 Blood Clot by Tusiata Avia $25.00
Avia, a renowned performance poet, treads into deeper territory in an allegorical retelling of her life-story - in which the Samoan goddess of war is re-imagined as a half-caste Christchurch girl. *Now due February 2009 Buy now |  Beauty of the Badlands by Cliff Fell $25.00 The Badlands here are the treacherous clay slopes and farms of Fell's home in the Moutere hills, but also encompass the idea of the great American road-trip and its similarities to the poetic tradition of a visit to the underworld.Buy now |
 Forbidden Cities by Paula Morris $28.00 Penguin
Short stories encompassing urban tales of transgression, escape and desire, inspired by some of the many places - from Auckland to New Orleans - in which Morris has lived.Buy now  Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones $28.00 Penguin
This multi-award-winning story of loyalty, sacrifice and different kinds of knowledge is now available in paperback.View details |  The Ten Pm Question by Kate De Goldi $29.99 Longacre Twelve-year-old Frankie is a bundle of nervous anxiety. The only person who takes his "ten pm questions" seriously is his Ma. But she can't provide him with all the answers, especially when it comes to his worries about her.Buy now  Second Violins: New Stories Inspired by Katherine Mansfield edited by Marco Sonzogni $34.95 Vintage
At her death, Mansfield had collected fifteen unfinished stories she intended to publish as the collection The Dove's Nest. Now a range of New Zealand writers have elaborated upon the first paragraphs of these stories - not to create "Mansfield" stories, but to see where her words might take them. The original unfinished works are also included in this intriguing volume.Buy now |
 Long Live the Modern: New Zealand's New Architecture by Julia Gatley $65.00 HB AUP
Wellington's Athfield House, Freyburg Pool, Overseas Passenger Terminal and Beehive and 176 other iconic buildings and sites from around the country are represented in historic and contemporary photographs and floor plans in this important new look at modernism. Academics, heritage consultants, art historians and architects supply the context and history of New Zealand's "New" architecture.Buy now  Coming of Age: Thirty Years of NZ Film by Duncan Petrie & Duncan Stuart $44.99 Random House
This book is a celebratory history of the last thirty years of film-making in New Zealand - a time in which the local industry has leapt ahead, overcoming cultural cringe and achieving both local kudos and international recognition.Buy now |  New Zealand Portraits by Richard Wolfe $80.00 HB Penguin
A chronological history of the painted portrait in New Zealand, which begins with settler and soldier portraits, takes in depictions of Maori by European painters such as Lindauer and Goldie, discusses the work of artists like Angus and McCahon, before looking towards the future of today's noted New Zealand painters.Buy now  In Search of Paradise by Graeme Lay $90.00 HB Godwit
A journey through the lives and works of twenty-three artists and writers who drew inspiration from the South Pacific, including Paul Gauguin, Herman Melville, Robert Louis Stevenson and Joseph Banks.Buy now  Say it With Toast by Steve Ngapo $19.99 Hodder
His friends said it couldn't be done, so Steve Ngapo set out to prove them wrong. The result is this thirty-two recipe book, for which you only need four ingredients: Eggs, Bread, Noodles and Cheese. A boon for the lazy or cash-strapped cook.Buy now |
 Tender Morsels by Margo Lanagan $37.99 Allen & Unwin Liga, victimised by her father and local youths, is saved by natural magic and transported to her own personal heaven. But back in the "real" world, when a hedge-witch attempts to replicate the spell for a debt-ridden friend, she ends up sending him to Liga's world by mistake. He acquires the power to shift between the worlds, but the loosening of the borders comes with dangerous consequences for the inhabitants of both worlds.Buy now  Wasted Vigil by Nadeem Aslam $37.99 Faber & Faber
Beneath the Tora Bora mountains, the old perfume factory where English widower Marcus Caldwell lives becomes a central focus in the lives of those who pass through. Afghan, American and Soviet cultural narratives intertwine in this novel of love amidst conflict.Buy now  Fire Gospel by Michel Faber $27.00 Text/Canongate
A Canadian linguist sent to Iraq to recover artifacts which may have survived the war discovers an unrecorded cache of papyrus scrolls inside a bas-relief. Ignoring protocol, he smuggles them out of the country. When he translates them from Aramaic, he realises he has found a shocking eyewitness account of the crucifixion - a Fifth gospel which will ignite both his career and the passions of believers worldwide.Buy now  Lion Among Men by Gregory Maguire $34.99 HarperCollins
