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19 June 2015


http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/915062?barcode=9781447294825&title=ALittleLife
 A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara      $37.99
 An epic about love and friendship in the twenty-first century that goes into some of the darkest places fiction has ever travelled and yet somehow improbably breaks through into the light.
"This book is the best I’ve read so far this year and one of the best that I’ve ever read. Even when I wasn’t actually reading I was with these characters. It’s thoroughly engrossing, shattering, epic in every sense, and beyond what I thought literature could do." - Holly
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/881087-ZizzThelifeofLenLye-9781927249215
Zizz! The life and art of Len Lye by Len Lye and Roger Horrocks         $29.99
An indispensable collection of Lye's own writing about art, about his art, and about his life, sharply assembled by his biographer, Roger Horrocks.
>> Tusalava, Lye's first film (from 1929!).
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/914529?barcode=9781781255100&title=SeioboThereBelow
 Seiobo There Below by Laszlo Krasznahorkai        $36.99
What is beauty? How can humans achieve and communicate transcendent experience? Krasznahorkai, the Hungarian master of the extended sentence, who has just been awarded the 2015 Man Booker International Prize, builds a multifaceted, highly polished jewel of a fiction, conjuring moments of clarity from history and mythology, from ancient Japan to Renaissance Italy. The pellucidity of the writing sits like a crust over Kransznahorkai's savage pessimism. Ottilie Mulzet won the 2014 Best Translated Book of the Year Award for this book.
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/876228?barcode=9780008135072&title=Stalin%27sDaughter%3ATheExtraordinaryandTumultuousLifeofSvetlanaAlliluyeva
 Stalin's Daughter: The extraordinary and tumultuous life of Svetlana Alliluyeva by Rosemary Sullivan        $34.99
Svetlana Stalin spent her youth inside the walls of the Kremlin. Communist Party privilege protected her from the mass starvation and purges that haunted Russia, but she did not escape tragedy - the loss of everyone she loved and being exiled to Siberia by her father. In 1967 Svetlana shocked the world by defecting to the United States, leaving her two children behind. But although she was never a part of her father's regime, she could not escape his legacy. Her life in America was fractured; she moved frequently, married disastrously, shunned other Russian exiles, and ultimately died in poverty. 
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/906943-TheMakingofMrBolsover-9780099548690
 The Making of Mr Bolsover by Cornelius Medvei          $24.00
 Name: Lynch, Andrew; a.k.a. 'Mr Bolsover.' Career: civil servant, librarian, columnist, local councillor, revolutionary. Recreations: shooting squirrels, skinning rabbits, cooking with rats. Address: present whereabouts unknown; last sighted in South Downs woodland close to the A275. Professional Interests: cataloguing systems, hermits, badger welfare, troglodytes, revolutionary politics. From the calm of Uckfield library to the demands of high office, a life on the run and a final confrontation with the authorities, this is an epic tale of a modern misfit and a political biography like no other.
"A minor masterpiece of the deadpan. A very, very funny book. Genuinely original and written with understated intelligence." - Sunday Telegraph 
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/867843-TheBookofMemoryGaps-9780399171932
 The Book of Memory Gaps by Cecilia Ruiz        $26.00
Has your memory ever let you down, or, worse, deceived you? Cecilia Ruiz has made a beautiful, wistful book about this.
>> Watch these memory gaps.
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/887186-PassporttoHell-9781869408398
 Passport to Hell by Robin Hyde      $39.99
Robin Hyde came across Starkie while reporting in Mt Eden Gaol in the 1930s and immediately knew she had to write his 'queer true terrible story'. The result was greeted by John A. Lee, war veteran, author and politician, as 'the most important New Zealand war book yet published'. Hyde took the raw horrors, respites and reversals of Starkie's experiences and composed a work of literature much greater than a mere documentary of war. She portrays a man looting a dead man's money-belt and filching beer from the Tommies; attempting to shoot a sergeant in a haze of absinthe, yet carrying his wounded captain back across No Man's Land; a man recommended for the V.C. and honoured for his bravery - but also subject to nine courts martial. In its psychological acuity and emotional depth. A new edition of this important book. 
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/868493-MeadowlandThePrivateLifeofanEnglishField-9780552778992
 Meadowland: The private life of an English field by John Lewis-Stempel      $25.00
A beautiful piece of intimate nature-writing, chronicling a year's births, lives and deaths in and around a farm field. Winner of the 2015 Thwaites Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing.
>> An extract

http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/877353-OneMoonlitNight-9781782116769
 One Moonlit Night by Caradog Prichard       $24.99
Is this the Great Welsh Novel? A boy and his friends witness a side to their Welsh village life that they had no idea existed, and their innocence is exchanged for the shocking reality of the adult world.

