Common TableA warm, welcoming feast of a book celebrating food and the power of sustaining friendship. two Gisborne friends go their separate ways after high school one to Wellington and a busy city life, the other to a rural existence on a North Canterbury farm. After a school reunion six years ago, they rekindle their friendship through their shared love of gardening, writing to each other with humour, compassion and joy. their first book, COMMON GROUND,

Thomas takes her up on the distraction

wonderfully fresh and rich in its copious illustrative detail

was unveiled

the life-altering importance of bacon

hitting her if she stopped

Go the distance with the Simpson family as they join everybody’s favorite moonraking megalomaniac

and Cornelia Augusta catches them

“Brilliant…

and the tears—and there are tears to be shed along this extraordinary journey—are shed for people in whom everybody will find something of themselves

The writing crackles with humor and warmth

heavily modified version of the great director/actor/teacher's original manuscript

where the detective plays a compact disc of Brahm's First Symphony