World of the Written Word

  Normally, the blurb at the bottom of the front jacket is meaningless.  In this case, it is perfect. The marvellous originality of this boo...

  The most disturbing film I have seen in some time It is the story of a nineteen-year-old with a compelling ambition to become a top jazz d...

  This charmingly chapter-noted memoir   begins  " It was Bob's dream to sail across the ocean."  It was a crazy dream. This w...

  I had fond memories of the 1960 film  - mostly because of the magnificent music. The theme was an earworm, that lived in the brain for day...

  Like In the Wake of Madness , this is set on a whaler, in the Pacific Years ago, when I was researching in the New Zealand Archives in the...

  It's out of print, as coffee table cooking books tend to be But nevertheless, when friend Bernadette loaned me her copy, I devoured it...

Some time ago I reviewed Patricia Wolf's debut novel, Outback , and liked it a lot It introduced DS Walker, an appealing character with ...

    This story is about Lydia Beebe of Nantucket Lydia Abby Beebe was the daughter of Lemuel and Mehitable (Conant) Jones, born October 12, ...

  The best analysis of the War with Iran to date is in Maritime Executive It is written by Brigadier Jonathan Campbell-James, a one-time sen...

  Sixty-five percent of New Zealanders DO NOT WANT data centers This, according to a recent news item in Wellington's Stuff , is out of ...