Paul Little: 7 books

What do … John Anderson, Bruce Ansley, Gray Bartlett, Tim Beaglehole, Peter Bland, Jack Body, Peter Bromhead, Brent Clothier, Andrew Drummond, Paul Dykzeul, Tom Everitt, Ian Ferguson, Rodger Fox, Garth Gilmour, Glyn Harper, David Hartnell, George Henare, Sir Michael Hill, Wally Hirsh, Rod Jackson,...

You know Sam Neill makes wine, but do you know what word he can’t stand when people talk about wine? Sir Ray Avery saves lives in the Third World, but you might be surprised to learn what drives him to distraction at home. You know Kevin Milne fights for a fair go, but you probably don’t know why...

This is the message in a bottle that I would have liked to have received when I was growing up. At least, that is the intention. The younger me might not have seen the point. This is my attempt at empathizing with the kids of today growing up have been born with cleft lip and palate, as I was, into...

A humorous book of news photos showing New Zealand prime minister John Key with satirical speech bubble captions added. Topical satire touching on such subjects as Kim Dotcom and gambling.

It could have been any family of six children – except that five of them were born at once. The Lawson quins were a medical miracle and a national obsession. Their early childhood was idyllic, but when their parents’ marriage broke up, their mother married a man who terrorised them for eight years...

From a lonely boy’s bedroom in Germany to the penthouses of Hong Kong, from Wellington’s Beehive to Washington’s corridors of power, from the sedate suburb of Coatesville to the motor racing tracks of Europe, this is the untold story of the charismatic internet tycoon who has driven governments...

This beautifully written chick lit novel with a thriller twist tells the story of magazine editor Jane Lyndhurst who has it all: a gorgeous, younger celebrity husband, a glamorous, fulfilling career and a beautiful, healthy daughter. But on the overnight train from Paris to Venice her five-year-old daughter...