fabulous? and Just in Time to be too Late, is a book about the universal themes that affect all women. [Cover]

Other titles on display this week :

“The christmas angel” by Marcia Willett

“Hotel Vendome” by Danielle Steel

“Dublin dead” by Gerard O’Donovan

“The next always” by Nora Roberts

“More than bombs and bandages” by Kirsty Harris

“Zero day” by David Baldacci 

“Before the storm ” by Peter Robinson

To reserve any of these items please contact your local library or email info@hurunuilibraries.govt.nz

 Avril

New books on display at Hurunui District Library from 8 Dec – 15 Dec

 

 

 

 

 “Riverstone kitchen : recipes from a chef’s garden” by Bevan Smith

Riverstone Kitchen, the Cuisine New Zealand Restaurant of the Year in 2010, embodies seasonal cooking, with simplicity the key, using the best produce available. The restaurant is located on the Waitaki Plains, 12 km north of Oamaru in North Otago, where cold, crisp winters and hot, dry summers make it the perfect place for cultivating a good range of produce. Riverstone Kitchen is organized along seasonal lines and is designed to inspire both cooks and gardeners to make the most of their local seasonal produce. Short of booking a table at Riverstone Kitchen, the Riverstone Kitchen cookbook offers the next best way of sharing in the unique Riverstone experience. [Cover]

 

 

 

“Ghastly business” by Louise Levene

1929. A girl is strangled in a London alley, the mangled corpse of a peeping Tom is found in a railway tunnel and the juicy details of the latest trunk murder are updated hourly in fresh editions of the evening papers. Into this insalubrious world steps Dora Strang, a doctor’s daughter with an unmaidenly passion for anatomy. Denied her own medical career, she moves into lodgings with a hilarious, insecticidal landlady and begins life as filing clerk to the country’s pre-eminent pathologist, Alfred Kemble. Dora is thrilled by the grisly post-mortems and the headline-grabbing court cases and more fascinated still by the pathologist himself: an enigmatic war hero with bottle-green eyes and an air of sardonic glamour – the embodiment of all her girlish fantasies. But Dora’s job holds more than a few surprises, not least of which is finding herself frequently under the watchful gaze – and occasionally wandering hands – of the distinguished Dr Kemble. As things take a distinctly ghastly turn, both in one of the department’s major cases and in Dora’s own life, the newspaper reporters sharpen their pencils in morbid anticipation …But can the impressionable Miss Strang emerge unscathed? “Ghastly Business” conjures the world of interwarLondonwith gleeful vigour: a time when a woman’s body was only mentioned if someone had dismembered it; when the scars of the Great War were still fresh and when a pretty young bluestocking needed to tread very carefully in order to avoid becoming yet another of its casualties. [Cover]

 

 

 

“The kiwi man cave” by Steve Hale 

Every Kiwi bloke either has a man cave, or craves one. And there are all kinds of man caves out there – from large sheds, full of tools or memorabilia, to blokes-only private enclaves, to nothing more than an armchair in the corner of a room. This books invites you in, in full colour, to over 50 man caves from all around New Zealand. [Cover]

 

 

 

“The litigators” by John Grisham

The Partners at Finley & Figg – all two of them – often refer to themselves as “a boutique law firm.” “Boutique,” as in chic, selective and prosperous. They are, of course, none of these things. What they are is a two-bit operation always in search of their big break, ambulance chasers who’ve been in the trenches much too long making much too little. Their specialties, so to speak, are quickie divorces and DUIs, with the occasional jackpot of an actual car wreck thrown in. After twenty plus years together Oscar Finley and Wally Figg bicker like an old married couple, but somehow continue to scratch out a half-decent living from their seedy offices in southwest Chicago. And then change comes their way. More accurately, it stumbles in. David Zinc, a young but already burned-out attorney, walks out of his fast-track career at a fancy downtown firm, goes on a serious bender and finds himself literally at the doorstep of our “boutique firm”. Once David sobers up and comes to grips with the fact that he’s suddenly unemployed, any job – even one with Finley & Figg – looks OK to him. With their new junior partner on board, F&F are ready to tackle a really big case, a case that could make them rich without requiring them to actually practice much law. An extremely popular drug, Krayoxx , the  no. 1 cholesterol reducer for the dangerously overweight, produced by Varrick Labs, a giant pharmaceutical company with annual sales of $25 billion, has recently come under fire as several patients taking it have suffered heart attacks. Wally smells money. A little online research confirms Wally’s suspicions – a huge plaintiff’s firm inFloridais putting together a class action suit against Varrick. All Finley & Figg have to do is find a handful of people who had a heart attack while taking Krayoxx, convince them to become clients, join the class action, and ride along to fame and fortune. With any luck, they won’t even have to enter a courtroom! It almost seems too good to be true. And it is. [Cover]

