Bookshelf by Lydia Pyne        $23.00

What does a bookshelf mean? Bookshelves are holders not just of books but of so many other things: values, vibes, and verbs that can be contained and displayed in the buildings and rooms of contemporary human existence. With a shrewd eye toward this particular moment in the history of books, Pyne takes the reader on a tour of the bookshelf that leads critically to this juncture: amid rumors of the death of book culture, why is the life of the bookshelf in full bloom?

Martin John by Anakana Schofield       $24.99

"Martin John must put a stop to it. They have an agreement, he and Mam. Get out to Aunty Noanie on Wednesday. Stop talking rubbish. Don't go near the buses and don't go down on the Tube. Keep yourself on the outside. Get a job at night. Get a job at night or else I'll come for ya. But Martin John can't stop. Meddlers are interrupting him and Martin John doesn't like Meddlers. If he's interrupted he can't complete his circuits; if he can't complete his circuits, bad things may happen. That's a fact."

"Deploying some serious literary gumption, Schofield’s frequently hilarious, and distinctly modernist, linguistic games are always gainfully employed in the uneasy, indelicate task of placing her reader nose to nose with the humanity of a sex offender. Addictively reflexive, and potentially lethal." - Eimear McBride, New York Times

At the Existentialist Café by Sarah Bakewell       $49.99

Paris, near the turn of 1933. Three young friends meet over apricot cocktails at the Bec-de-Gaz bar on the rue Montparnasse. They are Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir and their friend Raymond Aron, who opens their eyes to a radical new way of thinking. Pointing to his drink, he says, "You can make philosophy out of this cocktail!" From this moment of inspiration, Sartre will create his own extraordinary philosophy of real, experienced life - of love and desire, of freedom and being, of cafes and waiters, of friendships and revolutionary fervour. It is a philosophy that will enthral Paris and sweep through the world, leaving its mark on post-war liberation movements, from the student uprisings of 1968 to civil rights pioneers. At the Existentialist Café tells the story of modern existentialism as one of passionate encounters between people, minds and ideas. 

 Adrift: A secret life of London's waterways by Helen Babbs       $45.00
From Walthamstow Marsh in the east to Uxbridge in the west, Helen Babbs journeys along London's waterways on a canal boat called Pike, putting down roots for two weeks at a time before moving on. Taking in the River Lea and the Lee Navigation, the Regent's Canal and the Grand Union, she explores the London landscape in all its guises: marshland, wasteland, city centre and suburb. Adrift charts a year of Babbs's life on Pike, exploring the changes wreaked by the seasons as well as by developers, and recounting the practical trials of living aboard. It is a story of mapping and discovery, of escape and opting out, but also of making connections and finding home.

Between a Wolf and a Dog by Georgia Blain         $37.00

Ester is a family therapist with an appointment book that catalogues the anxieties of the middle class: loneliness, relationships, death. She spends her days helping others find happiness, but her own family relationships are tense and frayed. Estranged from both her sister, April, and her ex-husband, Lawrence, Ester wants to fall in love again. Meanwhile, April is struggling through her own directionless life; Lawrence's reckless past decisions are catching up with him; and Ester and April's mother, Hilary, is about to make a choice that will profoundly affect then all.

"What a marvellously clear eye Georgia Blain has for the ways in which we love and harm one another. A remarkable book." - Michelle de Kretser 

 Quite a Good Time to Be Born: A memoir, 1935-1975 by David Lodge     $29.99
"What one takes away from this half-memoir is the self-portrait of an extraordinarily good, wrongly modest man; a distinguished scholar, and one of the finest of current novelists." - Spectator 
 "As a piece of reportage from the third quarter of the English 20th century this is a sociologist's paradise." - Guardian

 Anya's War by Andrea Alban        $19.99
 Anya Rosen and her family have left their home in Odessa for Shanghai, believing that China will be a safe haven from Hitler's forces. At first, Anya's life in the Jewish Quarter of Shanghai is privileged and relatively carefree: she has crushes on boys, fights with her mother, and longs to defy expectations just like her here, Amelia Earhart. Then Anya finds a baby - a newborn abandoned on the street. Amelia Earhart goes missing. And it becomes dangerously clear that no place is safe, not for Jewish families like the Rosens, not for Shanghai's poor, not for adventurous women pilots. 
>> Set in a little-known chapter of Holocaust history.

