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27 March 2015


http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/861447?barcode=9780241185865&title=EttaandOttoandRussellandJames
Etta and Otto and Russell and James by Emma Hooper       $37.00
'I've gone. I've never seen the water, so I've gone there. I will try to remember to come back.' Etta's greatest unfulfilled wish, living in the rolling farmland of Saskatchewan, is to see the sea. And so, at the age of eighty-two, she gets up early one morning, takes a rifle, some chocolate and her best boots, and begins walking the 2,000 miles to the water. But Etta is starting to forget things. Her husband, Otto, remembers everything, and he loves her. Their neighbour Russell remembers too, but differently - and he still loves Etta as much as he did over fifty years ago, before she married Otto.
"The book succeeds brilliantly as a meditation on friendship and marriage, on bonds forged over decades." - Guardian        
"Incredibly moving, beautifully funny, luminous with wisdom. It is a book that restores one's faith even as it deepens the mystery." - Chris Cleave
>> Here is the author on a swing.
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/867334?barcode=9780714869209&title=Peru-TheCookbook
 Peru: The cookbook by Gaston Acurio     $70.00
The definitive Peruvian cookbook, featuring 500 traditional home cooking recipes from the country’s most acclaimed and popular chef, Gastón Acurio. One of the world’s most innovative and flavorful cuisines, Peruvian food has been heralded by chefs and media around the world as the "next big thing."
 "Gaston Acurio is Peru's answer to Jamie Oliver and Anthony Bourdain." - Wall Street Journal

http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/853881?barcode=9780349006239&title=OnWritersandWriting
 On Writers and Writing by Margaret Atwood       $28.00
What is the role of the writer? Prophet? High Priest of Art? Court Jester? Or witness to the real world? Looking back on her own childhood and the development of her writing career, Margaret Atwood examines the metaphors which writers of fiction and poetry have used to explain - or excuse - their activities, looking at what costumes they have seen fit to assume, what roles they have chosen to play. This insightful book was first published in 2002 as Negotiating With the Dead
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/877104?barcode=9780473302191&title=LivinginParadox%3AAHistoryofUrbanDesignAcrossKainga%2CTownsandCitiesinNewZealand
Living in Paradox: A history of urban design across kainga, towns and cities in New Zealand by Garth Falconer        $75.00
An important, far-reaching and provocative survey of town planning (and the lack of it), looking at the impact of urban design on populations and the environment. There are alternatives to accepting soaring house prices, congested traffic, a bland and illegible urban landscape, growing gaps between different peoples, and hopelessly complicated urban planning regulations!

http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/842589?barcode=9780241966556&title=TheStranglerVine
The Strangler Vine by M.J. Carter     $30.00
In the days of the Raj, a young lieutenant and an eccentric scholar set off from Calcutta to solve the disappearance of a novelist and India expert and get a bit too close to the Thuggee cult. Well written and thoroughly researched.
"The best unputdownable novel I've read this year so far." - Jan
"A witty and entrancing historical thriller." - Guardian
>> Interview.
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/843024-TalesoftheMarvellousandNewsoftheStrange-9780141395036
 Tales of the Marvellous and News of the Strange       $59.99
Some of these stories, dating from at least 1000 years ago, found their way into the Arabian Nights, but each is unique and wonderful.
"Endlessly diverting and inventive, giving a unique insight into a now-lost elegant, courtly and tolerant Arab world." - William Dalrymple, Sunday Times 
"Offers a gateway to a different world of language and ideas, florid, wildly descriptive and are a powerful reminder of the human need for story. Irresistible." - Independent
"An astonishment. A profound oddity." - Scotland on Sunday

