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 Everything We Hoped For by Pip Adam rrp $30.00 vicbooks price $27.00 Victoria University Press
VUW Creative Writing graduate Pip Adam's debut is a collection of short stories mostly but not solely focused on young women confronted with a profound change in circumstances. Her handling of the stories is such that even when there is no obvious narrative or thematic link, an emotional current connects them. Buy now
 The Moonmen by Anna Livesey rrp $25.00 vicbooks price $23.00 Victoria University Press
Eerie, witty and erudite, Livesey's second collection of poetry reflects the time she spent in Iowa as a result of her 2003 Schaeffer Fellowship, as well as more personal responses to her mother's illness. Buy now
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|  What's Maori About Maori Education by Wally Penetito rrp $50.00 vicbooks price $45.00 Victoria University Press
For over a century, equity in education has been promised and enshrined in legislation and official policy, but ideology, political will and reality have rarely aligned. In the late 1970s an alternative system created by a few Maori communities attempted to provide their own answer. But has the mainstream learned anything from this context-based process? In a world where most of life is not segregated, is there a way to manage a transition or integration process which still respects each learner's background and values? Buy now
 Mapping the Distance by Ingrid Horrocks rrp $25.00 vicbooks price $23.00 Victoria University Press
Ten years in the making, this collection of poems draws on Horrock's experiences of living, studying and working overseas and starting a family back in New Zealand. Buy now
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 North Pole South Pole by Gillian Turner $40.00 Awa Press
Gillian Turner traces the discoveries of the many scientists of the past millennium who have added to our understanding of Earth's magnetic field and explains the physical and other consequences of geomagnetism. Buy now
 Hello Dubai by Joe Bennett $40.00 Simon & Schuster
Over the past thirty years, Dubai has experienced a massive commercial boost from an influx of extremely wealthy tourists and business people. But can a boom town in the desert - heavily reliant on a poorly paid and largely imported construction and hospitality workforce - possibly last? Columnist and travel writer Bennett explores whether this shiny playground is anything more than a mirage which will founder as the conditions which supported its growth disappear. Buy now
|  The Awa Book of New Zealand Sports Writing edited by Harry Ricketts $40.00 Awa Press
Sports journalism, fiction writing about sports and sportspeople, and theories and histories of sport rub shoulders in this anthology. Put together by Victoria University's Harry Ricketts, author of How to Catch a Cricket Match, the collection gives space to team and individual endeavours, and to emerging and little-known sports as well as the obvious. Buy now
 The Crime of Huey Dunstan by James McNeish $36.99 Random House
Provocation and buried memory are implicated in a taxi-driver's violent death. Blind psychologist Professor Chesney, a trauma specialist called as an expert witness in the case, is initially baffled by the accused - the polite, willfully self-incriminating Huey Dunstan. Buy now
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| New Fiction |
 The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell $38.99 Sceptre
On the artificial walled island of Dejima in the port of Nagasaki, Dutch clerk Jacob de Zoet has a privileged view into the mysterious closed empire of Japan. An abiding mistrust of the ideas, customs and religions of foreigners marks every transaction he witnesses between European traders and their Japanese counterparts. But walls and cultural barriers cannot fully prevent the exchange of ideas, or stop events in the outside world from having an impact on the trading post and the nations represented there. A new book by Mitchell is always a delight, and this one looks like a grand historical epic. Buy now |  The Life and Opinions of Maf the Dog, and of His Friend Marilyn Monroe by Andrew O'Hagan $38.99 Faber & Faber
In other hands the notion of a biography of Marilyn Monroe narrated by her dog might be a laughable conceit, but the author of Our Fathers and Personality transcends any gimmickry. Maf was a real dog, given to Monroe by Frank Sinatra, and his "personal effects" were auctioned along with hers. Not only a witness to celebrity culture, this Maf is also a connoisseur of art and literature, a scholar of politics and psychoanalysis and a chronicler of the rise of American liberalism. Buy now |
 The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner: An Eclipse Novella by Stephenie Meyer rrp $26.99 vicbooks price $22.00 Atom
This companion book to Eclipse tells the story of Bree Tanner, and her experiences as she and the rest of the newborn vampire army stalk Bella and the Cullens. This book will be released on June 5th - reserve your copy now. Buy now |
| New Non-Fiction |
 At Home: A Short History of Private Life by Bill Bryson $65.00 HB Doubleday
Bill Bryson was struck by how much history writing is concerned with things which make up so little of actual historical time: battles, kings, dates and mass movements do of course affect us, but most people's lives are more wrapped up in the everyday objects which surround us. Bryson takes us on a guided tour of the history of items from his house, and the histories surrounding their invention and the forms they came to take. His investigations came to encompass the development and refinement of architecture, the spice trade, medicine, electricity, fashion, plumbing and a myriad other fields of human ingenuity. Social history at its most engaging. Buy now |
 Hitch-22: A Memoir by Christopher Hitchens $38.99 Allen & Unwin
A prominent social commentator, Hitchens has never been afraid to say what he thinks about political issues and events. But how did a socialist opponent of the Vietnam War morph into a vocal proponent of the US invasion of Iraq? In this memoir, he recalls this and other controversies and feuds he has embroiled himself in over the years, but also tells the stories of his parents and his childhood. Buy now |  Medium Raw by Anthony Bourdain $39.99 Bloomsbury
Bourdain has ironically established a role for himself as the pet rebel of armchair chefs - a status he claims not to have expected or aspired to. But he is still obsessed by the question which first propelled him into writing about food, "Why cook?", and he still has a few rants and confessions on the topic to share. Buy now |
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