 Neverhome by Laird Hunt       $26.00
"I was strong and he was not so it was me went to war to defend the Republic. I stepped across the border out of Indiana into Ohio. Twenty dollars, two salt-pork sandwiches, and I took jerky, biscuits, six old apples, fresh underthings and a blanket too. There was a conflagration to come; I wanted to lend it my spark." Meet Gallant Ash: hero, folk legend, master of war (and woman).
"A beguiling and evocative story about love and loss, duty and deceit. Neverhome took me on a journey so thoroughly engrossing that there were times the pages seemed to turn themselves." - Kevin Powers (The Yellow Birds)
"A brilliant and breathtaking blaze of a novel." - Guardian

 The Making of Zombie Wars by Aleksandar Hemon       $24.99
 Josh Levin is an aspiring screenwriter teaching ESL classes in Chicago. His laptop is full of ideas, but the only one to really take root is Zombie Wars. When Josh comes home to discover his landlord, an unhinged army vet, rifling through his dirty laundry, he decides to move in with his girlfriend, Kimmy. It's domestic bliss for a moment, but Josh becomes entangled with a student, a Bosnian woman named Ana, whose husband is jealous and violent. Disaster ensues, and  Josh's choices move from silly to profoundly absurd...
 "A raucous, hilarious book. Deadly funny." - Chicago Magazine
"Hemon is remarkable for his playful, loving and endlessly generative relationship with language." - Guardian

 The Wander Society by Keri Smith         $38.00
You are electing to join a secret underground movement. Membership will require you to conduct research on your immediate environment and complete a variety of assignments designed to creatively disrupt your everyday life. That is all you need to know for now. All else will be revealed in time. Society wants us to live a planned existence. The path of the wanderer is not this! The path of the wanderer is an experiment with the unknown. To be idle, to play, to daydream. The Wander Society offers us a way to experience the joys and possibilities of unplanned time.

 A Sky Full of Birds: In search of murders, murmurations and Britain's great bird gatherings by Matt Merritt       $39.99
Poet and nature writer Matt Merritt shares his passion for birdwatching by taking us to some of the great avian gatherings that occur around the British isles - from ravens in Anglesey and raptors on the Wirral, to Kent nightingales and Scottish capercallies.

 Trading Futures by Jim Powell       $37.99
Matthew Oxenhay is sixty, a stranger to his wife, an embarrassment to his children, and failed former contender for the top job at his City firm. Seizing on his birthday party as an opportunity to deliver some rather crushing home truths to his assembled loved ones, it seems as though Matthew might have hit rock bottom. The truth, however, is that he has some way to go yet...

 Shackleton's Journey: Activity book by William Grill      $27.99
If you haven't got a copy of Shackleton's Journey yet, get yourself (or someone else) a copy now. If you already have a copy you will love these creative and informative activities!

Hood by Alison Kenney        $23.00

We all wear hoods: the Grim Reaper, Red Riding Hood, torturers, executioners and the executed, athletes, laborers, anarchists, rappers, babies in onesies, and anyone who's ever grabbed a hoodie on a chilly day. Alison Kinney's Hood explores the material and symbolic vibrancy of this everyday garment and political semaphore, which often protects the powerful at the expense of the powerless-with deadly results. Kinney considers medieval clerics and the Klan, anti-hoodie campaigns and the Hooded Man of Abu Ghraib, the Inquisition and the murder of Trayvon Martin, uncovering both the hooded perpetrators of violence and the hooded victims in their sights.

