Now back in stock after huge demand snapped up all available copies! 'Book of the year' for numerous critics and literati. How did this book, first published in 1965, escape our notice for so long?
"Stoner is a brilliant, beautiful, inexorably sad, wise, and elegant novel" - Nick Hornby
Copies of the new edition of Williams' 1960 novel Butcher's Crossing will be arriving any day. If you've read Stoner, why not ask us to have a copy put aside for you?
Bechdel (deviser of the very useful Bechdel Test) will be appearing at the New Zealand Festival Writers Week in March.
“As complicated, brainy, inventive and satisfying as the finest prose memoirs" (New York Times).
Are You My Mother? is a multilayered, perceptive graphic memoir of Bechdel's very interesting mother, and follows her remarkable Fun Home (a multilayered, perceptive graphic memoir of her very interesting father).
When Einstein first floated his theory of relativity in 1915, it was received with both enthusiasm and resistence. This book follows the history of this intellectual achievement, and asks if recent discoveries provide it with a fundamental challenge.
If you were gripped by The Particle at the End of the Universe, you will want to have a look at this.
Intriguingly describes the 'personality' as a group of differing personalities working together to give the impression of a (usually) unified self. What happens when this internal household gets out of synch?
We are always excited when another wonderful new book from Gecko Press arrives!
9-year-old Annie sees faces in the hedge one summer. After an earthquake and a terrible wind, what will Annie and her brother do? Who or what is the Tigrish?
Verily funny - Star Wars as if written by Shakespeare! You know it makes sense (sort of).
Watch extracts performed here.
Watch Peter read the first bit in our green-room here.
May the verse be with you!
No.1 New York Times bestseller from the author of The Secret Life of Bees.
This is a powerful novel of friendship and sisterhood pitted against the odds, inspired by real events, set in the American Deep South in the nineteenth century.
A thriller about love, loss and memory.
"It's very hard not to read this book in one sitting. Of course it's faintly preposterous, but it's also lots of fun." - Alison Flood, Guardian
Watch this trailer.
The life of a man trying to write his second novel starts to go very wrong... (this is Royle's seventh novel).
"Absolutely at the forefront of everything I've read in British fiction over the last couple of years." - Jonathan Coe
A poignant imagining of Thomas Hardy's relationship with his final muse.
"A superfine, thistledown novel ... written in a prose of such quality that one does not notice the quality. It is a prose beyond accomplishment." - Ian Sansom, Guardian
Read alongside Max Gate.
Two leading environmental activists give practical and often surprising advice for removing toxic chemicals from our bodies and homes.
A well-iluustrated and fact-filled history of one of the smallest provincial unions, until amalgamation with Nelson in 1969.
A fully illustrated monument.
If you were one of the people who missed out when there was no more stock to be had before Christmas, come and get a copy now. If you were not one of those people, now would still be a good time to come and get a copy. Nigel Slater's books are always a pleasure to read or cook from. This will become your cookbook of first resort.
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