Bay Harbour: June 28, 2023

6 Bay Harbour News Wednesday June 28 2023
Great
Winter Reads
INSTORE
NEW RELEASES
Head On - An All Black’s memoir of rugby, dementia, and the
hidden cost of success by Carl Hayman, With Dylan Cleaver
Carl Hayman, All Black #1000, once the most highly prized player in world rugby
and a giant of the game in every sense - someone who was always respected,
even feared. But at the end of seventeen years as a professional rugby player,
the last eight played with the sole aim of setting up his family’s future, Hayman’s
life began to unravel in nightmarish fashion. Head On is about the pressures on
the modern athlete, where physical performance and commerce collide, and
players become victims of their own success. Exploited then left out in the cold,
Hayman is now left counting the hidden cost of the achievements that would
have exceeded any young rugby player’s wildest dreams. As a relatively young
man, still in his early 40s, Hayman contends with brain degeneration he should
only be seeing at the end of his life, not in his prime. This book is also about how
all of us can better understand how the decisions we make can have unintended
consequences, and how we can better serve our young sporting talent.
Ferrymead
Wavewalker: Breaking Free
by Suzanne Heywood
‘A jaw-dropping and thrilling real-life adventure on the high seas for a girl who
just craved normality and finally found her way back to it’ SARAH BROWN
Aged just seven, Suzanne Heywood set sail with her parents and brother on
a three-year voyage around the world. What followed turned instead into a
decade-long way of life, through storms, shipwrecks, reefs and isolation, with
little formal schooling. No one else knew where they were most of the time and
no state showed any interest in what was happening to the children.
Suzanne fought her parents, longing to return to England and to education
and stability. This memoir covers her astonishing upbringing, a survival story
of a child deprived of safety, friendships, schooling and occasionally drinking
water… At seventeen Suzanne earned an interview at Oxford University and
returned to the UK.
Under The Weather - A Future Forecast for New Zealand
by James Renwick
The must-read book on what New Zealand’s changing climate means for our
everyday lives.
A warmer world will change more than just our weather patterns. It will change
the look of the land around us, what grows and lives on it - including us.
In this must-read book, Professor James Renwick untangles how we know
what the future holds and why it matters to our everyday lives. He looks at New
Zealand’s increasingly frequent natural disasters, warming and acidifying waters,
the creep of rising sea levels, and the ways that the changing weather will affect
our agriculture, lifestyle, food security and economy.
Under the Weather is a picture of a planet in danger, a reality-check on what that
means for this country, and a reminder that the shape of our future is up to us.
Tangi
by Witi Ihimaera
The 50th anniversary edition of this award-winning debut novel. First released
50 years ago, Tangi was Witi Ihimaera’s debut novel and the first to be published
by a Maori.
A landmark literary event, it went on to win the James Wattie Book of the Year
Award. He was just 29 years old at the time. At the centre of the novel is the
story of a father and son set within a three-day tangihanga.
Those who love Pounamu, Pounamu will immediately recognise that already
present are the hallmarks of classic Ihimaera storytelling. Revisiting the text for
this special anniversary edition, Witi has added richer details and developed the
nascent themes that have continued to preoccupy him over a lifetime of writing.
Return with him to where it all began.
The Last Lifeboat
by Hazel Gaynor
Liverpool 1940. Alice King stands on the deck of SS Carlisle, waiting to escort a
group of children to Canada as overseas evacuees. She is finally doing her bit
for the war.
In London, as the Blitz bombs rain down and the threat of German invasion
looms, Lily Nicholls anxiously counts the days for news of her son and
daughter’s safe arrival. But when disaster strikes in the Atlantic, Alice and Lily
– one at sea, the other on land – will quickly become one another’s very best
hope. The events of one night, and the eight unimaginable days that follow, will
bind the two women together in unforgettable ways.
Inspired by a remarkable true story, The Last Lifeboat is a gripping and
triumphant tale of love, courage and hope against the odds.
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