Bobcat, And other stories by Rebecca Lee     $29.99
"Mesmerisingly strange, full of shivers and frissons. It is Lee's eccentric eloquence that makes Bobcat so potent and powerful." - New York Times
"Nothing short of brilliant. Rebecca Lee writes with the unflinching, cumulatively devastating precision of Chekhov and Munro, peeling back layer after layer of illusion until we're left with the truth of ourselves. This extraordinary story collection is sure to confirm its author as one of the best writers of her generation." - Ben Fountain

Spark by Rachael Craw     $19.99

"Spark will stun you. This is the first in a trilogy and it's good! Evie is grieving for her mother in what seems like an ordinary world when she finds herself suddenly in a world that doesn't make sense to her, a world that is an experiment, a world where she is a 'shield’; a world that places her in danger, a danger that could mean death." - Stella

Powerful new YA fiction from a local author!

Come to the launch in our shop.   Visit the website.

Silence Once Begun by Jesse Ball    $37.00 
"Strange, brief, beguiling. Ball’s talents, both as a storyteller and a writer of prose, tend to burst the borders of his structures. He is often appealingly funny, in an absurdist manner." - James Wood, New Yorker
"Ball’s spare, meditative, Rashomon-like novel, a work of exceptional control and exquisite nuance, consists of contradictory transcripts, poetic letters, a striking fable, and melancholy musings. Enigmatic black-and-white photographs add to the subtly cinematic mode. With echoes of Franz Kafka, Paul Auster, and Kobo Abe, Ball creates an elegantly chilling and provocatively metaphysical tale." - Booklist

Summer With Swimming Pool by Herman Koch     $37.00 

"Herman Koch has a knack for asking the right simple questions that threaten to completely unhinge who we are and what holds us together. As in his previous novel, The Dinner, you'll wonder how far you would go for your children, and again you'll wonder what you might be capable of once the rules have been broken. But Summer House with Swimming Pool is more assured and complete and immersive. Viciously funny, tense, and disturbing, this is one vacation you won't forget." - David Vann
Author interview here.

Your Fathers, Where are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever? by Dave Eggers     $37.00
A deft but pretty well deranged exploration of ethics, told entirely in dialogue between a man and his hostages (including an astronaut). This is possibly something that only Dave Eggers could get away with even trying.
"In this intriguing novel, Eggers shows the tripwire that lies between acknowledging the world is unfair, and finding targets on whom to pin the blame when - perhaps the cruelest truth of all - the finger can rarely be pointed in any meaningful direction." - Herald Scotland

The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton       $35.00
There is nothing hidden that will not be revealed. In 1686 Amsterdam, a new wife is presented with a cabinet-sized replica of her new home. The evolving contents of this miniature mirror their real-life counterparts in unexpected ways...
"A fabulously gripping read that will appeal to fans of Girl With a Pearl Earring and The Goldfinch, but Burton is a genuinely new voice with her visceral take on sex, race and class. Burton writes great complex female characters." - Observer

Lost & Found by Brooke Davis     $35.00
A quirky yet poignant story about accepting life and death, and a road trip, but not as you know it, for a 7-year-old girl abandoned at a department store and the two octogenarians who come to her aid. 
This book created a buzz at the 2014 London Book Fair. 
Watch the trailer. 

 The Thrill of It All by Joseph O'Connor    $35.00
"Occasionally, you read a sentence that you know couldn't be bettered: it definitively captures a moment and a mood, say, or immortalises an opinion you didn't quite know you had. Written in the now well-established subgenre of the faux rock'n'roll memoir, Joseph O'Connor's new novel is jam-packed with such sentences – paragraph after paragraph of brilliance." - Toby Litt, Guardian

 Shh! We Have a Plan by Chris Haughton   $28.00
Four friends (three big, one small) have a plan (shh!) to catch a beautiful bright bird in the forest, but sometimes all does not go according to plan. A lovely book, reminiscent of Tomi Ungerer's The Three Robbers.
"A perfectly executed picture book." - Guardian
Watch the trailer. 

