 The End of Atlantic City by David Beach $25.00
Victoria University Press
In his second volume of poetry, the 2008 winner of the IIML Prize in Modern Letters presents a book-by- book rendering of The Iliad into sonnets, followed and contrasted by a "Te Aro" sonnet sequence.Buy now
 Doubtless by Sam Hunt $29.99 HB
Craig Potton Publishing
Sam Hunt has spent years touring and reading his work in schools, pubs and other venues and has made the "wandering minstrel" role his own - to the point where it's almost impossible to read his without hearing his voice. This collection includes new work and brings a comprehensive selection of older pieces back into print.Buy now
 Martin Bosley Cooks by Martin Bosley $45.00 Random House
Martin Bosley's Oriental Bay restaurant was the 2007 Cuisine Restaurant of the year, and his Listener food column has reassured readers who worried that the high standard set by Lois Daish would be impossible to live up to. In this chatty collection of recipes, Bosley champions the benefits of seasonal produce and an ethical approach to eating, but first and foremost promotes the importance of simple, punchy flavour.Buy now
|  New Zealand - New Caledonia: Neighbours, Friends, Partners edited by Stephen Levine & Frederick Angleviel $40.00
Victoria University Press
A seminar between Victoria University and the University of New Caledonia led to this collection of essays looking at colonisation, "tyranny of distance" and the various other parallels - cultural, religious, political, economic - that can be drawn between the two South Pacific countries.Buy now  This Horrid Practice: The Myth and Reality of Traditional Maori Cannibalism by Paul Moon $40.00 Penguin NZ
Bound to be contentious, this book explores the taboo subject of cannibalism in pre-European Maori society, examining how and in what circumstances Maori ate other humans and why the practice died out soon after Europeans arrived in New Zealand. Moon discusses the views of explorers and missionaries, considers the role religion had in ending cannibalism, and finally tackles the question of why there is so much silence and denial about this topic in academic circles.Buy now
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 The Behaviour of Moths by Poppy Adams $38.99 Virago
In a run-down stately home, a reclusive lepidopterist awaits her sister's arrival. Ginny replays scenes from her past, remembering her parents' fraught relationship, and the tumultuous events leading to Vivien's sudden departure years ago. But will the weekend together help the sisters to recapture their childhood closeness, or will their conflicting memories prevent them from ever understanding each other?Buy now  Six Suspects by Vikas Swarup $36.99 Doubleday
Vivek Rai - the flashy, corrupt son of a politician -recently acquitted of murder despite the very public nature of his crime, is himself killed at a party where he was celebrating his freedom. A crusading journalist systematically constructs and examines the opportunities and motives of the six suspects under investigation. In the process he exposes the venal, hypocritical nature of contemporary Indian justice as no more fair than the caste and colonial systems which created it.Buy now
 How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone
by Sasa Stanisic $38.99
Weidenfeld & Nicholson
An idiosyncratic history of one extended family and their town's social and physical disintegration as Yugoslavia tears itself apart in the early nineties. Buy now
|  When Will There Be Good News? by Kate Atkinson $36.99 Doubleday
A woman whose family was murdered when she was a child, a resourceful sixteen year old and DCI Louise Monroe are literally set on a collision course when a train derails in Edinburgh. Also in the mix is former PI Jackson Brodie, who featured in Case Histories and One Good Turn. But you needn't have read the other two books to be drawn in by the engaging and authentic characters, sharp humour and suspense of this compelling read.Buy now
 Run by Ann Patchett $27.99 Bloomsbury
Doyle takes his adopted sons to hear Jesse Jackson speak, but they are much more interested in their own worlds. While arguing the relative merits of racial consciousness, Catholicism, and Ichthyology, they witness an accident which will have a profound impact on their lives.Buy now
 Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer $34.99
Little, Brown
The highly anticipated fourth book in the sequence that began with Twilight. What does the future hold for Bella, Edward, Jacob and their somewhat unusual families? An enjoyably melodramatic vampire romance for your inner (or actual) thirteen-year-old.Buy now |
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