There was a stone under my right buttock, but I didn’t want to move.
Matthew Butler cocked his head to one side, considering the big-boned blonde in front of him.
There’s a craving for escape within all New Zealanders. It thrives in that gap between our work lives and where we indulge our passions, relax and play.
On 15 October 1888, Wellington’s Evening Post newspaper published a succinct birth notice: ‘Beauchamp — On 14th October, the wife of Mr Harold Beauchamp, of a daughter.’
Fliss sat next to Minnie and the little one, letting the soft yet clear notes of song fall into her ears.
When I got to the gym for basketball tryouts tonight, I counted twenty-eight kids. That meant twenty kids would make one of the two teams, and everyone else would get cut. So I liked my odds.
Max looked at his watch for the umpteenth time since they’d left home. ‘Do you really think this is a good idea?’...
The Pratt & Whitney radial engines rasped and hunted as they struggled to inhale the high-altitude air.
Thank you so much for picking up this book and peeling back the first page to discover its contents.
Here’s the thing about life-shattering days. They start just like any other.
Max looked at his watch, and a sinking realisation that he was late plunged through him.
A country boy of ten living near Boneville was, recently, walking to his house in the vicinity of a large oak tree, when a violent storm arose.
It is so easy to overestimate the importance of one defining moment and underestimate the value of making small improvements on a daily basis.
I am running through the desert, the red earth firm and unyielding beneath my trainers.
Jake lay on top of his board, feeling the swells move beneath him, like the air moving in and out of his lungs, like the blood surging through the four chambers of his stubbornly beating heart.
Breathing covers a spectrum of needs, and it is important to know the best way to breathe in order to meet our needs at any moment, and how best we can move through sleep, rest, activity, exercise, sport, play, work, stress, ill health and recovery.
They were still 400 yards from the strip of white beach and the crammed jungle behind it when the fighter planes came.
