An intensely personal novel from the author of The Boy in Striped Pyjamas. Odran Yates enters Clonliffe Seminary after his mother informs him that he has a vocation to the priesthood. Forty years later, revelations have shattered the Irish people's faith in the church. Odran has seen friends stand trial, colleagues jailed, the lives of young parishioners destroyed, and has become nervous of venturing out in public for fear of disapproving stares and insulting remarks. When a family tragedy opens wounds from his past, he is forced to confront the demons that have raged within a once respected institution and recognise his own complicity in their propagation.
Mrs Featherby had been having pleasant dreams until she woke to discover the front of her house had vanished overnight. On a seemingly normal morning in London, a group of people all lose something dear to them, something dear but peculiar: the front of their house, their piano keys, their sense of direction, their place of work. Meanwhile, Jake, a young boy whose father brings him to London following his mother's sudden death in an earthquake, finds himself strangely attracted to other people's lost things. But little does he realise that his most valuable possession, his relationship with his dad, is slipping away from him.
At once a memoir and an essay on the nature of memory, this book traces Wedde's life from his early childhood in post-war Blenheim to the remote regions of Bangladesh, from an English boarding school to 1960s Auckland, from Jordan during the civil war of 1969-70 to family homes full of children. Haunted by the ghosts of his restless German and Scottish great grandparents, and of his wandering parents, Wedde is always looking over his shoulder as he writes. His companion throughout is his twin brother Dave, who shared their first home - their mother Linda's womb.
Human beings are the only species to have evolved the trait of emotional crying. We weep at tragedies in our lives and in those of others - remarkably even when they are fictional characters in film, opera, music, novels, and theatre. Why have we developed art forms - most powerfully, music - which move us to sadness and tears?
A stunningly beautiful curated survey of the animal kingdom in large format, with modern illustrations with all the appeal of chromolithographs from the golden age of natural history books. Approach with care: copies of this book sold to staff as soon as they came out of the carton!
Forty-six diverse, absorbing stories which reveal the often forgotten colour and vibrancy of our country's past. Who really did discover New Zealand? Who were the real villains at Parihaka? Have we written timid explorer Abel Tasman out of our history books? What became of the threat of Russian invasion in the 1880s? Why did so many Kiwi lads die in the deep grey mud at Passendale? Why don't we hear much about the massacre of Japanese prisoners-of-war in the Wairarapa prison camp?
An important book that reviews, critiques and re-imagines the government’s Christchurch Central Recovery Plan – or Blueprint – which continues to determine the post-earthquake planning of the centre of Christchurch. The recovery plan is used as a lens through which to explore multiple facets of disaster recovery and the opportunities inherent in such a situation.
"The best food reference work ever to appear in the English language. Read it and be dazzled." - Bee Wilson
A great American writer's confrontation with a great European critic. Karl Kraus: satirist. Controversialist. Forgotten voice of the early twentieth century. Jonathan Franzen: bestseller. Contrarian. One of the most prominent novelists working today. Recalling his student days, the author of The Corrections and Freedom recounts his discovery of Kraus and presents his own translations and annotations of the philosopher's most famous essays. Kraus brilliantly attacked the mass media and the dehumanizing machinery of technology and capitalism. A notoriously difficult writer, Kraus has met his match in Franzen: a popular novelist unafraid to voice unpopular opinions.
Most of us recognize that climate change is real, and yet we do nothing to stop it. What is this psychological mechanism that allows us to know something is true but act as if it is not?
An exploration of the different ways Maori and Pakeha 'fronted' one another - the zones of contact and encounter - across the nineteenth century. Beginning with a pre-1840 era marked by significant cooperation, Vincent O'Malley details the emergence of a more competitive and conflicted post-Treaty world.
"A stomach-turning and terrific novel. A brilliant and literal dissection of a marriage." - The Times
"Engrossingly depicts not only bodily appetite but the deepest emotional hunger pangs of being human. Compulsively readable." - Observer
"Daring, groundbreaking and original." - Irish Independent
Hendrick Beikirch (a.k.a. ECB) $79.99
ECB is a German painter working on vast-scale black and white, or grayscale murals in public spaces worldwide. This new book is a compilation of the artist's work, and provides insight of that work through photographs and interviews of his process and execution.
Sophie Hannah channels Agatha Christie in this enjoyable mystery attended to by the ever-fresh Hercule Poirot and his "little grey cells".
"Sophie's idea for a plot line was so compelling and her passion for my grandmother's work so strong, that we felt that the time was right for a new Christie to be written." - Mathew Prichard, Chairman of Agatha Christie Limited and grandson of Agatha Christie
If all the world's a stage then veteran New Zealand Herald reporter Alan Sayers has met most of the cast - from miscreants and murderers to hobos and heroes. His career as a ground-breaking photo journalist has led him to dive the depths for gold and scale the heights for survivors...
In a churchyard, villagers gather on the night when the ghosts of those who will die in the coming year are thought to be seen. Here, where the estuary leads out to the sea, superstitions still hold sway. Standing alone is the taxidermist's daughter. At seventeen, Constantia Gifford lives with her father in a decaying house: it is all that is left of Gifford's once world-famous museum of taxidermy. What is the secret that lies at the heart of Gifford House, hidden among the bell jars of her father's workshop?
Raised in Canada to Hungarian-Croatian parents, Klinec's quest for authentic recipes leads her to Iran where, hair discreetly covered and eyes modest, she is introduced to a local woman who will teach her the secrets of the Persian kitchen. Vahid is suspicious of the strange foreigner who turns up in his mother’s kitchen; he is unused to seeing an independent woman. But a compelling attraction pulls them together and then pits them against harsh Iranian laws and customs.