Sensation: The new science of physical intelligence by Thalma Lobel     $45.00
Does our body direct our mind as much as our mind directs our body? 

Here's the author.

The Unwitting by Ellen Feldman     $35.00
At the height of the Cold War, words are weapons and secrecy reigns. These are challenging times to be a writer and a wife, as Nell Benjamin knows only too well.
Has been compared with Ian McEwan's Sweet Tooth and Jennie Rooney's Red Joan. 

ANZAC Girls: The extraordinary story of our World War I nurses by Peter Rees      $37.00

The Fever by Megan Abbott      $35.00 
A mysterious illness takes hold at a high school. As hysteria swells and as more girls succumb, tightly held secrets emerge that threaten to unravel the world Tom has built for his kids, and destroy friendships, families, and the town's fragile idea of security. For fans of Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl. 

 Travelling Sprinkler by Nicholson Baker       $27.00
Paul Chowder is a poet, but he's fallen out of love with writing poems. He hasn't fallen out of love with his ex-girlfriend Roz, though.
"I think the job of the novelist is to write about interesting things, including things that might not seem all that interesting at first glance, and to offer evidence that life is worth living." - Nicholson Baker
"Baker's endearingly comedic, covertly philosophical love story mischievously celebrates song and silence, steadfastness and loving-kindness." - Booklist
"Exquisitely sublime." - The New York Times 
"Goofy and elegaic, intricately patterned and moving." - New Yorker

 Neil Armstrong: A life of flight by Jay Barbree     $35.00
Barbree is the only person to whom the moon man has made his personal notes and perspectives available.

 Bully on the Bus by Kathryn Apel     $19.00
"She's big. She's smart. She's mean. She's the bully on the bus. She picks on me and I don't like it. But I don't know how to make her stop." The bully on the bus taunts seven-year-old Leroy, then silences him with threats of worse to come. To distract him, his teacher introduces him to the adventures in The Big Bad Book of Fairytales. Hidden throughout are the clues that Leroy needs to overcome the bullying taunts once and for all.

 Mapping le Tour: Updated history and route map of every Tour de France race by Ellis Bacon     $39.99
Let your fingers do the cycling (compete for the yellow glove!). 
Great maps.  

NZ Wild Life: Introducing the weird and wonderful character of natural New Zealand by Steve Trewick and Mary Morgan-Richards     $35.00
A handy little handbook (not just to the weird and wonderful). 

 Mrs D is Going Without: A memoir by Lotta Dann     $35.00
Lotta Dann started drinking aged fifteen, trained as a journalist aged eighteen and has spent the last twenty-plus years perfecting both skills. She built a successful career as a TV reporter, producer and director while simultaneously developing a remarkable aptitude for drinking a lot of alcohol. Lotta now lives sober with her TV-journalist husband and three sons in the hills of Wellington. This is her story.

 Numbers Are Forever: Mathematical facts and curios by Liz Strachan    $29.99
The numbers, the whole numbers and nothing but the numbers: perfect numbers, happy numbers, lucky, untouchable, weird, narcissistic, evil and deficient numbers, not to mention nice Friedmans and multi-legged repunits, as well as primes and their cousins, the sexy primes.

 30-Second Elements by Eric Scerri     $25.00
The 50 most significant chemical elements, each explained in half a minute. Attractively presented.
 

 Remember Me Like This by Bret Anthony Johnston     $38.00

"In this deeply nuanced portrait of an American family, Bret Anthony Johnston fearlessly explores the truth behind a mythic happy ending. He presents an incisive dismantling of an all-too-comforting fallacy: that in being found we are no longer lost.” — Alice Sebold

 Sweet One by Peter Docker    $37.00
"The best place to hide an icepick is in a truckload of icepicks."
A senior Aboriginal war veteran dies horribly at the hands of the authorities. A journalist flies to the goldfields of Western Australia to cover the story but finds herself imbedded in a secret war. A taut and challenging thriller.

Eyrie by Tim Winton      $30.00
"A superb tale of disillusionment and redemption, loss and beauty, this is Winton in top form." - Guardian
Now in paperback!