http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/877385-DoitLikeaWoman-AndChangetheWorld-9781846275791
 Do It Like a Woman, And change the world by Caroline Criado-Perez       $35.00
Every day, all around the world, women are reinventing what it means to be female in cultures where power, privilege or basic freedoms are all too often equated with being male. Here, Criado-Perez introduces us to some of these pioneering women. We meet the first woman to cross the Antarctic alone; we meet a female fighter pilot in Afghanistan; we meet a climate change activist who scaled new heights; we meet a Chilean revolutionary turned politician; we meet the Russian punks who rocked out against Putin; and we meet the Iranian journalist who dared to uncover her hair.
>> Why this fear of autonomous female speech and action?
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/879766-TheTruthAccordingToUs-9780857987945
 The Truth According to Us by Annie Barrows       $37.00
The new book from the co-author of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society. also evokes the charm and eccentricity of a small town peopled with extraordinary characters, the small mill town of Macedonia, West Virginia in the 1930s.
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/915315?barcode=9780199377466&title=TheAltruisticBrain%3AHowWeareNaturallyGood
 The Altruistic Brain: How we are naturally good by Donald W. Pfaff         $45.00
Neuroscientists, behaviouralist psychologists and evolutionary biologists suggest that ethical pro-social behaviour could arise from genetics rather than external systems of law, philosophy or religion.
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/887187-TauiraMaoriMethodsofLearningandTeaching-9781869408220
 Tauira: Maori methods of teaching and learning by Joan Metge        $45.00
What is the role of whanau and hapu, household and marae, kaumatua and siblings, work and play in learning?
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/877360-ParadiseCity-9781408855003
Paradise City by Elizabeth Day                 $37.00
"An acutely observed and insightful portrait of contemporary urban life. Audacious, funny and shrewdly telling - written with tremendous confidence and brio." - William Boyd 
"A wise, big-hearted novel. I was utterly caught up in Day's four interweaving lives." - Esther Freud

http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/881886?barcode=9781743790175&title=ZombieMcCrombiefromanOverturnedKombi
Zombie McCrombie From an Overturned Kombi by Michael Ward         $24.99
An thoroughly nasty Hairy Maclary spoof (why has it taken so long?). This really puts the dog into doggerel.
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/879866-TheAccidentalSpeciesMisunderstandingsofHumanEvolution-9780226271200
The Accidental Species: Misunderstandings of human evolution by Henry Gee       $39.99
Notions such as the "missing link" demonstrate a fairly unscientific popular misunderstanding of the mechanisms of evolution. This book sets out to provide a corrective. 
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/915314?barcode=9780199338870&title=Aha%21%3ATheMomentsofInsightThatShapeOurWorld
 Aha! The moments of insight that shape our world by William B. Irvine         $45.00
For Archimedes, clarity struck while he was taking a bath. For Gustav Mahler, it came as the blades of his oars touched the water. And for Albert Einstein, it emerged while he was talking to a friend. Some great ideas happen suddenly (and some develop slowly). Why?
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/876311-AtHomeintheWholeFoodKitchen-9781910254141
 At Home in the Whole Food Kitchen: Celebrating the art of eating well by Amy Chaplin     $49.99
Everything from how to stock your cupboard to how to use what you have in that cupboard to make food that not only tastes good but is good for you (and the planet). 
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/879304?barcode=9780349139531&title=PlagueandCholera
 Plague and Cholera by Patrick Deville         $28.00
Ceaselessly curious and courageous, Alexandre Yersin, once Pasteur's protege, stands, in this compelling reimagining of his life, a lone genius,against a backdrop of world wars, pandemics, colonialism, progress and decadence.
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/867810-AllLovelyThings-AFieldJournalfortheObjectsThatDefineUs-9780399170591
 All Lovely Things; A field journal for the objects that define us by Lea Redmond        $23.00
Use the prompts to draw a portrait of yourself through the objects that have been and are important to you.
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/913325?barcode=9781925240139&title=TheLostDaughter
 The Lost Daughter by Elena Ferrante      $29.99
While you are waiting for the final book in the 'Neopolitan Quartet' (due in September - pre-order now!), why not read some of Ferrante's back list? All are finely drawn dissections of human relationships. We also currently have stock of The Days of Abandonment and Troubling Love.
 "Ferrante's gift for psychological horror renders it immediate and visceral." - New Yorker 
"This superb and scary Italian writer has blown the lid off tempestuous parent-child relations." - Seattle Times
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/877414-PhilosophyforMilitants-9781781688694
 Philosophy for Militants by Alain Badiou      $17.00
How does politics condition philosophy? How can philosophy sharpen and direct political engagement? What emerging forces of emancipation will reinvigorate democracy? 
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/860469-BehindtheMaskTheLifeofVitaSackville-West-9780007486984
 Behind the Mask: The life of Vita Sackville-West by Matthew Dennison       $25.00
"Dennison captures both Vita's irresistible charm and her selfishness. Like his subject, he is a natural storyteller, and his impeccable scholarship never weighs down his lively narrative." - Independent
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/867118-TheHomingInstinctTheStoryandScienceofMigration-9780007595853
 The Homing Instinct: Meaning and mystery in animal migration by Bernd Heinrich         $25.00
The fascinating science behind the mysteries of animal migration: how geese imprint true visual landscape memory over impossible distances; how the subtlest of scent trails are used by many creatures, from fish to insects to amphibians, to pinpoint their home; and how the tiniest of songbirds are equipped for solar and magnetic orienteering over vast distances.
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/877358-ATimeforEverything-9781846275913
 A Time for Everything by Karl Ove Knausgaard       $24.99
What if everything you read in the Bible were true? How should we deal with angels? How can God change? A new and improved edition of Knausgaard's strange first novel, published before his rise to international prominence with his ongoing 'My Struggle' series. 
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/877408-ACuriousCareer-9781408837214
 A Curious Career by Lynn Barber      $25.00
Lynn Barber, by her own admission, has always suffered from a compelling sense of nosiness. An exceptionally inquisitive child she constantly questioned everyone she knew about imitate details of their lives. This talent for nosiness, coupled with her unusual lack of the very English fear of social embarrassment, turned out to be the perfect qualification for a celebrity interviewer.
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/867394-TheDaughterhoodThegoodthebadtheguiltyofmother-daughterrelationships-9781471135309
The Daughterhood: The good, the bad and the guilty of mother-daughter relationships by Natasha Fennell and Roisin Ingle      $32.99
What unfinished business do you have with your daughter or with your mother?

