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The most authoritative, comprehensive and sought-after guide to New Zealand wines.

I have learned a new trick. I can go invisible. I know this, because I walked into a clothing store at lunchtime the other day and despite the fact that I was the only person in there, none of the retail assistants could see me.

Hours of fun for the kids - and the adults! The Looky Book is a puzzle book mostly for young children with 11 different puzzles all with colourful New Zealand landscapes, birds and animals.

Kay Scarpetta as you have never seen her before - a must-read for any fan of this series, or an ideal starting point for new readers.

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.