 Journalism Ethics for the Digital Age by Denis Muller     $37.00
New technologies, new challenges.

Angelica's Smile by Andrea Camilleri     $35.00
With the allure of Angelica beginning to consume him and his relationship with Livia under threat, Inspector Montalbano must focus his mind to solve a perplexing investigation before events spiral out of all control...

 The Lie by Hesh Kestin      $37.00
Dahlia Barr does not suffer fools gladly - or her own government, with which she is normally at odds. Shrewd, brash, and as tough as she is beautiful [not quantified], the controversial Israeli attorney specializes in defending Palestinians accused of terrorism.
"A masterfully wrought and mercilessly readable novel of intrigue, and terror. The Lie's political, cultural, and personal insights are matched only by its breathtaking action and suspense. Quite simply, the best thriller I've read in ages." - Jonathan Evison

 Ox Crimes: 27 killer stories from the cream of crimewriters    $29.99
All the top suspects appear in this identity parade to raise money for Oxfam, but the question remains: Can you get cream from an ox?

Survival of the Nicest: How altruism made us human and why it pays to get along by Stefan Klein     $39.99
"Klein transforms the Darwinian interpretation of evolution and resets the conversation about how we relate to each other as individuals and communities in this mind-bending book." - Publishers' Weekly

 Utterly Amazing Science by Robert Winston     $37.00
 Pop-ups, pull-outs, fantastic facts - what more could you want? 

 The Great New Zealand Cookbook: The food we love from 80 of our finest cooks, chefs and bakers   $49.99

Pretty Funny Tea Cosies by Loani Prior    $37.00
Works of art to warm the cockles of your pot.

 

The Fly Trap: A book about summer, islands and the freedom of limits by Fredrik Sjoberg      $29.99
Sjoberg spent seven years on a tiny Swedish island collecting hoverflies, and then wrote this very remarkable book about nature, place, culture and 'what life has to offer'. By looking at something very small, Sjoberg has managed to see something very big indeed. 
"The Fly Trap remains close to my heart. The minute observations from nature reveal sudden insights into one's life. Sometimes I almost think that Sjoberg wrote it for me." - Tomas Transtromer (Winner of the 2011 Nobel Prize for Literature)

The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith (a.k.a. J.K.K. Rowling)     $38.00
When novelist Owen Quine goes missing, his wife calls in private detective Cormoran Strike. How appropriate - he's a fictional detective! (he featured in Galbraith/Rowling's very enjoyable The Cuckoo's Calling). 
"Darkly gruesome!" - Lucy
Watch the trailer (not for lip-readers). 

Boyhood Island by Karl Ove Knausgaard         $38.00
The third part of Knausgaard's astoundingly compelling struggle to burst the novel form by over-packing it with detail. His omnivorous "autobiography" began with A Death in the Family, and treats the meaningful and the meaningless with equal penetration, placing it somewhere between Proust and reality television. The six-volume 'My Struggle' will be regarded as one of the crucial works of our time. 
"Even when I was bored I was interested." - James Wood 

 Child Poverty in New Zealand by Jonathan Boston and Simon Chapple    $49.99
Between 175,000 and 265,000 New Zealand children live in poverty, depending on the measure used. These disturbing figures are widely discussed, yet often poorly understood. If New Zealand does not have ‘third world poverty’, what are these children actually experiencing? This book addresses what is unfortunately the most urgent problem facing New Zealand.

 The First Bohemians: Life and art in London's Golden Age by Vic Gatrell      $29.99
In the teeming, disordered, and sexually charged square half-mile centred on London's Covent Garden something extraordinary evolved in the eighteenth century. It was the world's first creative 'Bohemia'.
"Irresistible - fizzing with life." - Philip Pullman, Observer

Em and the Big Hoom by Jerry Pinto     $45.00 
A dark and very funny account, set in Pinto's native Mumbai, of a man's search for the truth behind his parents' lives. 
"Profoundly moving. I cannot remember when I last read something as touching as this." - Amitav Ghosh
"A beautiful book." - Salman Rushdie
"This is a rare, brilliant book." - Kiran Desai

 Dissident Gardens by Jonathan Lethem     $28.00
Three generations of a radical New York family are revealed in this dazzling novel, based on the author's own family.
"Brilliant" - Guardian

 Science Ink: Tattoos of the science-obsessed by Carl Zimmer     $29.99
The tattoos of scientists and others illustrate Zimmer's short essays on their subjects. Fascinating browsing.