Brrr, the Cowardly Lion, seeks out the dying Oracle Yackle. He wants to find out about Elphaba Thropp - otherwise known as the Wicked Witch of the West - who once defended him when he was a cub, but Yackle has her own questions. As war-fever grips Oz, and the Emerald City armies approach, Brrr tells his life story...Buy now Skivertex Brontes
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte $24.99
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte $24.99
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte $24.99
A delightful gift idea, these classics are reproduced with the full text, introduction and biographical notes, in an embossed, Moleskine-like jacket with a black elastic place-marker. Six titles by Jane Austen are also available. |  Seamstress by Frances de Pontes Peebles $37.99 Bloomsbury
Two sisters learn their skill at dressmaking together -how to cut, conceal and mend. But while ambitious, beautiful Emilia yearns to escape their small Brazilian town, her crippled sister Luzia has no such romantic hopes. When Luzia is abducted by a band of rebels, their lives diverge even more. In the harsh outlands, Luzia finds her strength - while Emilia fails to find the happiness she'd hoped to find in the arms of a doctor's son.Buy now Tethered by Amy McKinnon $38.99 Orion Clara Marsh became an undertaker because it suited her solitary nature. But when she becomes drawn into caring for a neglected girl who may be connected to a murder victim she prepared for burial years earlier, she finds herself being once again bound to the human world and its dangers.Buy now Most Wanted Man by John Le Carré $38.99 Hodder A young Russian claiming to be a devout Muslim is caught trying to sneak into Hamburg with a large amount of cash. Annabel, the idealistic German lawyer who wants to save him from deportation, soon finds herself risking both her life and her reputation.Buy now  Firmin by Sam Savage $32.99 HB Orion
As the runt of his litter, Firmin the rat finds his only food source is the neglected books of the cluttered shop where he lives. But this diet gives him the ability to read, and he acquires a quite un-rat-like temperament. Soon he realizes that the demise of his home is near, as "urban regeneration" looms.Buy now  Outcast by Sadie Jones $26.99 Vintage
When a nineteen-year-old returns to his home after years in jail, he refuses to play by the hypocritical rules of the small South England town, and his grief and rage threaten to destroy their polite façade.Buy now Moleskine Notebooks
We have various sizes and formats available, and Moleskine Diaries for 2009 are expected soon. Prices vary on these items - please check in store. If we don't have the exact one you require, we can order these in for you at no extra cost. A wide range of other diaries and calendars are also available. |
 Musicophilia: Tales of Music And the Brain
by Oliver Sacks $27.99 Picador
Neurologist Oliver Sacks articulates the various facets of music - sound and silence, movement and visualization. Through stories of people affected by illness or unusual abilities, he illuminates music's power to heal, and the extraordinary meaning music and its expression has in our lives.Buy now  Turning Back the Clock by Umberto Eco $32.99 Vintage
Is history repeating itself? Eco argues that the current clashes between Christianity and Islam; the resurgence of anti-Darwinism; the growing towards the demonisation of Asian nations and the predominance of right-wing governments would suggest this is the case. He warns that we need to recover a sense of forward progress - or at least stop looking to the past for answers.Buy now |  Embroideries by Marjane Satrapi $29.99
Jonathan Cape Drawn in the same spare style as the author's Persepolis books, here Satrapi and her female relatives, friends and neighbours chat candidly over cups of tea about love, sex and the vagaries of Iranian men. You'll learn how to escape from an unwanted marriage to the man your family have chosen for you - and if that doesn't work, how to fake your virginity, or manage affairs to your advantage. A witty and valuable insight into a culture which values men over women, and in which women's worth is measured according to her sexual status.Buy now  Fictionary by Candy Daily $27.99 HB Virgin
If you're stuck in the apathy hour (when happy hour goes bad - as it frequently can), or have eaten some crapas (poorly executed examples of the Spanish food fad) then perhaps you need this collection of words which don't - yet - exist, but really should.Buy now |
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