http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/814881-PeopleoftheTwenty-FirstCentury-9780714867151
People of the Twenty-First Century by Hans Eijkelboom      $49.99
A monumental 'anti-sartorial' survey clothing from the streets of the world (Amsterdam, Paris, New York, Shanghai), nullifying the usual distinction between individual and mass choice. Interesting!
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/866519-LoveFoodAtGransTable-9780473307264
 Love and Food at Gran's Table by Natalie Oldfield      $49.99
60 New Zealand grandmothers, born all over the world, share the recipes that make their tables the centre of their families' lives. This book demonstrates the rich diversity of backgrounds and cuisines that comprise New Zealand's culinary texture. The recipes are very approachable, and the grans' biographies are both interesting and heart-warming. 
>> Grans in the kitchen.
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/865840-ArabJazz-9780857053145
Arab Jazz by Karim Miské         $37.99
 Kosher sushi, kebabs, a second-hand bookshop, a bar: the peace of a cosmopolitan neighbourhood in Paris's19th arrondissement in Paris is shattered when Ahmed Taroudant's daydreams are interrupted by the blood dripping from his upstairs neighbour's brutally mutilated corpse. The violent murder of Laura Vignole, and the pork joint placed next to her, set imaginations ablaze across the neighborhood, and Ahmed finds himself the prime suspect. However, detectives Rachel Kupferstein and Jean Hamelot are not short of leads... 
"Intelligent and gripping." - Tariq Ali
"Brilliant." - The Guardian
"'Exciting, informative, stimulating, and a little frightening." - The Times
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/856931-EnchantedForestAnInkyQuestColouringBook-9781780674872
The Enchanted Forest by Johanna Basford       $26.00
This stunningly beautiful colouring book takes you on a inky quest through an enchanted forest to discover what lies in the castle at its heart. As well as drawings to complete, colour and embellish, there are hidden objects to be found along the way including wild flowers, animals and birds, gems, lanterns, keys and treasure chests. Beginning at the entrance to the forest, the journey progresses through woodland, rocky caves and tree-lined mazes, over streams and a waterfall, across the trees tops, to finally reach the castle.
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/861666-Theft-9780571323197
A Theft: My con man by Hanif Kureishi      $14.00
Nearing sixty and needing to plan for his and his children's future, Kureishi followed his accountant's advice and invested in a property scheme - only to find out that the accountant was a fraudster and his entire life savings had vanished. In this thought-provoking account of his conman, Kureishi uses this theft as a way of exploring some of the contradictions and dilemmas of our lives: the true value of money; the role of deception in art; how you can love and hate simultaneously; why the financial world seems to revolve around deceit; and what we might recover from those who have stolen from us.
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/862190-FourBooks-9781922182487
The Four Books by Yan Lianke       $37.00
"A searing, allegorical view of Chinese society during some of the darkest moments of the Mao era. Yan cements his reputation as one of China's most mportant - and certainly most fearless - living writers." - Kirkus Reviews
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/859081?barcode=9780500517840&title=StreetCraft-Yarnbombing%2CGuerrillaGardening%2CLightTagging%2CLaceGraffitiandMore
Street Craft: Yarnbombing, guerrilla gardening, light tagging, lace graffiti and more by Riikka Kuittinen        $39.99
In the past decade, street art has transformed from a practice carried out by anonymous creators, seen by some as vandalism, into a commercial enterprise and a respectable part of the international art market. A new generation of artists is creating uncommissioned, site-specific works employing a range of art and craft techniques, including weaving, crocheting, sculpting, painting, gardening, light installation, and more. But has the market defused the subversive power of street craft?
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/863548-IMetLuckyPeopleTheStoryOfTheRomaniGypsies-9780241954706
 I Met Lucky People: The story of the Romani Gypsies by Yaron Matras      $35.00
A wonderfully comprehensive and sympathetic account of Gypsy culture and history. 
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/858032?barcode=9780241970348&title=DroneTheory
 Drone Theory by Gregoire Chamayou       $28.00
A rigorous polemic against the increasing use of robot warfare around the world. Drawing on philosophical debate, moral lessons from Greek mythology and transcripts of conversations between drone operators, Drone Theory re-evaluates the socio-political impact of drone warfare on the world - and its people.


http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/855036?barcode=9780571308019&title=NothingIsTrueandEverythingIsPossible%3AAdventuresinModernRussia
 Nothing is True and Everything is Possible: Adventures in modern Russia by Peter Pomerantsev        $37.00
Fascinating, incisive reportage from a land "where gangsters become artists, gold‑diggers quote Pushkin and Hell's Angels hallucinate themselves as saints".
>> The author speaks and reads and occasionally scratches his head

http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/870504-FindMeANovel-9780374154714
Find Me by Laura van den Berg        $39.99
An ebola-like pandemic is the catalyst for a meditation on memory and our ability to hide the truth from ourselves.
"The best young writer in America." - Salon
"The novel lingers and aches in the memory." - Guardian
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/864147-DeptofSpeculation-9781847088741
Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill      $24.99
Comprised of short paragraphs, observations, quotes and quips - poignant, skittish, acute or throwaway - this book contains a familiar domestic narrative, albeit one related at such speed (first uphill then down with the accelerator fully depressed) that it hardly adheres to the corners. The narrator, a writer and would-be ‘art monster’, unforeseeably marries and has a child (as tends frequently to happen to would-be art monsters), providing a husband and daughter to vie with writing for priority in her life... This excellent book was short-listed for the 2015 Folio Prize.
We still have a couple of copies of the beautiful hardback edition.