 Continental Shift: An investigative journey into Africa's 21st century by Kevin Bloom and Richard Poplak         $39.99
Africa is failing. Africa is succeeding. Africa is betraying its citizens. Africa is a place of starvation, corruption, disease. African economies are soaring faster than any on earth. Africa is squandering its bountiful resources. Africa is a roadmap for global development. Africa is turbulent. Africa is stabilising. Africa is doomed. Africa is the future. All of these pronouncements prove equally true and false, as South African journalists Richard Poplak and Kevin Bloom discover on their 9-year roadtrip through the paradoxical continent they call home.

Shipping Container by Craig Martin    $23.00

The shipping container is all around: whizzing by on the highway, trundling past on rails, unloading behind a big box store even as you shop there, clanking on the docks just out of sight. 90% of the goods and materials that move around the globe do so in shipping containers. It is a ubiquitous object, even if most of us have no direct contact with it. But what is this thing? Where has it been, and where is it going? This book illuminates the "development of containerization", including design history, standardization, aesthetics, and a speculative discussion of the future of shipping containers.

 What Belongs to You by Garth Greenwell        $27.99
An American teaching in an American high school in Bulgaria, who is estranged from his father, who longs for a stable life with a steady boyfriend. Instead, he becomes obsessed with Mitko, a sex worker he meets cruising in a toilet.
"The great gay novel of our times." - New Republic 
>> Interview with the author.  

Cigarette Lighter by Jack Pendaris       $23.00

Smokers, survivalists, teenagers, collectors... The cigarette lighter is a charged, complex, yet often entirely disposable object that moves across these various groups of people, acquiring and emitting different meanings while always supplying its primary function, that of ignition. While the lighter may seem at first a niche object-only for old fashioned cigarette smokers-in this book Jack Pendarvis explodes the lighter as something with deep history, as something with quirky episodes in cultural contexts, and as something that dances with wide ranging taboos and traditions. Pendarvis shows how the lighter tarries with the cheapest ends of consumer culture as much as it displays more profound dramas of human survival, technological advances, and aesthetics.

 Rosetta by Alexandra Joel           $39.99
 The story of a scandalous Australian woman who enchanted British society. Headstrong and beautiful, in 1905 Rosetta escaped her safe Melbourne life, deserting her respectable husband and five-year-old daughter to run away with Zeno the Magnificent, a half-Chinese fortune teller and seducer of souls. The pair reinvented themselves in London, where they beguiled European society and risked everything for a life of glamour and desire. Rosetta said she was American; Zeno claimed to be a brilliant Japanese professor. Together they attracted the patronage of famous writers, inventors and scientists, lords and ladies, dukes and duchesses. 

 Ladivine by Marie Ndiaye          $34.99
Clarisse Riviere's life is shaped by a refusal to admit to her husband Richard and to her daughter Ladivine that her mother is a poor black housekeeper. Instead, weighed down by guilt, she pretends to be an orphan, visiting her mother in secret and telling no-one of her real identity as Malinka, daughter of Ladivine Sylla. In time, her lies turn against her. Richard leaves Clarisse, frustrated by the unbridgeable, indecipherable gulf between them. Clarisse is devastated, but finds solace in a new man, Freddy Moliger, who is let into the secret about her mother, and is even introduced to her. But Ladivine, her daughter, who is now married herself, cannot shake a bad feeling about her mother's new lover, convinced that he can bring only chaos and pain into her life. 

Shift by Em Bailey        $24.99
Olive Corbett is definitely not crazy. Not anymore. These days she takes her meds like a good girl, hangs out with her best friend Ami, and stays the hell away from the toxic girls she used to be friends with. She doesn't need a boyfriend. Especially not a lifesaver-type with a nice smile. And she doesn't need the drama of that creepy new girl Miranda, who has somehow latched on to Olive's ex-best friend. Yet from a distance, Olive can see there's something sinister about the new friendship. Something almost ...parasitic. Maybe the wild rumours are true. Maybe Miranda is a killer. But who would believe Olive? She does have a habit of letting her imagination run away with her...

