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Saucy gourmet Peta Mathias shares dark and delicious love stories from around the world
MEDIA RELEASE Eat Your Heart Out: Love Stories from Around the World by Peta Mathias Published by Penguin Random House NZ, hardback, 05 November 2019, RRP: $35.00 ‘All you need is love,’ sang the Beetles. Right now, in a world of hate speech, online bullying and worse, we could all…
Medical researcher reveals latest science about medical cannabis
MEDIA RELEASE MEDICAL CANNABIS: A BRIEF GUIDE FOR NEW ZEALANDERS By DR SHAUN HOLT & EMMA DALTON Published by Potton & Burton; September 20, 2019; RRP: $29.99 Medical cannabis is big business – a multi-billion-dollar global industry and grand ‘social experiment,’ that has legislators and Big Pharma sprinting to keep…
Teacher shortages and pay parity impact on Early Childhood Education
MEDIA RELEASE: For immediate release Early Childhood Education (ECE) is in crisis, prompting a group of multi-centre early childhood education owners to take urgent action. The newly formed group, who call themselves Advocates for Early Learning Excellence, comprise nearly one quarter of the ECE sector. Their main objectives are to…
Wild Honey: Reading New Zealand Women’s Poetry
AN EPIC SURVEY OF THE WORK OF NEW ZEALAND WOMEN POETS BY POETRY CHAMPION PAULA GREEN ‘In writing this book, I built a house. I moved through the rooms — collecting, building, recouping, revaluing — in order to travel through a broad range of published poetry. The doors and windows…
WHALE OIL: One man’s fight to save his reputation, then his life
Truth is stranger than fiction. For Auckland businessman Matt Blomfield, the truth is stranger than strange. In May 2012, Blomfield found himself the target of a vicious online attack; the work of Whale Oil blogger Cameron Slater. The attack came out of the blue, destroying Blomfield’s reputation and career, stealing…
Hello Darkness
‘Wry, acute and confessional but, most of all wise.’ WINNER OF BEST PERSONAL ESSAY, VOYAGER MEDIA AWARDS 2018 In late 2017, acclaimed writer Peter Wells was rushed into hospital with aggressive prostate cancer. He began a year of chemotherapy, radiation and hormone treatment. Grappling with the ‘new normal’ of living…
One Man’s Climb: A Journey of Trauma, Tragedy and Triumph on K2
MEDIA RELEASE “One Man’s Climb is a remarkably honest and transparent account of the challenges, both externally and internally, that anyone who dares to take it on experiences. I congratulate Adrian for this fascinating read, for attempting K2 and for becoming one of only a tiny handful of Britons who…
Young Queen: The story of a girl who conquered the world
MEDIA RELEASE YOUNG QUEEN: THE STORY OF A GIRL WHO CONQUERED THE WORLD Published by Mary Egan Publishing, 15 March 2018, RRP: $34.99 “You’re not only a choreographer. You’re everything. So glad I met you. You’re a QUEEN!!!!! Don’t u ever forget it. I could never thank u enough for…