 

 

 

“Lady Almina and the real Downton Abbey” by Fiona Lady Carnarvon

Lady Fiona Carnarvon became the chatelaine of Highclere Castle – the setting of the hit series Downton Abbey – eight years ago. In that time she’s become fascinated by the rich history of Highclere, and by the extraordinary people who lived there over the centuries. One person particularly captured Fiona’s imagination – Lady Almina, the 5th Countess of Carnarvon. Almina was the illegitimate daughter of banking tycoon Alfred de Rothschild. She was his only daughter and he doted on her. She married George, the Earl of Carnarvon, at 19 with an enormous dowry. At first, life at Highclere was a dizzying mix of sumptuous banquets for 500 and even the occasional royal visitor.  Almina oversaw 80 members of staff – many of whom came from families who had worked at Highclere for generations. But when the First World War broke out, life at Highclere changed forever. History intervened and Almina and the staff of Highclere were thrown into one of the most turbulent times of the last century. Almina was forced to draw on her deepest reserves of courage in order to ensure her family, the staff and the castle survived. This is the remarkable story of a lost time. But Highclere remains and in this book, Fiona weaves Almina’s journey into the heritage and history of one of England’s most exquisite Victorian castles. [Cover]

Other titles on display this week :

“Devil’s gate” by Clive Cussler

“Daughters of Erebus” by Paul Holmes

“Horncastle’s suitcase” by Graeme Horncastle

“Absolutely” by Joanna Lumley

“Second nature” by Jacquelyn Mitchard

“The price to pay” by Lynda Page

“Hereward” by James Wilde

To reserve any of these items please contact your local library or email info@hurunuilibraries.govt.nz

 Avril

New books on display at Hurunui District Library from 1 Dec – 8 Dec

 

 

 

 ”The yellow duster sisters” by Susan Kennaway

1939. Nine-year-old Susie and her sister Gyll live in Watford and all week look forward to their Saturday shopping expedition to Woolworths, accompanied by their nanny Alice, to buy something nice for Mummy. But as war breaks out across Europe, Susie and Gyll are evacuated to Africa. Alone on a dusty continent, the sisters find little to like about their new way of life and get no sympathy from their guardians, especially devout Aunt Geraldine (or ‘Dor-dor’) who forces them to wear patched-up clothes and be in bed by six o’clock. Feeling increasingly abandoned as the years pass and letters from home stop arriving, the sisters dream desperately of escape and cling fervently to their memories of idyllic England. When they do finally reach British shores, only a few weeks after D-Day, there is no one to meet them at Liverpool Docks. After getting to their father’s new home in Gloucestershire, they find a strange woman living with him and gradually learn that their mother has moved away and joined the Polish army. Life only gets stranger when they are sent to Cheltenham Ladies College, where English boarding school life is possibly even worse than their years of exile in Africa. Wonderfully evocative, funny and charming, Susan Kennaway writes about the difficult challenges of growing up during the Second World War with rare honesty and insight. The Yellow Duster Sisters is a moving and unusual exploration of the often ignored, and often destructive, nature of shifting war-time family relationships. [Cover]

 

 

 