http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/863487?barcode=9781922182739&title=AnotherGreatDayAtSea
Another Great Day at Sea by Geoff Dyer       $37.00
What's it like to be a writer-in-residence aboard an aircraft carrier? What is it like to be a sloppily individualistic Englishman pitched into the deeply American world of the US Navy? Dyer records the daily life on board the USS George H.W. Bush, revealing it to be a prism for understanding a society where discipline and conformity, dedication and optimism, become forms of self-expression.
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/862141?barcode=9780670078684&title=GreatestGatsby%3AAVisualBookofGrammar
The Greatest Gatsby: A visual book of grammar by Tohby Riddle       $29.99
An enjoyable and quietly witty guide to the work words do in teams, from the wonderful Tohby Riddle.



http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/862176?barcode=9780670078660&title=Airmail-WomenofLetters
 Airmail: Taking 'Women of Letters' to the world curate by Michaela McGuire and Marieke Hardy      $39.99
The Women of Letters literary salon has a well-known passion for correspondence. Here they have collected letters from literati and celebrities written all over the world.
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/862145-TheStringsofMurder-9780718179823
The Strings of Murder by Oscar de Muriel       $35.00
Edinburgh, 1888. A violinist is murdered in his home. The dead virtuoso's maid swears she heard three musicians playing in the night. But with only one body in the locked practice room - and no way in or out - the case makes no sense. Fearing a national panic over another Ripper, Scotland Yard sends Inspector Ian Frey to investigate under the cover of a fake department specializing in the occult. However, Frey's new boss, Detective 'Nine-Nails' McGray, actually believes in such supernatural nonsense...


http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/856945?barcode=9781447280804&title=Hausfrau
Hausfrau by Jill Alexander Essbaum       $35.00
A housewife with agency issues is mangled by a series of affairs in this modern-day Madame Bovary
>> This video of the US jacket design process is rather good
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/863481-ClassicalLiterature-9780141977355
 Classical Literature by Richard Jenkyns     $19.99
What makes Greek and Roman literature great? How has classical literature influenced Western culture? What did Greek and Roman authors learn from each other? You will want to read a lot more Classical literature once you have read this book.
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/863484-ANZACsAnInsideViewOfNewZealandersAtGallipoli-9780143572336
The ANZACS: An inside view of New Zealanders at Gallipoli                        $45.00
Draws on the collections of the Auckland War Memorial Museum, including photographs taken by New Zealand soldiers, to give depth and poignancy to a dark period of our history.
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/864655-Clothbound-9781743362921
Clothbound by Julie Paterson     $75.00
An illustrated glimpse into the life of an artist whose fabric designs grace home furnishings the world over. Try not to drool onto the book.
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/863544?barcode=9780141009544&title=InventingtheIndividual
 Inventing the Individual: The origins of Western liberalism by Larry Siedentop        $35.00
The discovery of individuality, human freedom and potential in the early centuries CE displaced the family, the caste and the tribe as the core elements of social organisation and moral thinking.
"Magisterial, timeless, beautifully written. Siedentop has achieved something quite extraordinary. He has explained us to ourselves." - Spectator

http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/821391-SnailWhereareYou-9780714867991
 Snail, Where Are You? by Tomi Ungerer     $26.00
Ha! There so are many places a snail can hide!
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/864150-GoodbyeSweetheart-9781760111298
Goodbye Sweetheart by Marion Halligan        $37.00
When a successful lawyer, bon vivant, and loving husband and father has a heart attack and drowns in the local swimming pool, the dark secrets of his life start floating to the surface.
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/864642-GreatGardenDesignContemporaryInspirationforOutdoorSpaces-9780711235731
Great Garden Design: Contemporary inspiration for outdoor spaces by Ian Hodgson      $59.99
 The best garden designs of the last ten years from more than fifty top garden designers. It offers design solutions for every situation, every area, all tastes and budgets, and any size of garden.
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/864117?barcode=9781743317921&title=TheUmbrianSupperClub
The Umbrian Supper Club by Marlena de Blasi        $36.99
A small group of Umbrian women - sometimes with their men and, as often, without them - gather in an old stone house in the hills above Orvieto to cook, to sit down to a beautiful supper, to drink their beloved local wines. And to talk. During the gathering, the preparation, the cooking and the eating, they recount the memories and experiences of their gastronomic lives and, as much, of their more personal histories. De Blasi recounts four wonderful years of this.
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/864654-ZumboFiles-9781743364406
The Zumbo Files: Unlocking the secret recipes of a master patissier by Adriano Zumbo       $69.99
Fifty sweet recipes bearing Zumbo's trademark idiosyncratic stamp.