 Red Nile: A biography of the world's greatest river by Robert Twigger    $29.99
So much begins on the Nile: all religion, all life, all stories, the script we write in, the language we speak, the gods, the legends and the names of stars. The river that flows through a quarter of Africa also flows through history. 
"If you have read Twigger before, you will know to expect divergence, wit, a weakness with the esoteric, and an ability to make even the most obscure details seem relevant. All of which is perfectly suited to this subject and makes for an entertaining and absorbing read." - Guardian

 Compartment No.6 by Rosa Liksom      $29.99
A young woman boards a train in Moscow and finds herself sharing a carriage with foul-mouthed ex-soldier. As they travel across the winter vastness of Russia a kind of grudging companionship grows between them.
"Both atmospheric and beautiful, an elegy to the Soviet Union and its people, the land where 'unhappiness is perceived as happiness’.” - Helsingborgs Dagblad
Winner of the 2011 Finlandia Prize. 

 Into the Woods: How stories work and why we tell them by John Yorke     $29.99
"Brimmingly insightful, fresh, enlightening and accessible. A gripping read from beginning to end." - Sunday Times 
"So detailed and engaging is his methodology that any consumer of books, plays, TV or films will find the experience enhanced; and scriptwriters themselves will find useful guidance - because when you know the why, the how is natural." - Independent on Sunday

 To Rise Again at a Decent Hour by Joshua Ferris    $37.00
"There's nothing like a dental chair to remind a man that he's alone in the world, subject to pain, blood, decay, and a slow attenuation back down to the elements."
A humdrum dentist in a humdrum world collides with existential behemoths and becomes enmeshed in pseudobiblical esoterica! Funny (both haha and peculiar).

Going to Extremes: Adventures in Unknown New Zealand by David Grzelewski     $39.99
Grzelewski takes you to extraordinary, unknown, overlooked and inaccessible places, and introduces you to a diverse range of people, some forgotten, some 'elite', some 'ordinary'. From the author of the deservedly popular Trout Diaries and Trout Bohemia. 

 Northmen's Fury: A history of the Viking world by Philip Parker      $65.00
From the first pinprick raids of the eighth century to the great armies that left their Scandinavian homelands to conquer larger parts of France, Britain and Ireland. The epic voyages that took them across the Atlantic to the icy fjords of Greenland and to North America over four centuries before Columbus, and east to the great rivers of Russia and the riches of the Byzantine empire. And a bit of time at home, too. 

In Between Dreams by Iman Verjee      $35.00
A psychologically astute coming of age story of a teenage girl trying to find herself, and a taboo love affair and its inescapable consequences, for fans of Emma Donoghue and Lionel Shriver.

Hell on Wheels: An illustrated history of outlaw motorcycle clubs by Bill Hayes     $55.00
"In a world where most of us roll over when confronted by the power of authority, the antihero figure of the outlaw biker stands beyond the crowd, a beacon of social freedom."

June Rain by Jabbour Douaihy       $28.00
One of Lebanon's leading writers recreates a village forever transformed by the massacre of one community by another, and its impact on a mother and her long-estranged son. 

 The Diary of a Provincial Lady by E.M. Delafield    $29.99
"January 22nd - Robert startles me at breakfast by asking if my cold - which he has hitherto ignored - is better. I reply that it has gone. Then why, he asks, do I look like that? Feel that life is wholly unendurable, and decide madly to get a new hat."
A sharply observed comic novel, as funny and fresh today as when it was first written. Widely regarded as one of the funniest English authors and an heir to Jane Austen, E.M. Delafield was born in Sussex in 1890.

