Louise Callan

The Society of the Sacred Heart in North America

Christine Fernyhough

A new life running a high country sheep station in New Zealand. Christine Fernyhough is well known as a leading Auckland philanthropist, having set up Books in Homes and then the Gifted Kids Programme for high achieving children in low decile schools. In 2003 she was a recent widow when she spied an advertisement for the sale of the legendary Castle Hill Station, near Porters Heights in the Canterbury alps. A woman of energy and enterprise, she bought it and so began a new life learning to run a high country farm at some of the highest elevations in the South Island. This joyful book tells of the trials, tribulations and triumphs of high country life. Christine has thrown herself into station life with gusto, learning to ride so she can join musters in the back country, feeding out to her stock during the disastrous snowstorm of 2006, training a sheep dog, buying stock at the sales and getting on famously with the colourful local characters who are her neighbours, diversifying the station - and proving that she is not a city slicker on a dalliance. Warm and humorous, this inspirational book tells the story of a woman bold enough to do what many urbanites dream of: embark on an entirely new life and throw herself into a considerable challenge. Beautifully illustrated, The Road to Castle Hill is also a celebration of New Zealand's high-country way of life.

A High Country Love Story

The Road to Castle Hill

The Road To Castle Hill

Roger Douglas

"In this book Roger Douglas recounts events which led him from the political wilderness in which he found himself in 1980 to his position today as Minister of Finance in New Zealand's fourth Labour Government. Along the way he provides a vivid, sometimes startling, behind-the-scenes picture of government in action. With humour and simplicity he describes the events of the last seven years, from his relegation for outspokenness to the back benches of the Labour opposition, through the crisis of the four days following the snap election, the drama of the "Opening of the Books", the Economic Summit Conference and devaluation, to the controversy surrounding "Think Big" projects, the floating of the New Zealand dollar, and corporatisation. He writes about the people he works with inside and outside parliament -- the Labour cabinet and caucus, the bureaucrats, union and business leaders, the press and his constituents -- and looks at the roles and contributions of various sections of New Zealand society in a decade of major economic change. But most importantly, he describes the trials and tribulations of applying his economic policies, and reveals his personal vision of where he believes New Zealand could, and should, be aiming as we approach the year 2000"--Inside front cover.

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