http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/864601-GirlintheDark-9781408858271
Girl in the Dark by Anna Lyndsey       $35.00
The author suddenly developed an extreme sensitivity to light. Consequently her life became very different in many (sometimes quite unexpected) ways. How did she cope?
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/863531?barcode=9780141978239&title=WeAreOurBrains%3A
 We Are Our Brains: From the womb to alzheimer's by Dick Swaab      $35.00
"Wide-ranging, fun and informative. As an ice-breaker at parties, it is unmatched." - Sunday Times
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/867845?barcode=9781925106503&title=DeadWake%3AtheLastCrossingoftheLusitania
 Dead Wake: The last crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson         $45.00
Racing towards Liverpool a hundred years ago, the Lusitania was hunted by Unterseeboot-20. This is a vivid recreation of the fateful day they met.
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/863526?barcode=9780702253393&title=RansackingParis
Ransacking Paris by Patti Miller        $37.00
Having grown up in the Australian outback, Miller suddenly finds herself in Paris for a year. Luckily, she falls in with Montaigne, Rousseau and de Beauvoir, who are both helpful guides and thoughtful companions.
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/864108-UseYourImagination-9780857633927
Use Your Imagination! (But be careful what you wish for) by Nicola O'Byrne       $19.99
Rabbit is bored. Wolf has the perfect solution. 'Why not write a story?' he says. Wolf teaches Rabbit how to construct a story, but Wolf is hungry and they disagree how the story should end...

http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/862135-SpiceIAm-9781921383595
Spice I Am: Home-style Thai recipes by Sujet Saenkham      $49.99
Learn how to make restaurant favourites such as stir-fried crispy pork belly with basil, roasted red duck curry with eggplant, tomato and pineapple and crispy prawn and lemongrass salad, as well as traditional classics like pad Thai, fishcakes and a massaman beef curry.

http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/863498-TouchTheScienceofHandHeartandMind-9780241184042
Touch: The science of hand, heart and mind by David Linden     $39.99
“Touch is not optional for human development. From consumer choice to sexual intercourse, from tool use to chronic pain to the process of healing, the genes, cells and neural circuits involved in the sense of touch have been crucial to creating our unique human experience.” - David Linden
"Engrossing." - Guardian
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/864614-Monster-9781408846964
Monster by Michael Rosen and Neal Layton       $19.99
When his pet human goes to school, Monster thinks she is trapped there against her will, and he sets out to rescue her!
"A delight." - Independent
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/864658?barcode=9781909342804&title=ShedDecor
Shed Décor: How to decorate and furnish your favourite garden room by Sally Coulthard        $59.99
The title is not an oxymoron! Your shed, no matter what you use it for, is ripe for an aesthetic all of its own.
If you liked Gill Heriz's A Woman's Shed, you will want to clutch this book.






