Interests

I am sure most of us love and admire beautiful things. Beauty is indeed in the eye of the beholder but sometimes we need to stop, take a deep breath, and look around at all the gorgeous things there in this world for us to enjoy.

Buck Shelford, All Black legend, hopes to live to be a hundred, to be a grandfather and a koro to his mokopuna (grandchildren) and still be fit enough to play hard with them and to tire them out.

War - Passion - Courage. The latest novel from the multi-million selling, chart topping author Kate Mosse is once more set in Carcassonne in the South of France.

In his internationally bestselling and critically acclaimed novel The Passage, Justin Cronin constructed an unforgettable world transformed by a government experiment gone horribly wrong. With The Twelve, the story continues.

Made in NZ is a beautiful coffee table book thatsalutes successful New Zealanders, from the full gamut of New Zealand society

This morning my daughter Chantal reminded me of the funny little quirks my late mother had. I am sure I have plenty of odd traits as well and I can certainly be very 'blonde' at times.

Billy Graham says he would have been born on the wrong side of the tracks in Naenae 'but my mates had already stolen them.' Billy's new book, written with Phil Gifford, will give parents and people organising youth groups, a practical, detailed blueprint

Today I have been reflecting back to the 'golden days' of film. The glitz and glamour films, the big blockbusters - great epic films like 'Gone with the Wind', 'Doctor Zhivago' and such like. Those were the days of real entertainment.

The old model of politics was smashed in the 1980s and a new one took shape in circumstances that are still debated today

Hard to believe that 20 years has passed since Ange Marshall opened her first Briarwood store in Auckland. This much-loved Kiwi brand of stunning leather handbags, boots, shoes and wallets has gone from strength to strength and judging by Ange's enthusias