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 Reading on the Farm by Lydia Wevers rrp $40.00 vicbooks price $35.00
Victoria University Press
The Library at Brancepath Station in the Wairarapa provides a starting point for Wevers' extended investigation of Victorian Fiction and the colonial world, but the book also offers wider insights into the cultures of books and reading and the various readers, clerks and local characters who contributed to the history of Brancepath. Buy now
 Koiwi Koiwi / bone bone by Hinemoana Baker rrp $25.00 vicbooks price $23.00 Victoria University Press
Just launched, this is the second book of poetry from Kapiti Coast-based performance poet and musician and writer Baker, whose matuhi / needle was an instant success on publication in 2004. Buy now
 Report on Experience by John Mulgan rrp $40.00 vicbooks price $36.00
Victoria University Press
Long unavailable, this is the memoir of the Second World War from the author of Man Alone. Edited by Peter Whiteford, it restores the deletions and amendments which were made to the original posthumously published version. Buy now
|  Honouring the Contract by John E Martin
rrp $50.00 vicbooks price $45.00
Victoria University Press
Government policy assumes a social contract between wage earners and the state, but the strength of that link depends on the reigning ideology. Martin provides the historical framework behind the development of New Zealand's welfare state, which began with the promise of a good standard of living extended to British migrants in the 1840s. Buy now
 Lives of the Poets by John Newton
rrp $25.00 vicbooks price $23.00 Victoria University Press
Twenty-five years after John Newton's debut Tales from the Angler's Eldorado was published, he returns to poetry with this collection, which draws inspiration from the "poison" of Romanticism and the excitement of language. Buy now
 The Collector's Dream by Pierre Furlan translated by Jean Anderson rrp $30.00 vicbooks price $27.00
Victoria University Press
Struggling to escape the shadow cast by his famous inventor-father, a young man travels from Invercargill to England, where he becomes a Jungian art therapist. But his past follows him, in the form of his obsession with documents and works of art from South Pacific history. Pierre Furlan is a past Resident of Randell Cottage, and Jean Anderson is a member of staff at Victoria University. Buy now
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| New Non-Fiction |
 Katherine Mansfield: Storyteller by Kathleen Jones $65.00 HB Viking
Jones, a specialist in early women writers, has produced the first new narrative biography of Katherine Mansfield in twenty-five years. A major work of scholarship, it incorporates information gleaned from Mansfield's letters and journals and takes the unusual step of including material about events which took place after her death in 1923. Jones examines John Middleton Murray's subsequent life, and the effect his manipulation of Mansfield's manuscripts and their publication had on her legacy and reputation. Buy now |  The Wolf by Richard Guilliatt & Peter Hohnen $29.99 Heinemann
Based on declassified government files, eyewitness accounts and unpublished correspondence, this account of the clandestine German warship "The Wolf" illuminates a little-known story of the First World War. The ship and her crew were instructed to undermine Allied forces by disrupting their navies and commercial shipping operations, and in order to keep their activities secret they were not able to make port calls or transmit radio. Thus in addition to their direct attacks on Australia and New Zealand in Pacific waters, they came to rely on piracy for food and fuel to keep the crew and up to four hundred captured men, women and children alive. Buy now |
| New Fiction |
 Stories to Get You Through the Night (Various Authors) $37.99 HB Vintage Classics
A collection of stories to read and re-read - to console and excite you and to transport you to other worlds and times, from a variety of classic and contemporary authors including: *Katherine Mansfield *Alice Munro *Anton Chekov *Oscar Wilde * Haruki Murakami *Wilkie Collins *Kate Chopin *Elizabeth Gaskell *John Cheever *Richard Yates *Arthur Conan Doyle *James Lasdun *Somerset Maugham *Martin Amis *Helen Simpson *Angela Carter *Julian Barnes *Rudyard Kipling *Virginia Woolf & *The Brothers Grimm. Buy now
Room by Emma Donoghue $39.99 Picador
As far as five-year-old Jack knows, the Room he and his mother live in is the entire world. Old Nick, who only visits at night when Jack is supposed to be safely asleep in Wardrobe, is the only connection to "outside" and he is the only one who can open Door. His mother's love for Jack is all that keeps her alive, but sustaining the illusion that the life they live is happy and normal is exhausting her and making her go slowly insane - and one day she decides it's time to act. Buy now  Invisible Bridge by Julie Orringer $39.00 Viking
From the author of the story collection How to Breathe Underwater comes a war-time epic with an almost old-fashioned concern for character. Beginning in the 1930s and set mostly in Budapest and Paris, Orringer's book represents the grinding despair of war through the minutae of the lives of three Jewish brothers struggling to stay alive and connected during years of persecution and war, bringing human foibles and desires into a larger narrative.Buy now
|  Anthropology of an American Girl by Hilary Thayer Hamann $38.99 Allen & Unwin
This novel follows the life of Evie, a naïve school-girl in the 1970s who runs away with her much older lover. The relationship founders, but remains the sentinel event in her life. Even when as an adult she is married (rather unhappily) to one of his best friends, she still cannot move on emotionally. Eventually she discovers the problems she thought were caused by social conventions are outdone in malignity by her own internalised expectations. Somewhat in the nature of a Judy Blume book for adults, this is recommended for readers of Curtis Sittenfeld. Buy now
 Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes $38.99 Corvus
Ex-Marine Marlantes took more than thirty years to write this novel about his (fictionalised) experiences during the Vietnam War. The book is currently receiving rave reviews in the US: for its insight into the crushing of individuality seen as a necessary part of army discipline; for its unapologetic portrayal of the embedded racism of the armed forces and for its visceral depiction of the danger and exhilaration of combat. Buy now
 The Complaints by Ian Rankin $27.99 Orion
Malcolm Fox works for the most despised division of the police force - the complaints and conduct department. Apart from the abuse which goes with the terrain when you report on your colleagues, he has no reason to feel bad about his job. But when he is given the task of investigating "dirty" copper Jamie Breck, insight without evidence forms a dangerous combination. Buy now
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