Book Review: Cast Away
This is a mewling and meandering story of self-actualisation from the perspective of someone desperate to avoid reckoning with themself.
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Groundwork: The Art and Writing of Emily Cumming Harris
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Everything But the Medicine: A doctor’s tale
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Books of Mana: 180 Maori-Authored Books of Significance
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Whenua
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Hardship and Hope: Stories of Resistance in the Fight Against Poverty in Aotearoa
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Different Kind of Power: A memoir
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Polar War: Submarines, Spies and the Struggle for Power in a Melting Arctic
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Chokepoints: How Economic Warfare is Changing the World
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Going On and On: Why Our Longevity Threatens the Future
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Let it be Tough: Train your mind to perform under pressure
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Land Rover Named Lucy
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To the Edge of the World
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Genius of Trees: How trees mastered the elements and shaped the world
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Finest Hotel in Kabul: A People’s History of Afghanistan
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Nation of Strangers: Rebuilding Home in the 21st Century
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Hotel Exile: Paris in the Shadow of War
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Death of an Ordinary Man
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To Be Young, Gifted and Black
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My Heart is This: Tracey Emin on Painting
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Contrapposto
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Eames Houses: Charles and Ray Eames Residential Architecture
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Stakes
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Polar War: Submarines, Spies and the Struggle for Power in a Melting Arctic
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Green City Wars
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Schott’s Significa: An Unexpectedly Essential Guide to Language
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Genius Myth: The Dangerous Allure of Rebels, Monsters and Rule-Breakers
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Unknown Enemy: The Hidden Nazi Force That Built the Third Reich
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Electric Spark: The Enigma of Muriel Spark
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Mr Ward’s Map: Victorian Wellington street by street
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Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
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