20 March 2015


http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/869228?barcode=9780994104731&title=RichManRoad
Rich Man Road by Ann Glamunzina         $29.99
 A traumatised Dalmatian immigrant, Olga, arrives in New Zealand after WWII from the refugee camps of Egypt.  Her fraught relationship with her mother and the choices Olga makes isolate her from her family.  It is not until she meets the much younger and vulnerable Samoan immigrant, Pualele, that Olga finds someone who might understand her.
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/553698?barcode=9781846272721&title=Proust%27sOvercoat%3ATheTrueStoryofOneMan%27sPassionforAllThingsProust
Proust's Overcoat: The true story of one man's passion for all things Proust by Lorenza Foschini         $26.00
An obsessive bibliophile makes the acquaintance of Proust's brother and begins a decades-long accumulation of the writer's personal effects, culminating in the ratty otter-lined overcoat that Marcel spread over himself when he wrote. Fascinating.
"Proust's Overcoat is just my style." - Patti Smith
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/864603?barcode=9781781688045&title=AuschwitzReport
Auschwitz Report by Primo Levi and Leonardo de Benedetti      $24.00
While in a Russian-administered holding camp in Poland in 1945, Levi was asked to provide a report on living conditions in Auschwitz. Published the following year, it was then forgotten, and has until now remained unknown to a wider public. Dating from the weeks immediately after the war, Auschwitz Report details the authors' harrowing deportation to Auschwitz, and how those who disembarked from the train were selected for work or extermination. As well as being a searing narrative of everyday life in the camp, and the organization and working of the gas chambers, it constitutes Levi's first lucid attempts to come to terms with the raw horror of events that would drive him to write his other works. 
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/855068?barcode=9781408821459&title=WeArePirates
 We Are Pirates by Daniel Handler         $36.99
A teenage girl pulls together a ragtag crew to commit mayhem in the San Francisco Bay, while her hapless father tries to get her home.
"Honest and funny, dark and painful, We Are Pirates reads like the result of a nightmarish mating experiment between Joseph Heller and Captain Jack Sparrow. It's the strangest, most brilliant offering yet from the mind behind Lemony Snicket." - Neil Gaiman 
"Daniel Handler turns whimsy into wisdom and the fantastic into the great. He is, of course, a genius." - Lorrie Moore

http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/856452-IAmRadar-9781846558566
 I Am Radar by Reif Larsen        $38.00
The new novel from the author of The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet.
How far do you need to travel to know yourself? In 1975, a black child is mysteriously born to white parents. Falling in with a secretive group of puppeteers and scientists, he is soon forced to confront the true nature of his identity. His story rapidly becomes entangled with events stretching from Belgrade in a time of siege to arctic Norway, from pre-Khmer Rouge Cambodia to modern-day Congo. It takes in quantum physics, forgotten history, puppetry and human experience.

http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/852590?barcode=9781444770001&title=theoffering
 The Offering by Grace McCleen      $38.00
A novel taut with foreboding, misled innocence and a heartbreakingly damaged psyche.
"That McCleen is a writer of exceptional gifts is beyond doubt. Her prose can soar in moments of breathtaking beauty, most particularly when she turns a poet’s eye on the landscape, though a minor criticism is that there’s a surfeit of these passages. But she writes equally viscerally about her narrator’s emotional terrain, depicting claustrophobia, shame and terror so painfully it makes your skin itch." - Guardian
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/864281?barcode=9780241187692&title=TheBoyWhoCouldSeeDeath
 The Boy Who Could See Death by Salley Vickers     $45.00
Stories of the uncanny and the unexpected, exploring bereavement and betrayal, closely guarded secrets and common gossip, long-overdue endings and decidedly strange beginnings.
"Salley Vickers sees with a clear eye and writes with a light hand - she knows how the world works. She is a presence worth cherishing." - Philip Pullman


http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/862353?barcode=9780994104793&title=Vivienne%27sBlog
 Vivienne's Blog by Stephen K. Leaton      $35.00
What is real? What is fantasy? What is insanity? A woman convinced she is descended from faeries, and obsessed with her ex-partner and his wife, writes him letters and a blog filled with longing, anger, threats and bitterness.
"The narrator may be unreliable, but the stories she tells, as well as her own, are infinitely appealing." - Kirkus Reviews
>> The author on the radio.  
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/864980?barcode=9781780674735&title=TheSustainableDesignBook
 The Sustainable Design Book by Rebecca Proctor      $69.99
An exciting survey of over 300 products showcasing the latest developments in green design, interviews with designers about green practice, and a consideration of the properties and applications of sustainable materials.

