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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Mark Adams: A survey – He kohinga whakaahu
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Middle of Nowhere: Stories of working on the Manapouri Hydro Project
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Polkinghorne: Inside the Trial of the Century
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Covid Response: A Scientist’s Account of New Zealand’s Pandemic and What Comes Next
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Standing on my Shadow
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Northbound: Four seasons of solitude on Te Araroa
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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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Finest Hotel in Kabul: A People’s History of Afghanistan
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Death of an Ordinary Man
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Hotel Exile: Paris in the Shadow of War
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Genius of Trees: How trees mastered the elements and shaped the world
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To Be Young, Gifted and Black
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Nation of Strangers: Rebuilding Home in the 21st Century
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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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Grand Bikepacking Journeys: Riding Iconic Routes around the World
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All About Love: The Deluxe Collector’s Edition: New Visions
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1984
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Persuasion
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Ron Mueck
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Illustrated World of Tolkien: The Second Age
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Book of Guilt
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Three Days in June
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Northbound: Four seasons of solitude on Te Araroa
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Children of Radium: A Buried Inheritance
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Hollows Boys: A story of three brothers and the Fiordland deer recovery era
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Shattered Lands: Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia
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Book Review: The Thornbacks
This novel glides on Wilson’s playful prose, perfectly chosen details, and quirky characters. I thoroughly enjoyed the ride.