Books

Joe Karam has another book out on the Bain murders. And this time it's about guilt, not innocence, Mark Price reports.

Rupert Murdoch: an Investigation of Political Power by David McKnight, an Australian media academic at the University of New South Wales and former journalist, is a well-researched and chilling survey of the philosophy that has fostered dangerous media abuse of responsibilities.

The Fear Index is a well-known measure of stock market volatility in the United States, measuring as it does the market perception of how stocks will play out in any given circumstances.

Elizabeth George goes to great lengths to make her Inspector Lynley mysteries entertaining.

During the 2007 Rugby World Cup, Gregory O'Brien penned "Sprig":

My only experience of "other than economy class" travel has been finding a pair of pyjamas in an op shop with Singapore Airlines insignia on the pocket, presumably a perk of first or business class.

Tackling the definitive biography on the late Steve Jobs, the co-founder of Apple Inc, was a daunting task given the overwhelming grief that followed his death.

Some of the fun facts recounted in I Want My MTV: The Uncensored Story of the Music Revolution:

For those of us who learned to knit because that was the only way to get a new jersey, the notion of craft knitting was long an alien one. Those who aspired to great things tackled complex Aran designs or Kaffe Fassett's Tumbling Blocks but these were to demonstrate one's skill rather than be produced as artworks.

Hunter-gatherer types will probably need little introduction to Haast helicopter pilot and hunter Dave Saxton, who deserves a few chapters in West Coast bush lore.