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When the new Stephanie Alexander book came into the office my squeals of delight could be heard around the building.

It's the last day to enter our gardening giveaway - all you have to do is share a photo of your garden to the competition post on Facebook page or email media@eldernet.co.nz and you’re in the draw! Prizes include vouchers courtesy of Palmers, as well as a copy of the Yates Garden Guide. Winner drawn Tuesday 16 November – so get your entries in quick!

Thanks to our friends at Palmers and HarperCollins Publishers New Zealand, we’ve got some gardening goodies to giveaway – including two $50 vouchers (which can be used at Oderings in the South Island) and a copy of the latest Yates Garden Guide. All you have to do to win is …

I have been sleeping on the pillow for the past 3 months and love it. The pillow isn’t the magic fix for my lifetime of bad sleeping but I am sleeping much better as a result of using it. I no longer wake up with a stiff neck or dead arms from sleeping with them under my pillow.

New Zealand’s premiere documentary festival Doc Edge International Documentary Film Festival, kicked off last week and will run until 11 July.

The French Film Festival Aotearoa – which runs between 9 June and 14 July in cinemas around the country – is hoping to do the next best thing: virtually transporting us to Paris and the South of France.

I’m not sure where my fascination for the morose comes from but after reading the blurb for Peter James’ novel Left You Dead, the latest in his long-running series following Detective Superintendent Roy Grace, I instantly thought ‘this sounds like me.’

The Secret Path is definitely a holiday read; it’s light, fluffy and in a time of COVID lockdowns, allows you to escape to the beaches and jungles of Costa Rica.

Although my children are now ‘grown up’ enough to be able to speak for themselves (rather more freely than I would like sometimes!), they’re not too grown up that I can’t clearly recall the ‘baby chat’ or ‘trying toddler’ stage.   This book would have been a real asset to me during those early years. It is filled with …

The Keto Chef’s Kitchen by Nery Whelan  I have every intent on reviewing this cookbook as I usually do – by reading through and choosing a recipe and actually cooking it. But as I read through this book I realised this is not your ‘usual’ cookbook, this is a stunning cookbook made for a very defined …