| Celebrate at vicbooks! |
 Join us for morning tea on Monday 8th December. There will be delicious baked treats inspired by Ladies a Plate by Alexa Johnston $45.00 Buy now and other cookbooks. Plus if you spend $30 or more on general books*, we will give you a $5 voucher to spend before we close for the year on Tuesday 23rd December. |  Please wear your maddest hat!
Free gift-wrapping.
If your purchase is a gift, we will wrap it for you. This applies all year - not just at Christmas.
(*identified by a yellow price sticker - includes calendars and diaries, but excludes textbooks). |
| New Zealand Books |
 Contemporary New Zealand Cinema: From New Wave to Blockbuster edited by Ian Conrich & Stuart Murray $59.99
I B Tauris A thorough study of New Zealand's vigorous film-making culture, this book includes critical accounts of acclaimed films such as The Piano, Vigil, and Once Were Warriors and analyses of the industrial and commercial environments that made them possible.Buy now 
New Zealand Journey by Georg Popp & Verena Hacker $19.99 pocket HB or $49.99 Large HB Craig Potton Publishing Perfect for corporate gifts or visitors, this book features atypical views of New Zealand's landscapes. PocketBuy now Large Buy now |  Ralph Hotere edited by Stephen Stratford $195.00 HB Ron Sang Publications Photography by Marti Friedlander and essays by Kriselle Baker and Vincent O'Sullivan, combined with the high printing and production standards you'd expect from the publisher of the landmark books on Len Castle and Michael Smither, ensure this sumptuous volume will be the definite work on Hotere and his art. Buy now Flight of the Conchords - The Director's Cut by Jemaine Clements & Bret McKenzie $49.99 set of 4 CDs BBC Includes an extra ninety minutes of material with out-takes from their BBC show and new songs.Buy now |
| Fiction & Gift Ideas |
Virago Classics
30th Anniversary editions
$34.99 HB each Virago   
Virago have released seven modern classics with new introductions and specially designed covers to celebrate thirty years of publishing. These are really beautiful hardbacks. Visit us to see them all. 
   1. Barbara Pym Buy now 2. Angela Carter Buy now 3. Elizabeth Taylor Buy now 4. Muriel Spark Buy now 5. Helene Hanff Buy now 6. E M Delafield Buy now 7. Jacqueline Susann Buy now 
The Tales of Beedle the Bard by J K Rowling $19.99 HB Bloomsbury This is the book which held the clues necessary for Harry, Hermione and Ron to defeat Lord Voldemort, in Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows. Containing five previously unavailable fairytales, it will be a welcome addition to any Harry Potter fan's collection. Buy now Wanting by Richard Flanagan $39.99 HB Knopf Sir John Franklin and Lady Jane adopt an aboriginal girl - who they see as one of the last of a dying race - as a test of Jane's theory that the ability to control wanting is what separates civilization from savagery. Their experiment fails, and when Franklin disappears while seeking the North-West passage years later, Jane enlists the help of Charles Dickens to try to dispel rumours of cannibalism which dog his reputation. But can discipline and will-power truly conquer desire? Buy now |  Uke'n Play Ukelele
by Mike Jackson $29.99 Omnibus Includes a play-along CD to help you tune your ukulele, and to hear what the songs are supposed to sound like. Serenade your buddies with the likes of "You Are My Sunshine", "Achy Breaky Heart" and "Drunken Sailor", all of which would lend a lovely ambience to any holiday celebration. Buy now |
 Sweetsmoke by David Fuller $38.99 Abacus No-one cares about the death of Emoline Justice, a freed black woman murdered during the Civil War. No-one, that is, except Cassius, an enslaved carpenter whose life she once saved, and whom she taught to read. Determined to avenge her, he risks his life and identity to discover the truth.Buy now One Morning Like a Bird by Andrew Miller $38.99 Hodder & Stoughton Subsisting on an allowance from his professor father, poet Yuki Takano's life in 1940s Tokyo is a mixture of writing, contemplation and socialising at Monsieur Feneon's French Club. But the spectre of conscription into the war against China, the curtailment of funds when his father falls from grace and his own infatuation with Feneon's daughter threaten to upset the world he loves. Buy now |
| New Non-Fiction |
 Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell $37.00 Penguin The author of The Tipping Point and Blink explores how high achievers attain the success that they do. He asserts that too much attention tends to be paid to the way these people act, rather than to the forces - family, culture and so on - which formed them. Buy now |  The Numerati by Stephen Baker $37.99 Jonathan Cape As neuroscientists are mapping our brains, mathematicians are mapping our behaviour - how, when and where we shop, communicate, work and play. Baker reveals the implications for the world, ranging from the way products are created and sold, to the kinds of medical advice and political leadership we receive. Buy now |
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