http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/877654-StrandedShortStories-9780751551297
 Stranded by Val McDermid      $27.99
Nineteen nail-biting, intense and intricately plotted crime stories from one of the UK's greatest psychological thriller writers, this diverse collection demonstrates the scope of Val McDermid's imagination and her powers as a storyteller.
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/877994-GinGloriousGinHowMothersRuinBecametheSpiritofLondon-9781472215345
 Gin, Glorious Gin: How Mother's Ruin became the Spirit of London by Olivia Williams         $28.00
In 1730, 45 million litres of gin were distilled in London and sold from 7,000 dram shops - that's 63 litres for every citizen. 

http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/868996-SamuraiandtheCultureofJapansGreatPeace-9781933789033
Samurai and the Culture of Japan's Great Peace by Fabian Drixler et al     $45.00
This lavishly illustrated book uses artefacts, both virtuoso and unassuming, to give insight into the cultural and political life of early modern Japan. 
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/913514-FlyingFree-9780473319144
 Flying Free: Stories and where they come from, A book for curious children by Adrienne Frater     $37.00
A collection of local author Adrienne Frater's stories, most previously broadcast on National Radio or published in the School Journal. Each is prefaced with an explanation of the story's origin and the path it has taken to the reader or listener.
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/876741-EinsteinsMasterwork1915andtheGeneralTheoryofRelativity-9781848318526
 Einstein's Masterwork: 1915 and the General Theory of Relativity by John Gribbin      $29.99
100 years ago, Albert Einstein presented his masterwork to the Prussian Academy of Sciences - a theory of gravity, matter, space and time: the General Theory of Relativity. Einstein himself said it was 'the most valuable theory of my life', and 'of incomparable beauty'. It describes the evolution of the Universe, black holes, the behaviour of orbiting neutron stars, gravitational lensing, and why clocks run slower on the surface of the Earth than in space. It even suggests the possibility of time travel. 
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/867772-QuantumMechanicsTheTheoreticalMinimum-9780141977812
 Quantum Mechanics: The theoretical minimum by Leonard Susskind      $26.00
Roll up your mental sleeves and get to work on the inner and outer workings of the universe.
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/867815-MrsGrantandMadameJule-9780525954293
 Mrs Grant and Madame Jule by Jennifer Chiaverini         $37.00
Another fine example of historical distaff fiction, this time about the wife of Ulysses S. Grant and her relationship with her namesake slave, from the author of Mrs Lincoln's Dressmaker
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/catalog/45177-FaberModernClassics
 Faber Modern Classics          $15.99 each
They're here! Some of the pegs upon which modern literature is hung are now available in this lovely series. Come and pile them up or click through to browse!




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