Inside the Head of Bruno Schulz by Maxim Biller (and Bruno Schulz) $28.99
"Do you see what kind of a madhouse this town of Drohobycz is now, Dr Mann?" Locked away in a dimly lit cellar in a provincial Polish town, the writer Bruno Schulz is composing a letter to Thomas Mann, warning him of a sinister impostor who has deceived the gullible inhabitants of Drohobycz. In return, he's hoping that the great writer might help him to escape - from his apocalyptic visions, his bird-brained students, the imminent Nazi invasion, and a sadistic sports mistress called Helena. Biller's blend of biographical fact and surreal fiction is followed by two of Schulz's own stories, 'Cinnamon Street' and 'Birds'.
"This is going straight to the top of my reading pile." - Thomas
Bert is eleven and wants nothing more than to fight in the war. But he soon learns that the secrets and danger of war don't always stay at the front line.
"There is something so celebratory about Emma Neale’s poetry, about its eager, informed, needle-eyed engagement with the contemporary world. She runsthe hot thread of linguistic flare and precision through whatever occasion she takes up." - Vincent O'Sullivan
"An ideal antidote to a year of reductive discussions of immigration, Sunjeev Sahota’s novel takes you deep into the lives of a group of Indian labourers thrown together in Sheffield. Sahota builds a portrait of the often painful circumstances that lead these men to abandon life in India for this cold, damp city, in the hope of starting afresh." - Independent
"A brilliant and beautiful novel. Sahota moves some of the most urgent political questions of the day away from rhetorical posturing and contested statistics into the realm of humanity." - Guardian
Long-listed for the 2015 Man Booker Prize.
The first novel from the architect of the Noveau roman, translated into English for the first time by the Modernist saint John Calder. A statistician decides to assassinate the king, but does the action take place inside or outside the protagonist's head?
From the grand tour by the 1888 Natives to the upcoming 2015 World Cup, from games in the North African desert in World War II to matches behind barbed wire during the 1981 Springbok tour, from grassroots club rugby to heaving crowds outside Eden Park, Lancaster Park, Athletic Park or Carisbrook, who could be better than the magisterial Ron Palenski to tell the full sporting and social history a nation's paddock-stomping obsession?
After an untimely exit from the Royal New Zealand Air Force, Matt McLaughlin took a leap into the unknown, travelling to New Guinea in the 1990s to work as a missionary pilot. He soon switched from missionary to mercenary, and over the next three and a half years, as he built up the necessary experience to chase his goal of becoming an airline captain, his life was a rollercoaster ride of adventure, risk, near-misses, and tragedy.
When Theodora Tenpenny spills a bottle of rubbing alcohol on her late grandfather's painting, she discovers what seems to be an old Renaissance masterpiece underneath. That's great news for Theo, who's struggling to hang onto her family's two-hundred-year-old townhouse and support her unstable mother on her grandfather's legacy of $463. There's just one problem: Theo's grandfather was a security guard at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and she worries the painting may be stolen.
Digital interconnectedness has played havoc with traditional concepts of identity. Is this a good thing?
Mr. and Mrs. Mo are busy painting the house, and the monster is bored ... until he gets a grand idea: he’s off to see the world! But his adventure becomes bigger than he expected, and the monster wishes Mrs. Mo had come after all—with some sandwiches.
A social and photographic history of Collingwood Area School and of the eight other local schools that once served the area.
Published by the Top of the South branch of the NZSA, this collection contains winning stories from the Page & Blackmore National Short Story Competitions and poems selected for the window of the Nelson Provincial Museum.
"This is a wide-ranging collection of stories and poems. Some vividly evoke the local scene and people who live here. Others go out into the world, sometimes into strange places, or dark places in the mind. It's an enjoyable collection by writers who know what they want to say and how to say it." - Maurice Gee
One late-winter morning, a young man is cycling downhill to primary school when he encounters a peculiar man. After a brief conversation this earthy apparition endows him with a gift: an internal clock that allows him to see into the future and exist in the present at the same time. The young man becomes Timeskipper, seeing and foreseeing the epochal events of his era, from postwar reconstruction to the birth of television.
"Thanks to Benni we have a renewed appreciation of the imagination's ability to free us from our increasingly mundane surroundings." - The New York Times
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No end of good food - no end of good cookbooks from Revive Cafe. Revive's delicious vegetarian food contains whole grains, plant-based protein, fresh produce and virtually no processed sugars or flours. The majority of the dishes are also dairy and gluten free.
"For as long as I stay here, I know I will have to also get to the wild places." - Robert Macfarlane
This pocket-sized miscellany, packed with tips on equipment, food, surviving bad weather and finding the right campsite, and with facts and stories from the world of camping. With this book you won't even need to go camping.
Orry-Kelly created magic on screen, from Casablanca and The Maltese Falcon to Oklahoma! and Some Like It Hot. He won three Oscars for costume design. He dressed all the biggest stars, from Bette Davis to Marilyn Monroe. His memoirs, recently discovered hidden in a pillowcase, give a full-throttle account of life beyond the edges the silver screen.
Just how close were Edward VIII and Wallace Simpson to Adolf Hitler? Far too close, it now seems. Would Edward have reascended the throne as a puppet king if the Allies had been defeated?
This charming picture book, first published in Sweden in 1912, tells of the help Pelle gives to the various people to turn his sheep's wool into a new set of clothes.
