What exactly is a book? This inventive and thought-provoking volume asks that question of more than 30 of today's top creative visionaries, from Ed Ruscha to Miranda July, John Baldessari to Jonathan Lethem. Each traditional element of a book, from endpapers to footnotes, is assigned to a different artist or writer invited to use the space as a creative playground. What happens when art and literature collide?
"You will like this." - Thomas
New Zealand came of age in a bungalow. Small and utilitarian or rambling and ornate, the houses in this outstanding book characterise the demand for practical, comfortable, well-built homes in a country gaining confidence in its identity. Each reading is a satisfying visit.
A feast for the eyes, the tongue, the stomach and the imagination.
Piece by piece the wolf puts on his clothes. He puts on his trousers, his tee-shirt, his socks, his great big boots, his great big coat. He’s getting ready. What’s he going to do when he’s ready? Well, what do you think! The wolf’s jaws and the book snap shut. We shriek. And start all over again.
What a wonderful sideways fascinating book! Beside or behind every famous achiever stood or sat someone without whom the achievement would not have made. This book looks at these often-neglected human catalysts.
We love this book (several staff bought a copy straight from the carton)!
Marae:
A Journey Around New Zealand's Meeting Houses by Muru
Walters, Robin Walters & Sam Walters
$80.00
A beautifully
and thoughtfully photographed record of wharenui throughout the country: large,
tiny, ornate, plain, ancient, contemporary. Various though they are, they each
form the heart of their community.
How Does It Hurt? Narrating pain by Stephanie de Montalk $40.00
De Montalk writes interestingly of her own chronic pain, and considers the role of pain in the lives and writing of three other sufferers. How does pain change our perceptions and our memories? How does pain change the way we think and the way be relate to our world?
Time and Time Again by Ben Elton $36.99
If you had one chance to change history...Where would you go? What would you do? Who would you kill?
De Montalk writes interestingly of her own chronic pain, and considers the role of pain in the lives and writing of three other sufferers. How does pain change our perceptions and our memories? How does pain change the way we think and the way be relate to our world?
If you had one chance to change history...Where would you go? What would you do? Who would you kill?
Forensically researched and grippingly told, Hitler's First Victims is a fast-paced narrative reconstruction of six dramatic weeks in 1933 that tells the astonishing true story of a German prosecutor, Josef Hartinger, and his race to expose the Nazis as murderers on the eve of the Holocaust.
Chopstick, an alienated young punk rocker, who with his friends, have hatched a plan to sabotage the opening of a multi-national fast-food restaurant by blowing it sky-high come opening day. Chopstick has been given the unenviable task of setting the bomb before the opening, but the night takes the first of many unexpected turns when he is separated from his accomplice. Chance encounters and events from his past conspire against him, forcing Chopstick to deal with more than just the mission at hand. Chopstick’s journey is a meditation on life, love, friendship and blowing things up! The complete edition of this remarkable graphic novel.
Marcel the soulful elephant is writing an encyclopaedia, and his entries are featured in full-page spreads packed with facts, elegantly situated alongside the story of his day and his life.
Dorrity is the only child in magic-free Owl Town. When she finds an enchanted book with dire predictions, she must face her enemies. And who is the strange boy who has appeared in the Beastly Dark?
A selection of the best articles by the author of Bad Science and Bad Pharma.
Covers everything from building to eating!
Travel along the button road with Bert Williams and learn more about his life as a truck driver from the people who knew him. Bert was a real person and his story is told in wool, cotton and linen, buttons, beads and pebbles, cardboard, Dinky miniature toy trucks and Meccano. Includes CD.
Ghosts aren't as scary as they used to be. They need a school to improve their frightfulness.
Strang was a key figure in the flourishing Dunedin music and arts scene in the 1980s and 1990s. After his suicide in 2000, the full extent and depth of his poetry was discovered and has at last been published.
London. Girls are disappearing. They've all got one thing in common; they just don't know it yet. Sixteen-year-old Lily was meant to be next, but she's saved by a stranger: a half-human boy with gold-flecked eyes. Regan is from an unseen world hidden within our own, where legendary creatures hide in plain sight. But now both worlds are under threat, and Lily and Regan must race to find the girls, and save their divided city.
"I’m a fan of Lena Dunham. She’s recently become quite the feminist icon. Her television show Girls has been quite a radical shift in the way that we normally see women in mainstream media. Her new book is a series of autobiographical essays that subvert the format of the typical 1980s female self-improvement book. She talks about a lot of issues that she has had in her own life, which were really interesting. If you like feminist autobiographies then I’d definitely recommend that you pick this one up." - Holly
In 1797 Friedrich Schlegel wrote "philosophy of art usually lacks one of two things: either the philosophy, or the art." This collection of essays contains both the philosophy and the art. It brings together an international team of leading philosophers to address diverse philosophical issues raised by recent works of art.
King Duncan of Araluen has an urgent mission for Hal and the Heron brotherband. One assassination attempt on his daughter Cassandra was foiled - but the would-be killers are from the deadly Scorpion cult, and they won't be satisfied until they have completed their task. The Herons team up with Ranger Gilan to track the killers across the deserts of Arrida and infiltrate their mountain lair. But the Scorpion assassins are not the only threat the brotherband will face.
A coruscating, tragic evocation of the reality of war and its dirty aftermath. The prequel to her masterpiece, Suite Francaise.
An old house surrounded by acres of forest. A place of secrets, mysteries and magic. This is where Reve Dyer hopes to keep herself and her children safe. But a mysterious figure has haunted Reve for over a decade. And now Reve knows that this person is on her trail again. In Hawley, where the magic of her ancestors reigns, Reve must unlock the secrets of the Hawley 'Book of the Dead' before it's too late.
The book covers everything from how to buy a boat through to how to launch it, ski from it, catch fish from it and, most importantly of all, how to stay safe while doing so.
James Prendergast was arguably New Zealand's dominant legal professional from 1865 to 1899, but is the most infamous figure in our legal history, largely because his condemnation of the Treat of Waitangi. This is a fascinating biography, exploring, among other things, his role in the invasion of Parihaka.
Another enthralling thriller in Cornwell's high-stakes series starring Kay Scarpetta - a complex tale involving a serial sniper who strikes chillingly close to the forensic sleuth herself.
Ten short stories, and two longer historical ones, bring to life the thrills and challenges of sailing, paddling and travelling on the seas around New Zealand. From the author of the 'Alex' quartet.
