New books to hit the spot


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2 May 2014

 
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/770561-MyHeartisLaughingDani2-9781877579516
My Heart is Laughing by Rose Lagercrantz and Eva Eriksson   $19.99
Dani is always happy (except when she's not).
"A delightful story about being sad, being happy, best friends and hopefulness. Another adorable book from the author and illustrator of My Happy Life." - Stella 
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/777605-LandscapewithSolitaryFigure-9781775535881
Landscape With Solitary Figure by Shonagh Koea   $29.99
A finely etched novel about the transporting power of the imagination, about overcoming your past, and about the beauty of a solitary life.
Koea's territory is "the contrast between domestic misery and various forms of withdrawal or escape." - The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature

http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/782750-AGodinEveryStone-9781408847213
A God in Every Stone by Kamila Shamsie   $36.99
The theme of archaeology links the Persian, the Ottoman and the British empires in this accomplished novel.
"It is a rare writer who can transport her readers in just a few pages to another place and time. Shamsie’s writing is so evocative that she does just that. The novel brilliantly illustrates how war tests loyalties and destroys empires." - Independent
"Shamsie combines the epic and intimate, and crafts characters with such poignancy that even hearts of stone would melt." - Guardian
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/777509-CarnivalSky-9781775535829
Carnival Sky by Owen Marshall    $38.00
A deeply observed novel about how an approaching death puts life on hold.
"New Zealand's best prose writer." - Vincent O'Sullivan

http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/787088-LandscapesoftheMetropolisofDeathReflectionsonMemoryandImagination-9780718197025
Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death: Reflections on memory and imagination by Otto Dov Kulka   $29.99
"This is a grave, poetic and horrifying account of the Holocaust which does not so much revisit the Auschwitz of the past, but the Auschwitz of Kulka's inner world." - Independent
"It is the strange and shocking paradox, this child's world constructed in such proximity to death, that makes the book so startling and so beautiful." -Sunday Times
"This is the product of a master historian: ironic, probing, present in the past, able to connect the particular with the cosmic. His memory is in the service of deep historical understanding." - Guardian
"A poetic masterpiece unlike anything else written on the subject." - Simon Schama
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/778790-Morito-9780091947309

Morito by Samuel and Samantha Clark   $65.00
The cookbook from the famous Spanish/North African tapas and mezze bar in London. Perfect for those who want to eat informally but with enthusiasm.
"Like being transported straight to a tapas bar in Spain." - Time Out
Visit the restaurant.

http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/778861-TheSelf-Portrait-ACulturalHistory-9780500239100
The Self-Portrait: A cultural history by James Hall    $49.99
"There is never a dull passage in this book: the detail is crisply imparted; the content richly arcane at times, but more usually profoundly human; the ideas come freshly coined. Hall manages to retain the intellectual high ground while writing with verve and enthusiasm." - The Guardian

http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/798899-VisionsofScienceBooksandReadersattheDawnoftheVictorianAge-9780199675265
Visions of Science: Books and readers at the dawn of the Victorian age by James A Secord   $49.99
Secord identifies the 1820s and 1830s as one of history's watersheds, and shows how developments in book production and distribution helped to effect an intellectual revolution.  
"A wonderfully lucid account of a complex and often misunderstood era that poses important questions about the way we understand both science and history." - Guardian
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/783141-LostforWords-9780330454223
Lost for Words by Edward St Aubyn   $35.00
St Aubyn points his acid-dipped pen at the literary awards circus. Who will be burned?
"The Booker 2011 is of no more interest to me than the world heavyweight championship, which I'm not going to win either." - Edward St Aubyn, 2011, on not being shortlisted.
"Perhaps the most brilliant English novelist of his generation." - Alan Hollinghurst
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/774967-WarWhatisitgoodforTheroleofconflictincivilisationfromprimatestorobots-9781781252963
War: What is it Good For? The role of conflict in civilisation, from primates to robots by Ian Morris   $39.99
A profoundly uncomfortable but provocative argument that “productive war” promotes greater safety, a decrease in violence and economic growth. You want to disagree.
"One of the most fascinating and thought-provoking histories I have read for years." - Telegraph

