


My team and I will be working remotely during this time. Six months of writing and illustrating soon paid off when the book was internationally recognised at the Purple Dragonfly Book Awards, which Children’s book authors find beauty in disaster PHOTO: GEOFF SLOAN Megan Woods MP for Wigram We are renovating! My office will be undertaking renovations starting Monday 19 th July. The mishaps gave Mary-Jane and Bruce Stewart a chance to publish Beautiful – a children’s book about the true meaning of beauty inspired by lessons taught to their grandchildren. By Bea Gooding A BROKEN leg and a job redundancy were exactly what a St Martins couple needed to fulfil a dream they’ve never had time to embark on.Readers respond to plan to lower speed limit Wartime relic close connection to guide anywhere, anytime. IN OUR OWN BACK YARD by Anne Kayes (Bateman)įorty years ago, sport and politics collided as the 1981 Springbok tour divided the nation.THURSDAY, AUGConnecting Your Local Community .nz Your local news. THE OTHER SISTER by Philippa Werry (Pipi Press)Ī heartwarming sequel to The Telegram, covering the grim reality facing nurses working in rehab – think amputee and blind soldiers – and in pandemic recovery, through the eyes of Beaty’s younger sister, Tilly But is their local source friend or foe? The winner of this year’s PM’s award for fiction creates believable, historically accurate characters that speak to today’s teens.

Kiwi signaller Frank, his buddy Wally and Aussie Les set up a cliff top vantage point looking across at Bougainville. Their paths will cross again – but meanwhile, where is all Father’s money really coming from? Secrets, lies and scandal follow Cornish migrants arriving in early Napier, while their Norwegian shipmates travel further south to fell the bush and set up camp. She will find love, but not where she expects it. In the late 19th century, motherless Molly Conway, determined to discover her true calling, trudges through a smoky, still-smouldering Wairarapa in search of French nun Suzanne Aubert’s community up the Whanganui River.