 Ka Ngaro te Reo: Maori language under siege in the nineteenth century by Paul Moon     $39.99
In 1800, te reo Maori was the only language spoken in New Zealand. By 1899, it was on the verge of disappearing altogether. Paul Moon traces the spiralling decline of the language during an era of prolonged colonisation that saw political, economic, cultural and linguistic power shifting steadily into the hands of the European core.

 Light: A radiant history by Bruce Watson       $39.99
Light begins at Stonehenge, where crowds cheer a solstice sunrise. After sampling myths explaining First Light, the story moves on to early philosophers' queries, then through the centuries, from Buddhist temples to Biblical scripture, when light was the soul of the divine. Battling darkness and despair, Gothic architects crafted radiant cathedrals while Dante dreamed a "heaven of pure light." Later, following Leonardo's advice, Renaissance artists learned to capture light on canvas. During the Scientific Revolution, Galileo gathered light in his telescope, Descartes measured the rainbow, and Newton used prisms to solidify the science of optics. But even after Newton, light was an enigma. Particle or wave? Did it flow through an invisible "ether"? Through the age of Edison and into the age of lasers, Light reveals how light sparked new wonders - relativity, quantum electrodynamics, fiber optics, lasers and more.
"For the rest of my life I will reflect on what light is." - Albert Einstein

 A Little Lumpen Novelita by Roberto Bolano       $19.99
 "Now I am a mother and a married woman, but not long ago I led a life of crime." Another book from the posthumously prodigious Bolano! 
 "A Little Lumpen Novelita, while short, is among Bolano's most intoxicating works. Obsessive and ambiguous, its open-ended nature is reflective not only of the protagonist but of the author himself. And it further cements him as a master of the form, of any form." - NPR 

 Vintage Tattoo Flash: 100 years of traditional tattoos from the collection of Jonathan Shaw      $119.99
Tattoo flash is the designs on paper that the tattooist works from. This is not a collection of old skins.

 Demigods and Magicians: Three stories from the world of Percy Jackson and the Kane Chronicles by Rick Riordan       $24.00
Join Percy Jackson, Annabeth Chase and Carter and Sadie Kane as they do battle with an ancient Egyptian magician determined to become a god. Against impossible odds, the four demigods and magicians team up to prevent the apocalypse. This book contains the short stories 'The Son of Sobek', 'The Staff of Serapis' and 'The Crown of Ptolemy', together in one volume for the first time. And, read an exciting extract from The Sword of Summer, the first book in Rick Riordan's latest series, 'Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard'.

Vertigo by Joanna Walsh        $22.00
"In this series of interrogatory vignettes, Joanna Walsh looks so sharply at everyday situations and ideas that she finds chasms in what seemed like smooth and continuous situations, vertiginous spaces that open to reveal the authentic - often awkward and lonely - experiences that had been pressing at the surface of the banal from below." - Thomas
>> Interview by a man in a cap who would really like the author to be Irish

Pretentiousness: Why it matters by Dan Fox         $28.00
What is pretentiousness? Why do we despise it? And more controversially, why is it vital to a thriving culture? 
"Pretentiousness: Why it matters is more than a smartly counterintuitive encomium: it’s a lucid and impassioned defence of thinking, creating and, ultimately, living in a world increasingly dominated by the massed forces of social and intellectual conservatism. I totally loved the book."— Tom McCarthy, author of Satin Island
>> Dan Fox on pretentiousness.

 A Year in my Real Food Kitchen by Emma Galloway        $44.99
It is easy to forget that food is seasonal. In-season fruits and vegetables, grown and picked where they will be eaten, taste a million times sweeter and juicier. This book is both a celebration of real ingredients and a guide to eating the best, the healthiest and the tastiest food - just as nature intended. Beautifully presented. 

