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With her 50th birthday looming, Hawke’s Bay specialist GP Keryn Powell decided now was the time to finish her first novel

My interest in great rivers of the globe began when I was invited to be the doctor for an expedition to the Amazon in 2001

In the early 2000s there was no more influential rock band in the world than New York’s The Strokes

It is more than 15 years since Paramore’s debut album All We Know Is Falling was released. And this was already a fork in the road for then 16-year-old Hayley Williams

Over on New Zealand’s East Coast, US-trained GP Scott Schieber is reaching new heights. Literally

Released to near-universal acclaim and substantial chart success around the world, and just as COVID-19 was rearing up to change the world as we knew it, After Hours could be either the soundrack to, or a tonic for, the times

Battling over the Netflix remote in our bubble reflects our different escapism needs

In the south-east of England in the 1970s, GP Jon Scott grew up on a diet of musical theatre

While we might be enjoying a typical Kiwi summer and Australia an unparalleled catastrophe of a season, much of the world remains in wintry doom

Once the preserve of Hollywood A-listers, the wellness retreat is attracting interest from all sorts of worn-out professionals in need of a re-boot