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31 December 2015

http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/997301-TheTsarofLoveandTechno-9781781090480
The Tsar of Love and Techno by Anthony Marra      $37.00
A remarkable series of interlocking short stories that hopscotch nimbly through time and place, from the 1930s into the present and beyond, from Leningrad to a Siberian city called Kirovsk to Chechnya and back again.
"Each story is a gem in itself. But the book is greater than its parts, an almost unbearably moving exploration of the importance of love, the pull of family, the uses and misuses of history, and the need to reclaim the past by understanding who you really are and what really happened. Read the stories in order. You’ll see how they build on one another. It’s as if the author has taken a series of transparencies, each containing part of a picture, and carefully laid them on top of one another, layer by layer, so that by the end they make a whole. Mr Marra starts this miracle of a book by showing us how a system can erase the past, the truth, even its citizens. He ends by demonstrating, through his courageous, flawed, deeply human characters, how individual people can restore the things that have been taken away. And if you’ve been worrying that you’ve lost your faith in the emotionally transformative power of fiction – Mr. Marra will restore that, too." - The New York Times
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/921808-EverythingisHappeningJourneyintoaPainting-9781847088079
 Everything is Happening: Journey into a painting by Michael Jacobs         $39.99
 Michael Jacobs was haunted by Velazquez's enigmatic masterpiece 'Las Meninas' from first encountering it in the Prado as a teenager. In this book he searches for the ultimate significance of the painting by following the trails of associations from each individual character in the picture, as well as his own memories of and relationship to this extraordinary work. This is not only the story of a fascinating work, but of how we look at and think about art.


http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/972279-ThisisNotaHouse-9780847846368
This is Not a House by Dan Rubenstein       $139.99
Where the great experimenters of the last century were stripping away ornamentation and creating free-flowing spaces for the first time, today's pioneers are researching the potential of new materials and techniques to push the boundaries of environmental sustainability, as well as creating new forms and bold, sophisticated explorations in the adaptive reuse of spaces originally designed for any number of other purposes.
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/861485-PeopleofPrintInnovativeIndependentDesignandIllustration-9780500517819
People of Print: Independent, innovative design and illustration by Marcroy Smith and Andy Cooke     $85.00
Designers who have eschewed screen-based design to make their work directly onto paper using a wide range of traditional and innovative techniques.
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/1002536-RubiesintheDust-9780473341749
 Rubies in the Dust: Voices from Afghanistan by Tariq Habibyar       $22.00
As a teenage student in Afghanistan, Habibyar cycled to the homes of female students forced out of school by the Taliban, and gave them lessons. Now a doctoral student at Canterbury University, Habibyar returned to Afghanistan and collected these stories of women and girls struggling for education in Afghanistan. With the proceeds of this book, Habibyar will have it translated back into Dari and distributed in Afghanistan to build awareness of the empowering effects of education. 
 
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/918806-One-9781408863114
One by Sarah Crossan       $22.99
Grace and Tippi are twins - conjoined twins. And their lives are about to change. No longer able to afford homeschooling, they must venture into the world - a world of stares, sneers and cruelty. Will they find more than that at school? Can they find real friends? And what about love? But what neither Grace or Tippi realises is that a heart-wrenching decision lies ahead.
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/981241-NotIfISeeYouFirst-9780008146344
Not If I See You First by Eric Lindstrom        $22.99
Parker Grant doesn't need perfect vision to see right through you. That's why she created the Rules: Don't treat her any differently just because she's blind, and never take advantage. There will be no second chances. When Scott Kilpatrick, the boy who broke her heart, suddenly reappears at school, Parker knows there's only one way to react - shun him so hard it hurts. She has enough to deal with already, like trying out for the track team, handing out tough-love advice to her painfully naive classmates, and giving herself gold stars for every day she hasn't cried since her dad's death. But avoiding her past quickly proves impossible, and the more Parker learns about what really happened - both with Scott, and her dad - the more she starts to question if things are always as they seem.
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/966549-AntonyGormleyonSculpture-9780500093955
On Sculpture by Antony Gormley      $65.00
An insight into the mind and theoretical bases of this important artist, encompassing archaeology, anthropology, Asian and Buddhist traditions, as well as Western sculptural concerns.
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/968378-NotesonSuicide-9781910695067
 Notes on Suicide by Simon Critchley       $24.99
"Suicide, in my view, is neither a legal nor moral offence, and should not be seen as such. My intention here is to simply try to understand the phenomenon, the act itself, what precedes it and what follows. I'd like to consider suicide from the point of view of those who have made the leap, or have come close to it - we might even find that the capacity to take that leap is what picks us out as humans." - Critchley
"Critchley makes us think anew about old questions. We must talk about suicide without shame or sanctimony. This book is a good place to start." - Independent 
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/983939-LunchwiththeFT52ClassicInterviews-9780241239469
 Lunch with the FT: 52 classic interviews edited by Lionel Barber     $50.00
 From the very first mouthful, 'Lunch with the FT' was destined to become a permanent fixture in the Financial Times. One thousand lunches later, the FT's weekly interview has become an institution. From film stars to politicians, tycoons to writers, dissidents to lifestyle gurus, the list reads like an international Who's Who of our times. 