 As the Verb Tenses by Lynley Edmeades       $25.00
Vivid details of childhood memory, surreal juxtapositions of life in the contemporary West, wry observations of a temporary expatriate, the deeply lodged pain of historical and personal loss.
"What a fine reminder this collection is, of how language is what memory is played on, and gives the moment its flair, its resonance, its abiding form. I admire As the Verb Tenses for how the past and the present so vividly ring in lines of such clarity and precision and deft witty assessing. As wine buffs like to put it, I was held by its immediate impact, as much as by its maturity and depth." - Vincent OSullivan

3,2,1... Draw! by Serge Bloch       $23.00
Create a family of forks, build a car from a matchbox and decide who – or what! – is lurking in an asparagus forest with this activity book that invites creators young and old to reimagine more than fifty everyday items all around us and bring them to life with the stroke of a pen. 
>> Silly is good!

 Women of the Catlins: Life in the deep south edited by Diana Noonan, photographs by Cris Antona        $49.99
Noonan and Antona collaborate to capture the thoughts and feelings of 26 women from this remote, little-known Catlins region of New Zealand - an area is as mysterious today as it ever was.
>> At the edge of the world...

The Bricks That Built the Houses by Kate Tempest      $29.99
Young Londoners Becky, Harry and Leon are leaving town in a fourth-hand Ford Cortina with a suitcase full of money. They are running from jealous boyfriends, dead-end jobs, violent maniacs and disgruntled drug dealers, in the hope of escaping the restless tedium of life in south-east London - the place they have always called home. As the story moves back in time, to before they had to leave, we see them torn between confidence and self-loathing, between loneliness and desire, between desperate ambition and the terrifying prospect of getting nothing done.
"Powerful and merciful." - Ali Smith
>> Tempest came to prominence as a poet and rapper.

The Middle Eastern Vegetarian Cookbook by Salma Hage      $55.00
Traditionally, the Middle Eastern diet consisted largely of vegetables, fruits, herbs, spices, pulses, grains and legumes. Hage simplifies this fast becoming popular cuisine with easily achievable recipes, many with vegan and gluten-free options. Drawing inspiration from ancient and prized Phoenician ingredients, from grassy olive oil to fresh figs and rich dates, this book offers an array of delicious breakfasts and drinks, mezze and salads, vegetables and pulses, grains and desserts. Yum.

Dear Life: On caring for the elderly by Karen Hitchcock        $26.00
"The elderly, the frail are our society. They are our parents and grandparents, our carers and neighbours, and they are every one of us in the not-too-distant future. They are not a growing cost to be managed or a burden to be shifted or a horror to be hidden away, but people whose needs require us to change." Hitchcock looks at end-of-life decisions and over-treatment, frailty and dementia, and argues against the creeping tendency to see the elderly as a 'burden' - difficult, hopeless, expensive and homogenous.

The Outrun by Amy Liptrot      $39.99
When Amy Liptrot returns to Orkney after more than a decade away, she is drawn back to the Outrun on the sheep farm where she grew up. Approaching the land that was once home, memories of her childhood merge with the recent events that have set her on this journey. Amy was shaped by the cycle of the seasons, birth and death on the farm, and her father's mental illness, which were as much a part of her childhood as the wild, carefree existence on Orkney. But as she grew up, she longed to leave this remote life. She moved to London and found herself in a hedonistic cycle. Unable to control her drinking, alcohol gradually took over. Now thirty, she finds herself washed up back home on Orkney, standing unstable at the cliff edge, trying to come to terms with what happened to her in London. Spending early mornings swimming in the bracingly cold sea, the days tracking Orkney's wildlife - puffins nesting on sea stacks, arctic terns swooping close enough to feel their wings - and nights searching the sky for the Merry Dancers, Amy slowly makes the journey towards recovery from addiction.

Into the World by Ted Dawe       $29.99
The eagerly anticipated sequel to the prize-winning Into the River, tracing Devon's experiences after his expulsion from school and into a world where loyalty and freedom are tested and love and security seem like commodities.

African Textiles: Colour and creativity across a continent by John Gillow     $59.99
 Over 570 spectacular colour photographs the traditional, handcrafted, indigenous textiles of the whole continent, outlining the vast array of techniques used as well as the different types of loom, materials and dyes.

