Fast Talking PI reflects the poet`s focus on issues affecting Pacific communities in New Zeal&, & indigenous peoples around the world including the challenges & triumphs of being afakasi [mixed race]. The book is structured in three sections, Tusitala (personal), Talkback (political & historical) & Fast Talking PIs (dialogue). She writes as a calabash breaker, smashing stereotypes & challenging historic injustices; also exploring the idea of the calabash as the honoured vessel for identity & story. Her aesthetics & indigenous politics meld marvellously together ...

From first sail to cruising a mid-sized sailboat, here is a how-to book tailored to would-be sailors with big dreams & little time Like the ” Fast Track to Cruising” course, this book starts with the basics of sailing & moves the reader quickly through days ailing to cruising. The first half covers all the steps from learning to sail to live-a-board cruising in outline format, offering synopses of key information along that path. Each key point is cross-linked to a fuller exposition in the second half of the book, helping the reader to a fuller understanding of the concepts behind the techniques. ...

For professional cyclists, going faster & winning are, of course, closely related. Yet surprisingly, for many, a desire to go faster is much more important than a desire to win. Someone who wants to go faster will work at the details & take small steps rather than focusing on winning. Winning just happens when you do everything right
- it's the doing everything right that's hard. & that's what fascinates & obsesses Michael Hutchinson. With his usual deadpan delivery & an awareness that it's all mildly preposterous, Hutchinson looks at the things that make you faster
- training, nutrition, the right psychology
- & explains how they work, & how what we know about them changes all the time. He looks at the things that make you slower, & why, & how attempts to avoid them can result in serious athletes gradually painting themselves into the most peculiar life-style corners. Faster is a book about why cyclists do what they do, about what the riders, their coaches & the boffins get up to behind the scenes, & about why the whole idea of going faster is such an appealing, universal instinct for all of us.


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For professional cyclists, going faster & winning are, of course, closely related. Yet surprisingly, for many, a desire to go faster is much more important than a desire to win. Someone who wants to go faster will work at the details & take small steps rather than focusing on winning. Winning just happens when you do everything right
- it`s the doing everything right that`s hard. & that`s what fascinates & obsesses Michael Hutchinson. With his usual deadpan delivery & an awareness that it`s all mildly preposterous, Hutchinson looks at the things that make you faster
- training, nutrition, the right psychology
- & explains how they work, & how what we know about them changes all the time. He looks at the things that make you slower, & why, & how attempts to avoid them can result in serious athletes gradually painting themselves into the most peculiar life-style corners. Faster is a book about why cyclists do what they do, about what the riders, their coaches & the boffins get up to behind the scenes, & about why the whole idea of going faster is such an appealing, universal instinct for all of us.


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For more than 30 years, Patience Gray author of the celebrated cookbook Honey from a Weed lived in a remote area of Puglia in southernmost Italy. She lived without electricity, modern plumbing, or a telephone; grew much of her own food; & gathered & ate wild plants alongside her neighbors in this economically impoverished region. She was fond of saying that she wrote only for herself & her friends, yet her growing reputation brought a steady stream of international visitors to her door. This simple & isolated life she chose for herself may help explain her relative obscurity when compared to the other great food writers of her time: M. F. K. Fisher, Elizabeth David, & Julia Child. So it is not surprising that when Gray died in 2005 the BBC described her as an almost forgotten culinary star. Yet her influence, particularly among chefs & other food writers, has had a lasting & profound effect on the way we view & celebrate good food & regional cuisines. Gray s prescience was unrivaled: She wrote about what today we would call the Mediterranean diet & Slow Food from foraging to eating locally long before they became part of the cultural mainstream. Imagine if Michael Pollan or Barbara Kingsolver had spent several decades living among Italian, Greek, & Catalan peasants, recording their recipes & the significance of food & food gathering to their way of life. In Fasting & Feasting, now available in paperback, biographer Adam Federman tells the remarkable & until now untold life story of Patience Gray: from her privileged & intellectual upbringing in Engl&, to her trials as a single mother during World War II, to her career working as a designer, editor, translator, & author, & describing her travels & culinary adventures in later years. A fascinating & spirited woman, Patience Gray was very much a part of her times but very clearly ahead of them. ...

Guidebook to fastpacking
- multi-day running trips carrying the bare essentials
- in the UK, Europe & beyond.





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Our planet is in the grip of an obesity pandemic. More than a billion people worldwide are overweight & over 600 million are obese. We live in an obesogenic environment in which it is much easier to get fat than to stay fit. How has this come to be? Who is to blame? What can we do? In Fat Planet, Dr David Lewis & Dr Margaret Leitch examine the social & psychological causes of the obesity pandemic in order to answer these questions. They use ground-breaking research to highlight the behaviour of corporations that relentlessly promote foods high in sugar, fat & salt, & show that these `junk` foods have shockingly similar neurological effects to hard drugs. They consider the prevalence of food cues which unconsciously stimulate our desire to consume. & they debunk the myths of fad diets & slimming pills, suggesting practical, easily implemented strategies for sustainable weight loss. The evidence is clear: our problem with obesity must be addressed or we will face catastrophic consequences. It is not too late to change. ...

Approaching forty, Nigel Marsh`s life seems almost perfect: he has moved with his family from the UK to Sydney & runs the Australian office of a leading advertising agency. However, he is also stressed, overweight & struggling to balance a career, a marriage & the demands of four small children. But everything changes when he loses his job. After the initial shock of redundancy, Marsh decides to embrace life outside the office & reconnect with his family. FAT, FORTY & FIRED is the hilarious, insightful & deeply moving account of his `gap year` at home, as he rediscovers fatherhood, loses twenty kilograms, kicks his drinking habit, trains for an ocean swim race & generally gets his house in order. FAT, FORTY & FIRED is a story for anyone who has dreamed about leaving the rat race behind & living a more meaningful life. ...

De Gaulle called it a `fatal avenue`
- that broad sweep of low-lying country stretching north east of Paris. Over the centuries,
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When a picture of two Danish girls who disappeared on a boat bound for England in 1985 emerges many years later in an old suitcase from a British second-hand dealer, the journalist Nora Sand`s professional curiosity is immediately awakened. But before she knows it, she is mixed up in the case of a serial killer who is serving a life sentence in a notorious prison & the quest to discover the truth about the missing girls may be more dangerous that she had ever imagined... ...