 The New Yorker Book of the 40s: Story of a decade     $65.00
The Nuremberg Trials and Israeli statehood, Casablanca and Duke Ellington, smallpox and skyscrapers, FDR and Le Corbusier, zoot suits and Christian Dior, as seen by the columnists of The New Yorker. 

 On Anarchism by Noam Chomsky     $15.00
An essential introduction to Chomsky's political theory.

 Italian Ways: On and off the rails from Milan to Palermo by Tim Parks      $29.99
"Tim Parks has written a book about Italian railways that is engrossing, entertaining, and wonderfully revealing about the country and its people. It makes perfect armchair travelling - a delight from beginning to end" - David Lodge

 Wreck This Journal Everywhere by Keri Smith     $16.00
Wreck This Journal Everywhere will have you travelling the city streets and country byways, filling the pages with man-made and natural objects, recording what you see, drawing, doodling - and destroying pages as you go! Perfect for sliding in your pocket or stuffing in your bag - the ideal creative companion!
Dozens of new activities, and favourites from the very popular Wreck This Journal. 

Lying Under the Apple Tree by Alice Munro    $29.99
Selected stories from the last fifteen years, from the 2013 winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.
"Munro is still one of our most fearless explorers of the human being, as she descends, time and again, headlamp on full beam, pickaxe and butter-knife at the ready." - The Times

 The Truth is a Cave in the Black Mountains by Neil Gaiman, illustrated by Eddie Campbell      $38.00
A stunningly illustrated edition of Gaiman's tale of family, the otherworld and a search for hidden treasure.  

 My Fellow Prisoners by Mikhail Khodorkovsky     $16.00
One in ten Russian men spend time in jail. This book, by the oligarch who fell foul of the politicos, is an indictment of an entire system of bureaucratic criminality.

 The Climb by Chris Froome     $38.00
The autobiography of the winner of the 100th Tour de France.  

 Cop Town by Karin Slaughter     $37.00
"Much more than a thriller. Slaughter's unforgettable female characters, and stunning evocation of time and place, make Cop Town one of the most powerful and moving reads of recent memory. A masterpiece." - Kathryn Stockett, author of The Help.

 The Long Mars by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter    $38.00
Ignorance and fear have caused 'normal' human society to turn against the Next, and the authorities, afraid of anything or anyone not deemed 'normal', order that all Next children be imprisoned.
#3 of 'The Long Earth' series.

The Murder of Harriet Krohn by Karin Fossum    $38.00 
Told through the eyes of a killer, The Murder of Harriet Krohn poses the question: how far would you go to turn your life around, and could you live with yourself afterwards? Inspector Konrad Sejer has never lost a case yet!

 The Footloose American: Following the Hunter S. Thompson trail across South America by Brian Kevin     $29.99
In 1963, twenty-five-year-old Hunter S. Thompson, who would become America's bestselling 'gonzo journalist', completed a year-long journey across South America, filing a series of dispatches for a now-defunct paper called the National Observer. With the gritty humour and keen political observations for which he later became known, correspondent Thompson reflected on topics that continue to make headlines today: the rise of leftist populism, struggles over resource extraction, the marginalization of indigenous peoples. Brian Kevin follows his skid-marks.  

The Double by Fyodor Dostoyevsky       $26.00
Dostoyevsky's profound tale of a shy clerk whose life is progressively usurped by a more confident and aggressive version of himself has now been made into a film. Read the book first!

The Spy Who Changed the World: Klaus Fuchs and the secrets of the nuclear bomb by Mike Rossiter    $39.99
Brilliant German physicist Klaus Fuchs worked on the Manhattan Project and developed many of the significant calculations that led to the creation of nuclear weaponry. He was also a spy. Thanks to him, the Russians were at work on their own bomb, and the nuclear arms race was born.

The Visitors by Simon Sylvester   $35.00
After a stranger and his daughter move to a remote Scottish Island, the locals start to disappear...
"Dreamlike, delicate and compelling." - The Big Issue

Shakespeare Insult Generator: Mix and match more than 150,000 insults in the Bard's own words by Barry Kraft    $25.00
Very handy in a social setting.
We've been using it to perfect our customer service.
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