This is Where the World Ends by Amy Zhang       $23.00
"This  is the story of Janie and Micah, best friends since forever, as long as no one knows. Micah’s world is disrupted and his secret friendship unearthed when Janie Vivian disappears. Janie Vivian is a girl living on the edge, artistic, temperamental, fiercely unforgiving and passionately interesting. How could Micah not be friends with her no matter what? And be head-over-heels in love with her – though she doesn’t know. While we get inside the head of Janie in this novel, it is the story of Micah that I found the more interesting – he’s an outsider, uncertain, the more complex of the two characters. He’s fiercely loyal yet, despite everything that happens, able to forgive and accept Janie for who she is and finally for what she has done, wrong or right. Zhang tells this tale well, building to an unstoppable crescendo where Micah will have to see and accept the truth about Janie Vivian." - Stella

The Morning They Came for Us: Dispatches from Syria by Janine di Giovanni        $29.99
An unflinching account of a nation on the brink of disintegration.

Can I Build Another Me? by Shinsuke Yoshitake        $22.00
Can I Build Another Me? follows a child's hilarious, wildly inventive train of thought as he decides to make a clone of himself - and starts to ponder what makes him Him. Is it the scar on his knee or his sticky palms? Is it his love of acorns or the way he winks? The more he thinks about it, the more complicated it becomes.

Uprooted: On the trail of the Green Man by Nina Lyon        $36.99
Who, or what, is the Green Man, and why is this medieval image so present in our precarious modern times? An encounter with the Green Man at an ancient Herefordshire church in the wake of catastrophic weather leads Nina Lyon into an exploration of how the foliate heads of Norman stonemasons have evolved into today's cult symbols. The Green Man's association with the pantheistic beliefs of Celtic Christianity and with contemporary neo-paganism, with the shamanic traditions of the Anglo-Saxons and as a figurehead for ecological movements sees various paths crossing into a picture that reveals the hidden meanings of twenty-first-century Britain.

This Paper Boat by Gregory Kan       $25.00
Using written fragments of Iris Wilkinson (aka Robin Hyde), his parents, and their parents, while examining the public and private rituals of institutions ranging from the military to the medical, and of communities, families and individuals, the poet stumbles again and again across irreparable fractures in identity and material, time and space, in a world driven by its incompleteness and constructability towards hope and forgiveness.

  The Sellout by Paul Beatty        $27.99
Born in the 'agrarian ghetto' of Dickens - on the southern outskirts of Los Angeles - the narrator of The Sellout is raised by a single father, a controversial sociologist, and spends his childhood as the subject in racially charged psychological studies. Led to believe his father's pioneering work will result in a memoir that will solve his family's financial woes, he is shocked to discover, when his father is killed in a police shoot-out, that there never was a memoir. All that's left is a bill for a drive-through funeral. Fuelled by this deceit and the general disrepair of his hometown, the narrator sets out to right another wrong: Dickens has literally been removed from the map to save California from embarrassment.
"Powered by a wicked wit, with characters who speak a pop-philosopher patois, this is a funny and daring novel that subverts harmful cultural assumptions. The most lacerating American satire in years." - Guardian

Drinking and Driving in Chechnya by Peter Gonda        $35.00
Leonid, a hard-luck lorry driver who lives with his raving, war-veteran father in Moscow and ferries less-than-legit shipments of goods all over Russia for his Mafiya bosses, has a single dream: to leave behind the country of his birth, for which he feels nothing but disdain, and immigrate to the United States. It is the mid-1990s, and Russia has only just been "liberated", though precisely what that concept denotes in the post-Soviet world depends on whom you ask - and on who benefits most. However, Leonid knows in his heart of hearts that In America, his happiness will be guaranteed. During a haul to the Caucasus with a cargo of illicit vodka intended for parched soldiers on the front line of the war on Chechnya, Leonid and his sidekick Spasska take a wrong turn and wind up in the centre of Grozny, at the height of one of the cruellest bombardments of the twentieth century. What follows will shock Leonid into a confrontation with the reality that has always played out just beyond his averted gaze, and even his well-honed cynicism and survival instincts will be tested.

