RRP: $44.99 New Zealand’s ‘Gluten-Free Chef’ Jim Boswell shows you how you can bring fun and flavour back into your diet. After discovering years ago that he had an intolerance to gluten, Jim found it much better to avoid it altogether than to put up with the discomfort his body experienced. He also had friends …
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RRP: $65.00 “This is incredible food, cooked ridiculously quickly, and I’ve done all the thinkin for you” – Jamie Oliver Iconic chef Jamie Oliver has one-upped himself from Jamie’s 30 Minute Meals by shaving the prep and cooking time in half for his latest offering. Pushing the concept of fast, everyday food to a new …
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RRP: $37.00 Aged 23, Ruth Saunders leaves her childhood home in Massachusetts and heads to the glitz and glamour of Hollywood with her 70-year-old grandma in tow, hoping to make it as a screenwriter. Six years later, she has hit the jackpot when she gets The Call: the sitcom she wrote, The Next Best Thing, …
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RRP: $35.00 Sophie Gray, aka the Destitute Gourmet, has long been a household name for thousands of ordinary Kiwis who are budget savvy when it comes to food shopping and cooking. With all of her best-selling cookbooks, Gray aims to encourage other home cooks to innovate and improvise; and shop smart. The recipes in this …
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Rating: 3.5 out of 5 American pop rock band Matchbox Twenty has staged a comeback with North, their first album in 10 years. The young 20-somethings we first met back in the 90’s are now grown men with more life experience and along with that comes added maturity to their music. But how does the album …
Rating: 4 out of 5 Running time: 165 mins Director: Christopher Nolan Release date: 19 July 2012 Genre: Romantic comedy Cast: Christian Bale, Tom Hardy, Anne Hathaway, Marion Cottilard, Joseph Gordon-Levitt At the end of the last Dark Knight film, we saw our caped crusader taking the blame for Harvey Dent’s crimes and going into …
We’ve all been glued to our TV sets to watch the Olympics in London since the opening ceremony; but did you know the games today have evolved and are quite different from how they started out? Here are some fast facts about the Olympics. The Ancient Olympics Historical records reckon the games first began in …
Rating: 5 out of 5 British singer Adele Adkins has collected rave reviews and numerous awards – including a whopping six Grammys – for this stunner of an album. This effort is her impressive follow up to 19, both aptly titled to reflect her age at the time of writing the album and both with …
You know you’re starting to hit it big in the music world when they re-release your album as deluxe edition with added bonus tracks
New novels come out every month, but the traditional classics always retain their popularity and remain some of the most loved books of all time. So put down Harry Potter for a while – we’ve made a list of five of the best for you to read! Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen You haven’t read …
Rating: 5 out of 5 Just when you thought Kiwi music couldn’t get any better, a striking 21-year old born in Hamilton breaks out on the international music scene after years of being hidden away in Melbourne spent nurturing and developing her musical talent. The sound: Vows is Kimbra’s debut album and what an incredible …
Rating: 3.5 out of 5 Running time: 96 mins Director: P.J. Hogan Release date: 12 March 2009 Genre: Romantic comedy Cast: Isla Fisher, Hugh Dancy, Krysten Ritter, Joan Cusack, John Goodman Based on Sophia Kinsella’s popular novel of the same name, Confessions of a Shopaholic is one of the most hotly anticipated chick flicks …