LESSONS ON LIVING: FINDING YOUR WAY THROUGH LIFE’S UPS AND DOWNS, RRP $40.
Kiwi psychologist Nigel Latta recently died after a brave battle with cancer. This new book is described as his simple psychological toolkit for life’s ups and downs. Over 30 years working as a clinical psychologist he assembled a personal toolkit based on three simple principles. They helped him to be more resilient, joyful and attuned to what matters most. The same principles have helped him with some difficult times as well, like his cancer diagnosis, but they also helped him find his way to the woman who became the love of his life.
LAST ONE OUT: NO ONE STAYS FOREVER, RRP $33.
Popular crime fiction author Jane Harper’s new novel centres on the character Ro Crowley and the disappearance of her son Sam. In a dying town, Ro waits for her son on the evening of his 21st birthday. But he never came home. His footprints in the dust of three abandoned houses offer the only clue to his final movements. Five long years later, Ro returns to Carralon Ridge for the annual memorial of Sam’s disappearance. The skeletal community is now an echo of itself, having fractured under the pressure of the coal mine operating on its outskirts. But Ro still wants answers.