Rushing for Gold: Life and commerce on the goldfields of New Zealand and Australia edited by Lloyd Carpenter and Lyndon Fraser     $45.00
Treats the Victorian and Otago gold rushes, particularly, as a single phenomenon. 

 The Latecomer by Dimitri Verhulst       $27.99
 Desire Cordier - mild-mannered former librarian, put-upon husband, lover of boules - is losing his mind. Or is he? Happily tucked away in the Winterlight Home for the Elderly, Desire is looking forward to a quiet retirement with the other forgetful residents, safe in the knowledge that no one knows he's faking his memory loss. And as if there weren't reasons enough to opt out of the modern world, it would be worth it just to see Rosa Rozendaal again - the love of Desire's youth, the one who got away. But dementia isn't all fun and games. There's a former war criminal hiding out in the home; once-beautiful Rosa might be too far gone to return Desire's ardour; and our hero soon begins to suspect he might not be the only one in Winterlight who's acting a part...

The Senility of Vladimir P. by Michael Honig      $32.99
A vodka-soaked tragicomedy of bribes, backhanders and a certain ex-president of Russia going catastrophically awry. Former Russian president, Vladimir P, is going senile, marooned in a world of memories from his years in power. To get him out of the way, he has been exiled to his luxury dacha, where he is served by a coterie of bickering house staff. Only Sheremetev, the guileless nurse charged with Vladimir's round-the-clock care, is unaware that everyone else is busily using every means at their disposal to skim money from their employer's inexhaustible riches.

Daffodil: Biography of a flower by Helen O'Neill       $39.99
Inspiration of poets, treasure-trove to scientists and symbol of everything from unrequited love, rebirth, eternal life and misfortune.
>> Hmm...

 Did You Take the B from My _ook? by Beck and Matt Stanton      $23.00
Well? Someone sneezed and all the Bs got blown out of the book! 

 Twenty Questions for Gloria by Martyn Bedford      $18.99
Gloria is tired of her ordinary life. She barely recognizes the free-spirited girl she used to be in the unadventurous teenager she has become. So when a mysterious boy bent on breaking the rules strolls into her classroom, Gloria is ready to fall under his spell. Uman is funny, confident and smart. He does whatever he likes and doesn't care what anyone thinks of him. The only people for him are the mad ones, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing but burn, burn, burn. He is everything Gloria wishes to be. He can whisk her away from the life she loathes and show her a more daring, more exciting one, in which the only limits are the boundaries of her own boldness. But Uman in not all he seems and by the time she learns the truth about him, she is a long way from home and everyone wants to know, Where's Gloria?

First Day of the Somme: The complete account of Britain's worst-ever military disaster by Andrew Macdonald        $39.99
It took several million bullets and roughly half an hour to destroy General Sir Douglas Haig's grand plans for the first day of the Somme, 1 July 1916. By day's end 19,240 British soldiers were dead, crumpled khaki bundles scattered across pasture studded with the scarlet of poppies and smouldering shell holes. A further 35,493 were wounded.

 The Map of Bones ('Fire Sermon' #2) by Francesca Haig       $34.99
 The Omega resistance has been brutally attacked, its members dead or in hiding. The Alpha Council's plan for permanently containing the Omegas has begun. But all is not entirely lost: the Council's seer, The Confessor, is dead, killed by her twin's sacrifice. Cass is left haunted by visions of the past, while her brother Zach's cruelty and obsession pushes her to the edge, and threatens to destroy everything she hopes for. As the country moves closer to all-out civil war, Cass will learn that to change the future she will need to uncover the past. But nothing can prepare her for what she discovers: a deeply buried secret that raises the stakes higher than ever before. The sequel to the excellent The Fire Sermon.
 "Set in a vividly realised world of elite Alphas and their 'weaker' Omega twins, it holds a mirror up to our obsession with perfection." - Guardian