It's been eight months since Mickey Bolitar witnessed the shocking, tragic death of his father. Eight months of lies, dark secrets and unanswered questions...
When Indonesia's Mount Tambora erupted in 1815, it unleashed the most destructive wave of extreme weather the world has witnessed in thousands of years. The volcano's massive sulfate dust cloud enveloped the Earth, cooling temperatures and disrupting major weather systems for more than three years.This book weaves the latest climate science with the social history of this frightening period to offer a cautionary tale about the potential tragic impacts of climate change in our own century.
Most people would do anything to get into the Magisterium and pass the Iron Trial. Not Callum Hunt. Call has been told his whole life that he should never trust a magician. And so he tries his best to do his worst - but fails at failing. Now he must enter the Magisterium. It's a place that's both sensational and sinister. And Call realizes it has dark ties to his past and a twisty path to his future. The Iron Trial is just the beginning. Call's biggest test is still to come...
This new series has been described as a darker, cooler 'Harry Potter'.
Studio jewellery dissolves the modern distinction between decorative and fine arts. The 60 pieces in this lively volume, held in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, were crested primarily from the early 1960s to the present day and show a fluid engagement with various traditions in jewellery-making.
Forget lists, passing tests and ticking boxes, the world outside the classroom can't be contained within the limits of any kind of curriculum - and it's all the better for it.
"Fun, not just functional. Make sure you have this book to hand." - Guardian
An astounding record of the first crossing of Antarctica in 1957/58, by the Trans-Antarctic Expedition, led by Sir Vivian 'Bunny' Fuchs (and including Lowe) - one of the twentieth century's great triumphs of exploration.
"A smart, iconoclastic portrait." - New Statesman
Wallander's back! Some cases aren't as cold as you'd think.
Confrontations between Japanese whalers and Sea Shepherd activists make for exciting news reports during the Australian summer. But the sensational headlines and dramatic footage - eco warriors pitted against the might of the Japanese state - fail to scratch the surface of the complex forces that drive each side's actions.
In this original new approach to telling the Greek story, David Stuttard weaves together the lives of fifty movers and shakers of the Greek world into a continuous, chronologically organized narrative, from the early tyrant rulers Peisistratus and Polycrates, through the stirrings of democracy under Cleisthenes to the rise of Macedon under Philip II and Alexander the Great and the eventual decline of the Greek world as Rome rose.
“Makkai’s book holds all of the elements of the perfect summer yarn: eccentric artists, a mysterious death, a locked attic door and a large estate that has secrets built into its walls. Think David Lodge meets Maggie Shipstead as Makkai’s suspenseful scene building and comic timing make The Hundred-Year House a captivating read.” - Minneapolis Star Tribune
This book will help you to learn the Spanish guitar faster. And other things.
From its origins in the seventh century, Islamic finance has sought to develop core ethical principles that are based in the foundations of Islam and Shari'a. By engaging critically with the complexities of international finance, it has evolved and adapted into a world emerging from the economic and moral aftermath of a global financial crisis. But with an increasing Western interest, is it able to remain true to the principles of its faith? Can it maintain its ideals of social justice? Or is Islamic finance guilty of the very dangers it seeks to avoid?
When Miss Lana makes an Accidental Bid at the Tupelo auction and winds up the mortified owner of an old inn, she doesn't realize there's a ghost in the fine print!
An excellent book examining innovations and inventiveness in current landscape architecture. The book features a variety of projects from around the world including: commercial properties, private residences and government and public buildings. Local environments have been considered by the designers, and have thus played a large role in the plant life, building materials, utilisation of space and topographical elements. Many of the landscape projects use sculpture, water features and unique materials.
At once a crime novel, a war novel and a historic romance, Perfidia unfolds in real time as two police officers, a Japanese-American forensic chemist and a young woman coerced into a cabal of Hollywood leftists work around the clock, while Los Angeles comports under nighttime blackouts, war fever and escalating racial tension spawned by the Pearl Harbor bombings.
Sixteen-year-old Avery Roe wants only to take her rightful place as the sea witch of Prince Island, making the charms that keep the island's whalers safe and prosperous at sea. But before she could learn how to control her power, her mother - the first Roe woman in centuries to turn her back on magic - steals Avery away from her grandmother.
In 1980, the McCloud family welcomes Trevor, their third child and the last to be born on Eilean Fior, a small island off the west coast of Scotland. Life there, on the eve of Trevor's birth, is grim: the population, once in the hundreds, now hovers around thirty, as most of the island's inhabitants have left for the mainland in search of an easier life. But the McClouds stubbornly maintain their guesthouse, despite their increasing trouble turning a profit and their children's lack of interest in taking over the family business.
A valuable history of breastfeeding activism.
Seventeen-year-old Alba is an aspiring comic-book artist, pastry enthusiast and eternal optimist. She thinks life in her tiny town is awesome (if predictable) and she never wants it to change. Unfortunately Alba's just finished Year 12 - so the only thing she can predict is that everything's going to change. Even so, Alba didn't see the end of the world coming. Apart from a questionable television psychic, no one did.
Iggy loves building too much to give it up. For any reason.
"French's latest novel, set among feuding schoolgirl cliques, combines intricate plotting and psychological depth." - Guardian
Originally consisting of a small group of imaginative artists who shared the same desire to create obscure, unique, and borderline demented artwork, Zerofriends has grown into an art and apparel brand whose creativity has gained worldwide recognition. This is due in large part to the collective artists uncompromising approach to their work and the completely DIY operation of the business that has sprouted from the collective passion of the artists involved.
