 The Wellington Book by Jess Lunnon & Sandie McKechnie RRP $39.99 vicbooks price $34.99 Fitzsimons Beckford
A sort of illustrated meta-map (with some words) to the places, ideas, history and soul of the Wellington, capturing captures the ephemeral things about the city which make the locals love it. Send it to your out-of-town friends and make them jealous! You can see more pictures from the inside of the book in the photo album on our facebook page. Buy now
 Nga Moteatea: An Introduction : He Kupu Arataki by Jane McRae & Heni Jacob $34.99 Auckland University Press
This short, accessible introduction to Sir Apirana Ngata's classic four-volume collection of moteatea provides an explanation of the origins and history of the different styles of Maori song and their relevant cultural contexts, along with an exploration of the composition process and the poetry of the songs. With examples and illustrations throughout and all text in English and Maori, this is an ideal primer for anyone interested in learning about nga moteatea. Buy now
 Replenishing the Earth: The Settler Revolution and the Rise of the Angloworld by James Belich $40.99 Oxford University Press
Belich discusses the twin "settler revolutions" of the early nineteenth century, which saw extensive settlement throughout the American West and the British West - comprising Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. The typical boom and bust cycles of new settlements encouraged two-way trade between the cities of the colonies and their "home": the natural resources of the new lands enriched the old, and the old enabled expansion with technology, ideas and military support. This re-colonisation process lent the emerging empires the strength which led them to dominate the world as the superpowers of their time. Due mid-late July. Buy now
 Thicket by Anna Jackson $24.00 Auckland University Press
In her fifth collection of mysterious poems, Jackson pulls the reader through uncanny architectures, forests and mindscapes, drawing her audience ever deeper into the "dark woods" of her imagination. Buy now
|  Small Holes in the Silence: Collected Poems by Hone Tuwhare $44.99 Godwit
Hone Tuwhare is widely regarded as one of New Zealand's greatest poets, and his early collection, "No Ordinary Sun" is still one of the best known books of poetry in this country. This volume collects works from that era right through to works written in his eighties, including some never published before. Buy now
 New Zealand by Design: A History of New Zealand Product Design by Michael Smythe $65.00 Godwit
A history and examination of design in New Zealand. From the first traps and lures adapted by Maori for local conditions and the agricultural and industrial inventions from the pioneer era to the labour-saving devices and appliances of the post-war age, right through to today's internationally recognised innovations such as Formway Furniture and the Yike Bike, it is a fascinating story of the intersection between creativity and practicality. Buy now
 Dark Night: Walking With McCahon by Martin Edmond $37.99 Auckland University Press
On the way to an exhibition opening in 1984, the painter Colin McCahon went into the toilets at the Botanical Gardens, slipped out another entrance and disappeared for twenty-four hours. Found the next day in Centennial Park on the other side of Sydney, he could give no account of who he was or where he had been. His experience had a profound impact, from which he had not recovered at his death three years later. Edmond takes a speculative journey along the path McCahon might have followed, along the wy illuminating his relationship with McCahon the man and the artist. Buy now
 Inside, Outside by Brian Turner RRP $30.00 vicbooks price $27.00 Victoria University Press
A substantial new collection from Central Otago poet Brian Turner, in which he celebrates his home landscape and protests against its possible destruction; and approaches emotion in the spirit of both satire and affection. Buy now
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 State of Wonder by Ann Patchett $36.99 Bloomsbury
Dr Annick Swenson works amidst the jungle of the Brazilian Rio Negro, developing a drug which could change the women's lives. But when she refuses to supply information about her progress and the man sent to investigate is reported dead, her investors become desperate. Spurred by the pleas of his wife, the dead man's colleague, Marina Singh, is persuaded to track down her former teacher. But she is unaware of just how perilous an undertaking her journey is destined to be. Buy now
 There But For The by Ali Smith $32.00 Hamish Hamilton
What are you supposed to do when a friend of a friend brings a total stranger to your house as a dinner guest and he goes upstairs, locks himself in a bedroom and then refuses to come out? For months? This is the dilemma Miles creates for his "hosts" in this new novel from the author of The Accidental. Buy now
|  The Stranger's Child by Alan Hollinghurst $34.99 Picador
Hollinghurst's first novel since 2004's Man Booker Prize-winning The Line of Beauty focuses on the fortunes and connections between two aristocratic families. Beginning in the last summer before the Great War, it meanders its way through almost one hundred years of history. The heart of the book resonates with themes of poetry, Empire, inclusion and exclusion and the transformation of a generation. Buy now
Vintage Science Fiction Classics - 3D Covers $29.99 each. (with 3D-vision glasses bookmark!)     
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