| ONE STOP SHOP for undergraduate textbooks & notes Location: Memorial Theatre Foyer, First Floor, Student Union Building. Disabled access available from the Atrium, otherwise please enter from the hill path between the Student Union Building and the graveyard.
Open: 8th February - 12th March. Hours: Monday - Friday, 8am - 6pm in March.
Busy times are generally 10am to 3pm, queues are shorter outside these times.
The One Stop Shop sells all undergraduate textbooks & notes, stationery and reference & study guides. Kelburn vicbooks sells postgraduate texts and notes, and our usual range of books, services and other products. Pipitea sells textbooks and notes for courses taught at Pipitea, and our usual range of stock.
While the One Stop Shop is open, the Student Notes shop will be open for web-order pick-up only.
We encourage you to order online from our secure website, www.vicbooks.co.nz. You can pay by credit card or direct credit from your bank account. You can choose to have your books delivered to you, or to pick them up from the various campuses: Kelburn (at the Student Notes shop), Pipitea (at vicbooks), Karori (at the Fuji centre) or Te Aro (at the Technical Resources Centre). Direct delivery takes an average of 2-3 working days nationally, we will let you know if it is likely to be longer. If you are picking up your order, we will contact you when your books are ready. |
| New Zealand Fiction  Lola by Elizabeth Smither $28.00 Penguin Books
Lola marries into a family of funeral directors, but when her husband and her friend die and she finds herself attending three funerals in one day, she decides to cram the rest of her life with as mush activity as possible. In short order she goes to live in an art deco hotel, gate-crashes a musical quartet's rehearsal and befriends its members and explores the different kinds of love offered by the men in her life. Buy now
New From VUP: Victims of Lightning by Bill Manhire RRP$30.00 vicbooks price $27.00 Buy now Mirror of Simple Annihilated Souls by Kate Camp RRP$25.00 vicbooks price $23.00 Buy now Hicksville by Dylan Horrocks RRP $38.00 vicbooks price $35.00 Buy now | New Zealand Fiction  Inheritance by Jenny Pattrick $29.99 Black Swan
Family secrets and hidden identities fill this drama set in 1960s Samoa and modern day New Zealand. Buy now
New Zealand Poetry  Where Your Left Hand Rests by Fiona Kidman $36.99 Godwit
Timed to coincide with Kidman's 70th birthday in March, this collection of poetry is a beautiful commemoration. Buy now
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New Fiction  Solar by Ian McEwan $38.99 Jonathan Cape
Nobel-winning physicist Michael coasts along on his fame, ignoring the damage that his multiple infidelities have done to his marriage. When his wife has an affair of her own, he is forced into the realization that he IS still in love with her and that he must clean up both his personal and professional life before it is too late. Buy now
Blackout by Connie Willis $38.99 Allen & Unwin
Four time-travelling students doing "live research" into different aspects of World War II get trapped in the Blitz when their means of transport is destroyed in an air raid. Their field trip has just become much more perilous. Buy now  The Postmistress by Sarah Blake $39.00 Viking
Newly-married Emma listens to the news from across the Atlantic and feels sure her small town will never be affected by the war in England. But the voice of reporter Frankie is just one of many from the outside world. Postmistress Iris knows this well, as she handles the town's correspondence - from love letters to telegrams which signal death. Buy now
 Mr. Rosenblum's List by Natasha Solomons $34.99 Sceptre
Jack Rosenblum has a grand project: to become a Very English Gentleman. He has strict rules about which emporiums to frequent, and has memorised the British monarchy back to 913AD. His behaviour frustrates his wife Sadie, who would rather remember their origins. Despite eight years of trying, they still have not assimilated as much as Jack would like, and he proposes to remedy this with a trip to the countryside. Buy now
 Handle With Care by Jodi Picoult $28.99 Allen & Unwin
A novel about parenting, friendship, medical ethics and disability from the Queen of psychological drama, Jodi Picoult. Buy now
| New Fiction  Trespass by Rose Tremain $38.99 Chatto & Windus
The estate of Mas Lunel in the Cevennes region of France has fallen into disrepair under the guardianship of Aramon Lunel, an alcoholic who is traumatized by violent events in his past. Nearby, his sister Audrun dreams of vengeance for unnamed wrongs done to her. Into this dangerously hermetic world comes a London antique dealer in his sixties who wants to start anew. But as their cultures collide, a tide of resentment rises and threatens to engulf them all in unspeakable violence. Buy now
 Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson $38.99 Allen & Unwin
Major Pettigrew enjoys the life of a retired rural English gentleman, replete with good manners and properly brewed tea. But his son and the village ladies have been cooking up plans for him which do not include his new lady friend, Mrs Ali. The village frowns on the relationship, based on their biased and misguided idea that a local (though he was born in Lahore) should not fraternise with an outsider (despite the fact that she was born in Cambridge). Buy now
 The Surrendered by Chang-rae Lee $38.99 Little, Brown
June and Hector met when she was a child fleeing from the war in Korea and he was an American soldier posted there. They haven't seen each other in years, and in the meantime June has become a successful business woman while Hector has become a drunk. When she discovers she has cancer, she decides she needs his help to search for the one piece of unfinished business in her life: their son. Buy now
 The Man Who Disappeared by Clare Morrall $38.99 Sceptre
When her husband goes missing and she finds out he was involved in criminal activity, Kate is devastated. How could she have misread him so badly? In the aftermath, as some friends abandon her and unlikely people turn out to be allies, she discovers strengths she never knew she had. Buy now
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