http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/781347-HumanDignity-9780674284173
Human Dignity by George Kateb   $45.00
Dignity is often referred to as life's core value in legal, political and ethical discussions, but what is it?
"One of the more interesting contributions on the subject of human worth in the last few decades." - Remy Debes
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/767735-Back-to-FrontBob-9781775431831
Back-to-Front Bob by Belinda Ellis   $19.99
"Bob LOVED words. Big words, small words ...but especially words that are the same when he read them from front to back, and back to front!" Great fun.
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/781272-LoveandTreasure-9781444763102
Love and Treasure by Ayelet Waldman   $38.00
"At times a document, a thriller, a love story, a search - telescoping time backwards and forwards to vividly depict a story found in the preludes and then the after-effects of the Holocaust. Waldman gives us remarkable characters in a time of complex and surprising politics." - Michael Ondaatje
"Ayelet Waldman is not afraid to create characters for whom we feel an urgency of emotion, and she does not resolve what is unresolvable in this ambitious, absorbing and poignantly moving work of fiction." - Joyce Carol Oates

http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/184090-SculptureToday-9780714857633
Sculpture Today by Judith Collins   $85.00
Authoritative. Accessible.
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/778799-ShiptonandTilman-9780099505082
Shipton & Tilman: The great decade of Himalayan exploration by Jim Perrin   $29.99
A remarkable exploring partnership of the 1930s. "The journeys of discovery undertaken by this pair of venturesome ragamuffins are unparallelled in the annals of mountain exploration." - Perrin
"Required reading." - The Alpine Journal
"Witty, literate, erudite and committed." - Geographical Magazine 

http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/778804-TheTriggerHuntingtheAssassinWhoBroughttheWorldtoWar-9780701187941
The Trigger: Hunting the assassin who brought the world to war by Tim Butcher   $39.99
On a summer morning in Sarajevo a hundred years ago, a teenage assassin fired not just the opening shots of the First World War but the starting gun for modern history. Who was Gavrilo Princip? What were his motivations?
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/783120-Brilliant-9781447248804
Brilliant by Roddy Doyle   $19.99
After his business fails, Uncle Ben isn't his usual self: the 'Black Dog' is on his back. Gloria and Raymond set off on a midnight quest to hunt down the Black Dog and get it to leave Uncle Ben alone.
"To call Brilliant brilliant is an understatement." - Sydney Arts Guide

http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/783143-TheTruthAbouttheHarryQuebertAffair-9780857053107
The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair by Joel Dicker $34.99
This eurothriller "may be the cleverest, creepiest book you'll read this year." - Telegraph

http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/782715-1001BikesToDreamofRidingBeforeYouDie-9781844037636
1001 Bikes to Dream of Riding Before You Die by Chris Boardman   $39.99
80 years in the evolution of our external skeletons.
[Are these bikes safe? If you're worried about the dying that follows the riding, don't be: apparently it's all only a dream!]
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/780528-TheInfatuations-9780241958490
The Infatuations by Javier Marias   $35.00
Reimagines the murder novel as a metaphysical enquiry, addressing questions of life, death, love and morality.
"Mesmerising, chillingly clear and hypnotically eerie. At this very fine and disturbing novel's core is a compelling meditation on love in all its ramifications." - Herald
Now back in stock!
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/781271-InheritanceHowOurGenesChangeOurLivesandOurLivesChangeOurGenes-9781444763225
Inheritance: How our genes change our lives and our lives change our genes by Sharon Moalem   $39.99
Can we make sensible decisions with our knew knowledge of genetic malleability?
Watch the book trailer.

http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/778759-SlavesofSocorroBrotherband4-9781742759340
Slaves of Socorro by John Flanagan   $19.99
Number 4 in the fantastically exciting 'Brotherband' series!

http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/782962-TheWolfinWinter-9781444755336
The Wolf in Winter by John Connolly   $38.00
Another chilling case for the private investigator Charlie Parker.
"Connolly is at his very best here: angry, polemical and compassionate. The Wolf in Winter is a brilliant performance from one of our finest writers." - Declan Hughes, The Irish Times