June Book Competition 2015

Digby Law’s Soup Cookbook

Now back in print by popular demand, this bestselling cookbook deserves a place in every New Zealand kitchen.

Digby Law’s recipes are loved and used in kitchens everywhere. This collection of over 300 soups, stocks, garnishes and accompaniments has all your favourites and more. From a classic borscht or bouillabaisse to the more exotic Turkish wedding soup, this is your one-stop reference for delicious and wholesome meals.

Digby Law was a chef, food writer and broadcaster whose cookery books helped change the way New Zealanders approached food and eating. With a passion for fresh ingredients and simple recipes his cookbooks deserve a place in every kitchen.

When Digby Law died in 1987 at the age of 51 he had written a series of five books. Digby didn’t train to be a cook; he was self-taught and learnt by experience. His simple explanations of ingredients and methods enabled both new and experienced cooks to make his recipes with great success.

He was a food columnist for the Auckland Metro magazine, had a radio cooking programme and worked as a consultant for television and magazine commercials.

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Ghost Flight – Bear Grylls

Author of Mud, Sweat and Tears and star of Man vs. Wild and The Island, Bear Grylls delivers his action-packed debut novel – the start of a major new adventure series.

Jaeger agrees to lead an expedition into the Mountains of the Gods in the remote Amazon jungle. At the dark heart of this real life Lost World lies a mystery WWII warplane, one that harbours a secret so explosive its very discovery may tear the world asunder. 

Terrifying forces are hell-bent on keeping the warplane forever hidden. Unwittingly, Will Jaeger is going up against them.

But as Jaeger joins a team of former elite warriors

– including ice-cool Russian operator Irina Narov

– he senses that the air wreck also harbours the answer he so longs to uncover: the identity of his wife and son’s murderers.

Grylls’ background of survival and military training underpins the plot in this first book in the Dan Ranger series, as does his family link, through his late grandfather, Brigadier Ted Grylls, to the book’s post-Nazi subject matter.

Bear Grylls has become known around the world as one of the most recognised faces of survival and outdoor adventure. His TV show, Man Vs Wild/ Born Survivor, became one of the most watched programmes on the planet with an estimated audience of 1.2 billion.

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The Versions of Us

Laura Barnett

Some moments can change your life for ever.

Have you ever wondered, what if…?

A man is walking down a country lane. A woman, cycling towards him, swerves to avoid a dog. On that moment, their future hinges. There are three possible outcomes, three small decisions that could determine the rest of their life.

Eva and Jim are nineteen and students at Cambridge when their paths first cross in 1958. And then there is David, Eva’s then-lover, an ambitious actor who loves Eva deeply.The Versions of Us follows the three different courses their lives could take following this first meeting. Lives filled with love, betrayal, ambition but through it all is a deep

connection that endures whatever fate might throw at them.

The Versions of Us explores the idea that there are moments when our lives might have turned out differently, the tiny factors or decisions that could determine our fate, and the precarious nature of the foundations upon which we build our lives.

Laura Barnett is a writer, journalist and theatre critic.

She has been on staff at the Guardian and the Daily Telegraph, and is now a freelance arts journalist and features writer, working several national newspapers and magazines. The Versions of Us is her first novel.

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Wicked Charms

Janet Evanovich & Phoef Sutton

A brand new Lizzy and Diesel mystery in the Wicked series from bestselling author Janet Evanovich.

A much-anticipated return to the series featuring dazzling Salem, MA, baker Elizabeth Tucker (her cupcakes drive men mad) and the seductive Diesel, first seen in Evanovich’s Stephanie Plum books. Wicked Business, the previous novel in the series, reached No. 1 on the New York Times bestseller list in 2012.

‘Among the great joys of contemporary crime fiction.’ – GQ Magazine.

Janet Evanovich is the New York Times bestselling author of the Stephanie Plum series, the Fox & O’Hare series and the Lizzy and Diesel series. Phoef Sutton is a TV producer, screenwriter and author.

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