http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/856470?barcode=9780593073667&title=FutureCrimes%3AEverythingisConnected%2CEveryoneisVulnerableandWhatWeCanDoAboutit
Future Crimes: A journey to the dark side of technology - and how to survive it by Marc Goodman        $37.00
Criminals are often the earliest, and most innovative, adopters and adapters of technology. Today's criminals are stealing identities, draining online bank-accounts and wiping out computer servers. It's disturbingly easy to activate baby cam monitors to spy on families, pacemakers can be hacked to deliver a lethal jolt, and thieves are analyzing your social media in order to determine the best time for a home invasion. Meanwhile, 3D printers produce AK-47s, terrorists can download the recipe for the Ebola virus, and drug cartels are building drones. 
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/856458-DancingInTheDarkMyStruggle4-9781846557255
Dancing in the Dark ('My Struggle' #4) by Karl Ove Knausgaard       $38.00
 The fourth part of Knausgaard's astoundingly compelling struggle to burst the novel form by over-packing it with detail. His omnivorous "autobiography" began with A Death in the Family, and treats the meaningful and the meaningless with equal penetration, placing it somewhere between Proust and reality television. 
"Perhaps the most important literary enterprise of our times." - Guardian
"Even when I was bored I was interested." - James Wood 
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/862853-StephenBiestystotheRescue-9781783701544
 To the Rescue by Stephen Biesty      $37.00
Look inside an ambulance, police car, fire engine, rescue helicopter, lifeboat and more to find out their inner workings. With over 40 flaps to lift!
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/875574?barcode=9781927242742&title=ElusivePeace%3AAKiwiPeacekeeperinAngola
Elusive Peace: A kiwi peacekeeper in Angola by John McLeod      $39.99
 In 1998 McLeod served as a United Nations Military Observer, monitoring the fraught Angolan peace process. Achieving peace in that war-wracked country proved elusive, and the violence and bloodshed he experienced affected him deeply. It has taken a long time for John to be able to tell his story, which graphically reveals the disturbing realities of modern peacekeeping - and its far-reaching impact on those at the front line.
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/863586?barcode=9780297871934&title=AccidenceWillHappen
 Accidence Will Happen: The non-pedantic guide to English usage by Oliver Kamm      $39.99
Does the language need to relax a bit to flourish? This book will either excite you or drive you mad. 
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/856296-ItstheEndoftheWorldasWeKnowit-9781444916683
 It's the End of the World as We Know It by Saci Lloyd       $19.99
When teenager Mikey Malone gets sucked through a wormhole into this parallel world, he discovers a power-crazed corporation is planning to use Earth as a dumping ground for an uncontrollable poisonous algae. It's a race against time for Mikey and his rebel friends to stop the ruthless tyrants from getting their way. 
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/853867?barcode=9781844089208&title=OneofUs%3ATheStoryofAndersBreivikandtheMassacresinNorway
One of Us: The story of Anders Breivik and the massacre in Norway by Asne Seierstad         $39.99


http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/853792-SummerintheShadowofByron-9781847678720
 Summer in the Shadow of Byron by Andrew McConnell-Stott       $29.99
What happens if you shut Lord Byron, Percy Shelley, Mary Shelley, John Polidori and Claire Clairmont in a villa on Lake Geneva for the summer? The string of Romantic masterworks (including Frankenstein) is just one of the results...
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/866533?barcode=9781927145623&title=MtJohn%3ATheFirst50Years
Mt John, The first 50 years: A celebration of half a century of optical astronomy at the University of Canterbury by John Hearnshaw and Alan Gilmore      $59.99
Mt John University Observatory was founded in 1965 at Lake Tekapo in the Mackenzie Basin to take advantage of the favourable conditions for astronomy. Telescopes were installed, and in 1981 a lighting ordinance helped protect the site from light pollution. Mt John is both a research observatory and a mecca for stargazing astro-tourists.
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/858074?barcode=9781783130078&title=Tangerine-25InsightsIntoExtraordinaryInnovationandDesign
 Tangerine: 25 insights into extraordinary innovation and design by Antonia Higgs        $65.00
25 design case-studies drawn from the 25 year history of the leading design consultancy.
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/864529?barcode=9780473304980&title=DictionaryOfSlangInNewZealand
Dictionary of Slang in New Zealand by Noel Kelly       $59.99
Kelly has applied a verbal vacuum cleaner to every corner of current New Zealand usage, spoken, printed, txtd, shouted, muttered or tweeted. 
Description: A memoir with a difference. Through much of Bob Brockie's long and colourful life - 80 plus years to date - he has kept a notebook and sketch pad beside him. In this charming book, Dr Robert Brockie remembers - with some help from his diaries - all the highlights. The people (particularly women), places, pioneering scientific work and five decades of political cartooning. There is a strong emphasis on the sketches, portraits, caricatures and cartoons that Brockie is renowned for, but his varied and impressive scientific career is not forgotten. Brockie's life has encompassed editing and illustrating at School Publications, design concepts for Te Papa, DSIR's ground-breaking Orongoronga Valley forest study, possum and hedgehog research, 40 years as National Business Review cartoonist, the writing of a number of books, and over 600 popular newspaper science columns.
Brockie: A memoir in words, cartoons and sketches by Bob Brockie       $39.99
The cartoonist, author and science columnist looks back over eighty years of eventful life, and shares his diaries and sketchbooks.