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
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
"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 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."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.
Author interview here.
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
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
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.
"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
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.
Does our body direct our mind as much as our mind directs our body?
Here's the author.
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.
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.
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
Barbree is the only person to whom the moon man has made his personal notes and perspectives available.
"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.
Let your fingers do the cycling (compete for the yellow glove!).
Great maps.
A handy little handbook (not just to the weird and wonderful).
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.
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.
The 50 most significant chemical elements, each explained in half a minute. Attractively presented.
"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.
"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.
"A superb tale of disillusionment and redemption, loss and beauty, this is Winton in top form." - Guardian
Now in paperback!
New technologies, new challenges.
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...
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
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?
"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
Pop-ups, pull-outs, fantastic facts - what more could you want?
Works of art to warm the cockles of your pot.
