MEDIA RELEASE A COMPELLING MEMOIR OF ADOPTION, LOSS AND DISCOVERY “At Bethany maternity home, they take the babies right away. Before the single mothers lay eyes on them. Before they understand how love is made flesh. Before they can mount a defence. Or scream down the ward. Although I’m told …
MEDIA RELEASE Will to Win New Zealand netball greats on team culture and leadership LANA MCCARTHY WITH ANDY MARTIN AND GEOFF WATSON The Silver Ferns have often had a bad rap in the court of media opinion, with significant losses to the Australians and surprise defeats at international tournaments over …
UNDER THE COVERS Secrets of a Magazine Editor JENNY LYNCH ‘This memoir is no nostalgic, dewy-eyed trip down memory lane. How could it be? We were hardly angels. There was booze. Some people had permanent hangovers. There were blow-ups. A colleague hurled a typewriter out of a window.’ – Jenny …
MEDIA RELEASE PUPPY ZEN Eight Weeks to Train Your Pup and Create a Lifelong Bond MARK VETTE Published by Penguin Random House, 05 November 2019, RRP: $45.00 Animal psychologist and zoologist Mark Vette came to fame with global television show ‘Purina Pound Pups to Dog Stars.’ He also taught dogs …
MEDIA RELEASE ‘Overgrown cottage industry’ celebrates 50 years and share their recipe for success BARKER’S OF GERALDINE: 50 YEARS PRESERVED BY MICHAEL BARKER Mary Egan Publishing, 01 November 2019, hardback, RRP: $60.00 ‘Michael is truly passionate about working with customers to develop new products and bring innovations to market; he …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
‘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 …