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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Joss: A History
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Everything But the Medicine: A doctor’s tale
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Northbound: Four seasons of solitude on Te Araroa
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How To Paint A Nude
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Collector: Thomas Frederick Cheeseman and the making of a museum
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Covid Response: A Scientist’s Account of New Zealand’s Pandemic and What Comes Next
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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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Nation of Strangers: Rebuilding Home in the 21st Century
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Ask Me How It Works: Love in an Open Marriage
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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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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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Behind the Seams: My Life in Rhinestones
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Hobbit (Illustrated Deluxe Edition)
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Little Life
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Lost Flowers of Alice Hart Special Edition
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Lessons in Chemistry (Deluxe Edition)
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Land of Sweet Forever
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I’ll Be Right Here
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Origins of an Experimental Society: New Zealand, 1769-1860
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Story of a Murder: The Wives, the Mistress and Dr Crippen
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Helm
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Unknown Enemy: The Hidden Nazi Force That Built the Third Reich
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We Do Not Part
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