“The apothecary’s daughter” by Charlotte Betts

Susannah Leyton has grown up behind the counter of her father’s apothecary shop, surrounded by the resinous scents of lavender, rosemary, liquorice and turpentine. More learned than any apprentice, she concocts soothing medicines and ointments with great skill. Content with her life, Susannah is shocked when her widowed father announces his intentions to marry again, and later becomes caught in a battle of wills with her new step-mother. When she receives a proposal of marriage from handsome and charming merchant Henry Savage, she believes her prayers have been answered and resolves to be a good wife to him. But Henry is a complex and troubled man, haunted by his memories of growing up inBarbados. As the plague sweeps through the city, tragedy strikes, and the secrets of Henry’s past begin to unfold …[Cover]

  “Italia” by Jo Seagar

Taking her inspiration from her cook school in beautiful Umbria, Jo Seagar shows us how to make classic Italian recipes the easy way. In her inimitable way Jo teaches us that authentic doesn’t have to mean difficult. She demystifies gnocchi, risotto, making your own pasta and pizza bases, and many other classics of Italian cooking through simple step-by-step instructions.  The book takes you through an Italian feast: antipasto (eg crostini with gorgonzola and tapenade); small first courses (eg fava beans with mint, garlic and prosciutto); salads and vegetables (eg aubergine involtini); gnocchi, risotto and polenta (eg bacon, sage and butternut risotto); pasta (eg farfalle with tomato, basil and broccoli butter); breads and pizza (eg focaccia); meat, chicken, game and fish (eg chicken saltimbocca); desserts (eg mama’s tiramisu); baking (eg florentines); and drinks (eg papa’s limoncello). With over 100 mouth-watering recipes, this is THE Italian cooking bible for New Zealanders.  The divine photography taken on location at a wonderful villa in a small town in Umbria means that this cookbook is also wonderful armchair travel. It’s a delight to savour, and the recipes are ones you’ll return to again and again. [Cover]

 

 

 

 “Snuff” by Terry Pratchett

According to the writer of the best-selling crime novel ever to have been published in the city of Ankh-Morpork, it is a truth universally acknowledged that a policeman taking a holiday would barely have had time to open his suitcase before he finds his first corpse. And Commander Sam Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch is on holiday in the pleasant and innocent countryside, but not for him a mere body in the wardrobe. There are many, many bodies and an ancient crime more terrible than murder. He is out of his jurisdiction, out of his depth, out of bacon sandwiches, and occasionally snookered and out of his mind, but never out of guile. Where there is a crime there must be a finding, there must be a chase and there must be a punishment. They say that in the end all sins are forgiven. But not quite all…[Cover]

 

 

 

 “The last jump” by Elizabeth Benney

Author Elizabeth Benney was a brat of a child. She’s completely candid about it – self-centered, perverse, willful, obstinate …living for her one passionate obsession – horses. It’s a life-story that at last faces up to what we must all confront, that’s if we’re lucky enough to live long enough. What will it be, in our own advancing years, which we will be forced to give up, forever? Will she ever learn to say ‘No more’? Liz Benney portrays her day-to-day life running of their New England horse farm, and the many return visits to her own country,New Zealand. Then there are her accounts of her girlhood, her forays into the Antarctic and into deepest China, and her extraordinary capacity for attracting memorable characters. Throughout it all is the foundation of her marriage to ‘rock solid’ Kiwi mathematician Dave, her family and friends and the undying ‘can do’ spirit of her pioneering New Zealand forbears. Michael Korda, publisher, editor and bestselling author (his biography of T.E. Lawrence) has said: ‘I enjoyed reading this story very much. It is funny, sometimes sad, and full of great stories, exactly what a memoir should be.’ [Cover]

 

Other titles on display this week :

“Ed King” by David Guterson

“The hummingbird and the bear” by Nicholas Hogg

“The trader’s wife” by Anna Jacobs 

“Kill Alex cross” by James Paterson

“Econned” by Yves Smith

“Sleeping with the enemy” by Hal Vaughan

“The department store” by Jan Whitaker

To reserve any of these items please contact your local library or email info@hurunuilibraries.govt.nz

 Avril