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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Uncommon Land: From an ancestral past of enclosure towards a regenerative future
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Welcome of Strangers: A History of Southern Maori
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Last Living Cannibal
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Hollows Boys: A story of three brothers and the Fiordland deer recovery era
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This Compulsion In Us
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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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Nation of Strangers: Rebuilding Home in the 21st Century
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Finest Hotel in Kabul: A People’s History of Afghanistan
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To Be Young, Gifted and Black
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Ask Me How It Works: Love in an Open Marriage
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Daughters of the Bamboo Grove: From China to America, a True Story of Abduction, Adoption, and Separated Twins
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Hotel Exile: Paris in the Shadow of War
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Coastal Garden
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BBQ
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Around the Table: Tables and Traditions for Gathering
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Istanbul: Delicious Recipes from the Heart of the City
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High Fibre Heroes
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Seafood Restaurant Cookbook
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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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Air
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Shattered Lands: Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia
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Dark Renaissance: The Dangerous Times and Fatal Genius of Shakespeare’s Greatest Rival, Christopher Marlowe
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Beartooth
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Flashlight
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Northbound: Four seasons of solitude on Te Araroa
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This novel glides on Wilson’s playful prose, perfectly chosen details, and quirky characters. I thoroughly enjoyed the ride.