THE GROOVE BOOK REPORT

This is the first in our quick reviews - a list of goodies for your beach bag or bach beanbag reader list.  Ditch the streming channels, socials and screens and pick up some of these thrillers for you holiday hooplahs instead.  Night Will Find You - Julia Heaberlin (Penguin) In this new thriller from the author of the bestselling ‘We Are All the Same in the Dark’, a brilliant young astrophysicist with an uncanny gift is asked help out in a search for a girl who’s vanished.   This story focuses on Vivvy Bouchet, who was only ten when she saved a boy's life by making an impossible psychic prediction.  She can’t explain these powers or even admit to them.  doesn't want to explain it.  A wunderkind scientist, Vivvy wants to be left in peace to scan the desert Texas sky with her telescopes.  But when the boy she saved, now a Fort Worth cop, begs for her help on a cold case, she can't turn him down. Heaberlin has written a brilliant and unforgettable he...

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Here's a Christmas stocking filler for the sailor or nautical buff in your life.   Graham (Scarlet Women) is a prolific researcher and writer of of science, technology, and history.  His work takes readers on a nautical voyage across the seas and around the world.   This book takes readers through 50 magic or significant moments in the invention and utilisation of ships and sea vessels.  His text moves from the ancient Egyptian barges of Pharaoh Khufu to the modern MS Allure of the Seas, which was the largest passenger ship ever built (way bigger than the Titanic!).   I loved flipping through the fascinating book of records, facts, figures and historical references.  Only, being from Aotearoa, I wanted to see something about waka and the voyages of Kupe or the migrations from Rarotonga, etc.  It's like the Pacific cannot feature in here.  Only Thor's Kontiki exhibition, long debunked as a failed theory, appears.  And that ...