Hiring staff is a chore. It takes time, it costs money and it’s usually hard work. So it’s no wonder New Zealand managers too often hire the wrong people, pushing square pegs into round holes. Author Rob McKay explains how to hire the right person in this excellent handbook for employers.
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Bestselling author Justin Brown sets out to discover whether modern New Zealand is the same place he was promised when growing up in the 1970s — the land of rugby, racing and beer, 80 million sheep and number 8 fencing wire. Brown performs a 20th century reality check on Godzone, seeking to learn whether this is still the best place to bring up kids and what the future might hold for us.
Veteran writer Peter Jessup has been collecting such tales for more than 30 years as a writer and fishing enthusiast whose work has been widely published in New Zealand magazines and newspapers. Fishermen’s Tales is a collection of his favourite stories, from the streams and coastlines of New Zealand to the rivers, lakes and seas around the world.
They say the happiest two days of a boat-owner’s life are the days he (or she) buys a boat – and the day they sell it. In Boaties’ Tales, writer Peter Jessup reminds us why that’s the case with a collection of stories that will amaze and amuse.
Tangled Lines is Anthony Swainson’s collection of whimsical stories, relating his fishing odyssey through the lakes, streams and rivers of New Zealand to the raging seas of the world. This volume is presented in a stylish hardback volume.
