 Replenishing the Earth by James Belich $65.00 HB
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 recolonisation process lent the emerging empires the strength which led them to dominate the world as the superpowers of their time. Buy now |  New Oxford History of New Zealand edited by Giselle Byrnes $99.95 Oxford University Press
Victoria University academics had significant input into this study. New and previously unpublished research included in this volume builds on and re-interprets previous scholarship in New Zealand history. Instead of the search for national identity often cited as the "story" of New Zealand's history, the contributors propose that this identity is in fact shaped by culture, class, gender and community and that the overall evolution from colony to independent state is of much less importance than these constituent parts. Buy now |
 Helen Clark: A Political Life by Denis Welch $40.00
Penguin Books
Covering forty years of political life, form anti-war protests in 1968 to her recent appointment as head of the UN's Development Programme, this is the first serious biography of Helen Clark. Welch pays particular attention to her years as leader of the Labour party, which she lifted from the post-Rogernomic shambles. Despite being seen by some as too domineering, she was one of the first politicians to successfully grasp the sort of consensus required in an MMP environment, and she held the party and the government together in a way that gained respect from her peers both locally and internationally. Buy now |  The Politics of Possibility: Leadership in Changing Times by Jon Johansson $39.95 Dunmore Press
(picture is of the author, not the book) Johansson discusses leadership in New Zealand with particular regard to the dynamics of the 2008 general election. Taking into account the contrasting politics and personalities of John Key, Helen Clark and others before them, he analyses the outcome of the election and prospects for the present and future given the challenges within the areas of race relations, economic policy and the environment. He also provides a framework for understanding the issues involved in the coming 2011 MMP referendum and discusses the idea of republicanism in New Zealand. Buy now |
 Living as a moon by Owen Marshall $34.95 Vintage
In one of these twenty-five stories, a professional Elton John impersonator describes his job as a giving up of identity, "like the moon having no fire of its own and [being] just a pale reflection of the sun when it's not there". This collection hinges on people exploring how their identities are enhanced, endangered or otherwise affected by the people around them. Due in September. Buy now | Two new collections, have just been published by Victoria University Press: Just This by Brian Turner
RRP $25.00 vicbooks price $23.00 VUP Buy now The Lustre Jug by Bernadette Hall
RRP $25.00 vicbooks price $23.00 VUP Buy nowCongratulations to the Montana Medal winners: Non-Fiction: Rita Angus: An Artist's Life by Jill Trevelyan $69.99 HB Te Papa Press Fiction: Novel About My Wife by Emily Perkins $27.99 Bloomsbury Also, come in to either store, or visit http://www.booksellers.co.nz/ to view all the category winners of the Montana Awards. |
A Pale View of Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro Buy now Cover Her Face by P D James Buy now Lord of the Flies by William Golding Buy now Such A Long Journey by Rohinton Mistry Buy now | The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath Buy now The Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi Buy now The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster Buy now The White Castle by Orhan Pamuk Buy now |
 Twilight Series: Special Editions
by Stephenie Meyer Atom
Unless you've been living under a rock, you've probably heard of the phenomenal success of this supernatural romance series. The publishers are now releasing a limited print run of the four books, with blood-red-edged pages, due in mid-August.
Twilight$22.99 Buy now New Moon $27.99 Buy now Eclipse $27.99 Buy now Breaking Dawn $27.99 Buy now  Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann $37.99 Bloomsbury
Philippe Petit's famous tightrope walk between the newly built Twin Towers is a symbol of a society on the cusp of acceleration: the potential rewards for audacity are great, but the risk and the consequences of failure are perilous. The lines between desperate struggle and ambitious daring are not clear-cut. This novel offers a macrocosmic and microcosmic view of life in mid 1970s New York, when for the characters in this book everything seems to be just about to take off. Buy now
 Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson $28.99 Quercus
In the sequel to The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, the focus shifts from crusading publisher Mikael Blomkvist to the hacker who came to his aid in that book. Two of Blomkvist's reporters, who were investigating a sex-trafficking operation between Eastern Europe and Sweden, are killed just before their story is published. Lisbeth Solander's fingerprints are found on the murder weapon and Blomkvist is the only one who believes she is innocent. Buy now
|  Prophecy of the Sisters by Michelle Zink $34.99 Atom
Lia and Alice Milthorpe are in the grip of a prophecy which has blighted the lives of twin sisters for generations. Lia begins to suspect that she and her sister are on opposing sides, and that she must obtain the powerful Keys before Alice does, or something terrible will occur. Buy now 
Mudbound by Hillary Jordan $28.99 Windmill
Laura McAllan is a city-bred girl, unprepared for the struggle of raising her children on her husband's farm in the Mississippi Delta. When his brother Jamie comes back from the war to help out, he brings with a new comrade. But despite Ronsel's status as a war-hero, the Southern community sees only a black intruder. As the tragedy unfolds, the point of view changes, revealing the emotions and frustrations of all the characters involved. Buy now  The Death of Bunny Munro by Nick Cave $37.00
Text Publishing
Bunny Munro has known he's damned for a long time, but until now, he's been able to use sex and drug binges to push that knowledge to the back of his mind. A moment of crazed inspiration sees him take off on a road trip with his ten-year-old son. Bunny's disapproving wife seems to watch him from the grave as things quickly spiral way out of control. As you'd expect from the man behind The Bad Seeds, this is a dark novel of life on society's fringes; of sin, redemption and chaos.Buy now
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