Villa - From Heritage to Contemporary

Patrick Reynolds; Jeremy Salmond; Jeremy Hansen

Despite the interest in contemporary architecture it's a fact that more people in inner-city suburbs throughout New Zealand end up living in a villa than a house of any other architectural style.  Everyone at some stage finds themselves doing some renovation work, and that has tended in recent years to ...

And the Ass Saw the Angel

Nick Cave

Cave's debut novel takes on the Southern Gothic in this bizarre baroque tale. Born mute to a drunken mother and a demented father, tortured Euchrid Eucrow finds more compassion in the family mule than in his fellow men. But he alone will grasp the cruel fate of Cosey Mo, the beautiful young prostitute i...

Orphan X

Gregg Hurwitz

"Brilliantly conceived and plotted ... Read this book. You'll thank me later." -- David Baldacci Who isOrphan X? The Nowhere Man is a legendary figure spoken about only in whispers. It's said that when he's reached by the truly desperate and deserving, the Nowhere Man can and will do anything to protect...

Swimming: Vintage Minis

Roger Deakin

Is there anything quite so exhilarating as swimming in wild water? This is Roger Deakin's swimming tour of Britain, a frog's-eye view of the country's best bathing holes - the rivers, rock pools, lakes, ponds lochs and sea that define this watery island. Charming, funny, inspiring, an assertion of the n...