New books to hit the spot


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2 January 2015


http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/853322?barcode=9780385354301&title=TheStrangeLibrary
The Strange Library by Haruki Murakami, designed by Chip Kidd      $39.99
Chip Kidd's American edition has a very different feel from the edition designed by Suzanne Dean, but is just as wonderful.
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/835432-SeeHowSmall-9780007580958
See How Small by Scott Blackwood      $26.99
"A genre-defying novel of powerful emotion, intrigue, and truth. Reminiscent of Alice Sebold’s The Lovely Bones and based on a similar, still-unsolved 1991 case in Austin, Tex., Blackwood explores the effects of senseless crime on an innocent, tightly knit community, using deft prose to mine the essence of human grief and compassion." - Publishers' Weekly
"This lyrical, abstract novel may haunt literary fiction readers long after the unsettling ending." - Library Journal
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/768793-TheUnAmericans-9780007548811
The UnAmericans by Molly Antopol        $35.00
"The stories are as satisfying as individual novels. They'll make you nostalgic, not just for earlier times, but for another era in short fiction: a time when writers such as Bernard Malamud, and Issac Bashevis Singer and Grace Paley roamed the earth." - Meg Wolitzer (author of The Interestings)
"First-rate short stories." - The Telegraph
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/821638-RiverCottageLightEasy-HealthyRecipesforEveryDay-9781408853535
River Cottage: Light and Easy, Healthy recipes for every day by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall      $59.99
Dairy-free, wheat-free and delicious!
https://pageblackmore.circlesoft.net/products/788589-TheBoneDragon-9780571295623
The Bone Dragon by Alexia Casale      $18.00
“Casale’s dazzling debut begins with a sick girl who, when presented with a fragment of her own rib, carves it into the shape of a dragon. And then it just gets stranger. A haunting portrayal of damage, resilience and revenge, and one of the finest novels of the year – in any category. Beautifully written, poetic and haunting." - Financial Times
"An outstanding book that vividly portrays the power and fragility of the human heart and mind." - The Guardian
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/840835-MyHiroshima-9780734416025
My Hiroshima by Junko Morimoto     $19.99
 On 6 August, 1945, 13-year-old Junko Morimoto's life was changed forever. That was the day that an atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, the Japanese city where she lived. She tells her story in this beautiful, poignant and hopeful book.
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/843350-ConfessionsofaSociopathALifeSpentHidinginPlainSight-9781447242734
Confessions of a Sociopath: A life spent hiding in plain sight by M.E. Thomas      $25.00
M. E. Thomas is a high-functioning non-criminal sociopath. She is charismatic, ambitious and successful. You would be charmed by her if you met her. You would not realise that she is studying you to find your flaws, that she is ruthlessly manipulative, has no empathy and does not feel guilt or remorse. But she does like people - she likes to touch them, mould them and ruin them. She could be your friend or your boss. She could be you.
"Gripping and important. Revelatory." - Jon Ronson (author of The Psychopath Test), New York Times

http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/833134-ADifferentClassOfMurder-TheStoryOfLordLucan-9781781855379
A Different Class of Murder: The story of Lord Lucan by Laura Thompson      $35.00
On 7 November 1974, a nanny named Sandra Rivett was bludgeoned to death in a Belgravia basement. A second woman, Veronica, Countess of Lucan, was also attacked. The man named in court as perpetrator of these crimes, Richard John Bingham, 7th Earl of Lucan, disappeared in the early hours of the following morning. The case, solved in the eyes of the law, has retained its fascination ever since. Why?
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/855618-Redeployment-9780857864246
Redeployment by Phil Klay    $25.00
Winner of the US National Book Award - now in paperback.
"In Klay's hands, Iraq comes across not merely as a theatre of war but as a laboratory for the human condition in extremis." - New York Times
"Redeployment is the real thing - a vivid and vital battery of war stories that does not rely soley on its subject matter for impact (although, make no mistake, the subject certainly has impact)." - Guardian
"One of the great story collections of recent times." - Colum McCann
"Stunning, upsetting, urgently necessary." - Karen Russell

http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/833418?barcode=9781782113805&title=TroutFishinginAmerica
Trout Fishing in America by Richard Brautigan       $25.00
We are pleased that Brautigan's incomparable novels and story collections, bursting with zany imagination and shot through with wistful melancholy, are being reissued. In this book he uses the theme of trout fishing to thread together a series of observations and critiques of mainstream American culture that range from wry to devastating.
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/859692?barcode=9780745669779&title=TheFanaticismoftheApocalypseSavetheEarth%2CPunishHumanBeings
The Fanaticism of the Apocalypse: Save the earth! Punish human beings! by Pascal Bruckner     $37.00
Is ecological catastrophism preventing us from solvable problems and injustices?
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/840854-DeepBlueWaterfireSaga1-9781444921205
Deep Blue ('Waterfire Saga' #1) by Jennifer Donnelly      $19.99
"Percy Jackson with mermaids!" - The Bookseller
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/834857?barcode=9781742576282&title=BritishPopInvasion
British Pop Invasion edited by Alan J. Whiticker        $59.99
Fifty years ago British music burst onto the world stage. This book is stuffed with rarely seen photos from the early 1960s.
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/855853?barcode=9780764968761&title=Samurai500-pieceJigsawPuzzle
On holiday? Come in and choose a jigsaw puzzle.



 
May 2015 be filled with happiness and books (if such a distinction can be made). Best wishes from all of us at Page & Blackmore.