Anatomy of a Soldier by Harry Parker       $32.99
Captain Tom Barnes is leading British troops in a war zone. Two boys are growing up there, sharing a prized bicycle and flying kites, before finding themselves separated once the soldiers appear in their countryside. On all sides of this conflict, people are about to be caught up in the violence, from the man who trains one boy to fight the infidel invaders to Barnes's family waiting for him to return home. We see them not as they see themselves, but as all the objects surrounding them do: shoes and boots, a helmet, a trove of dollars, a drone, that bike, weaponry, a bag of fertilizer, a medal, a beer glass, a snowflake, dog tags, an exploding IED and the medical implements that are subsequently employed.

The Heart Tastes Bitter by Victor del Arbol       $37.00
Eduardo Quintana is a broken man. The tragedy that cost him the lives of his family is a wound he daily tears open afresh. The once-renowned painter wallows in grief, subsisting on alcohol and drugs, eking out a living with whatever painting commissions he can get. But when he is approached by a mysterious woman who wants him to paint a portrait of the man who killer her son, he soon becomes entangled in a web of deceit in which no one, and nothing, is as they seem. With each brushstroke, Eduardo opens doors that were meant to have stayed shut - doors that, once opened, can never be closed.

Drawing Blood by Molly Crabapple         $55.00
Using both words and artwork to shed light on the darker corners of American empire, Crabapple has become one of the most original and galvanizing voices on the cultural stage.
>> She talks, too!

The Wicked Boy: The mystery of a Victorian child murderer by Kate Summerscale      $29.99
Another interesting case study from the author of The Suspicions of Mr Whicher. Early in the morning of Monday 8 July 1895, thirteen-year-old Robert Coombes and his twelve-year-old brother Nattie set out from their small, yellow-brick terraced house in East London to watch a cricket match at Lord's. Their father had gone to sea the previous Friday, the boys told their neighbours, and their mother was visiting her family in Liverpool. Over the next ten days Robert and Nattie spent extravagantly, pawning their parents' valuables to fund trips to the theatre and the seaside. But as the sun beat down on the Coombes house, a strange smell began to emanate from the building. When the police were finally called to investigate, the discovery they made sent the press into a frenzy of horror and alarm, and Robert and Nattie were swept up in a criminal trial that echoed the outrageous plots of the 'penny dreadful' novels that Robert loved to read.

A Whakapapa of Tradition: 100 years of Ngati Porou carving, 1830-1930 by Ngarino Ellis and Natalie Robertson       $69.99
Beginning around 1830, three dominant art traditions - war canoes, decorated storehouses and chiefly houses - declined and were replaced by whare karakia (churches), whare whakairo (decorated meeting houses) and wharekai (dining halls).

When We Collided by Emily Lord      $18.99
Can you fall in love when you're falling apart? For fans of John Green.

Solaris by Stanislaw Lem        $23.00
A new edition of one of the most stunningly interesting science fiction novels ever written. A psychologist, Kelvin, is sent to a station on the ocean-covered planet Solaris to determine whether to terminate the mission because of lack of progress and a high rate of insanity. The station is beset by strange occurrences and appearances, including, eventually, the presence of Kelvin’s dead wife. As the scientists futilely attempt to observe the planet, the sentient planet is seemingly probing their psyches, giving form to their fears and desires. Ultimately, no communication is possible: all interaction with the Other is nothing but reflection, all observation reveals nothing but the observer.
"Containing passages of weird beauty and compelling philosophical speculation, this science fiction novel makes provocative points about the insularity of our (largely illusionary) realities and the impossibility of experiencing anything beyond ourselves." - Thomas
>> Andrei Tarkovsky's wonderful 1972 film can be seen here (but the book is even better).

Let's Play! by Herve Tullet       $24.99
 Join a yellow dot on an adventure of colour and movement, surprise and imagination.