http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/794229-WomenGardenDesigners1900ToThePresent-9781870673815
Women Garden Designers, 1900 to the present by Kristina Taylor      $139.99
An interesting survey, charting not only changes in garden design and gardening practices but also correlating these with the emancipation of women.
 
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/974421-Crossroads-9781579656362
Crossroads: Extraordinary recipes from the restaurant that is reinventing vegan cuisine by Tal Ronnen, Scot Jones and Serafina Magnussen        $79.99
>> He's a conscious cook.
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/977323?barcode=9781846147050&title=TheOttomanEndgame%3AWar%2CRevolutionandtheMakingoftheModernMiddleEast%2C1908-1923
 The Ottoman Endgame: War, revolution and the making of the making of the modern Middle East, 1908-1923 by Sean McMeekin       $75.00
From the Italian invasion of Tripoli to the establishment of Turkish independence. Magisterial.
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/990726-IvoryVikings-9781137279378
 Ivory Vikings: The mystery of the most famous chessmen in the world and the woman who made them by Nancy Marie Brown     $49.99
In the early 1800s, on a Hebridean beach in Scotland, the sea exposed an ancient treasure cache: 93 chessmen carved from walrus ivory. Norse netsuke, each face individual, each full of quirks, the Lewis Chessmen are probably the most famous chess pieces in the world. Questions abounded: Who carved them? Where? This book demonstrates the interconnectedness of Norway and Scotland, Ireland and Iceland, and Greenland and North America in the Viking era, and reveals the artist who made these chess pieces in the 12th century: Margret the Adroit of Iceland.
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/975510-SebastiaoSalgado-OtherAmericas-9781597113366
Other Americas by Sabastiao Salgado       $66.00
First published in 1986, Other Americas established Salgado's credentials as visionary reportage photographer. It assembles images from Brazil, Ecuador, Bolivia, Peru, Guatemala, and Mexico, ranging in subject from spiritual and religious practices to changing rural landscapes to intimate domestic life. Salgado's sincerity and sympathetic eye helps us see the Americas anew.
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/994110-MoreThanJustaPlaceofWorkAHistoryofDunedinsHillsideRailwayWorkshops-9780908573912
More Than Just a Place of Work: A history of Dunedin's Hillside Railway Workshops by Ian Dougherty       $65.00
Covers both the engineering history to interest railway enthusiasts, and a political, economic and social history, from the 1860s until the workshops' closure in 2012. Illustrated.
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/973080-AdamSpencersWorldofNumbers-9781921134869
Adam Spencer's World of Numbers by Adam Spencer     $45.00
Numbers are everywhere, and underpin our thinking about the world in often unexpected ways.
>> He talks with Kim Hill.
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/982480-AGuestattheShootersBanquetMyGrandfathersSSPastMyJewishFamilyASearchfortheTruth-9781632862617
A Guest at the Shooters' Banquet: My grandfather's SS past, my Jewish family; A search for the truth by Rita Gabis      $39.99
Five years ago, Gabis discovered an unthinkable dimension to her family story: from 1941 to 1943, her grandfather had been the chief of security police under the Gestapo in the Lithuanian town of Svencionys, near the killing field of Poligon, where eight thousand Jews were murdered over three days in the fall of 1941. In 1942, the local Polish population was also hunted down. Gabis felt compelled to find out the complicated truth of who her grandfather was and what he had done.
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/995415-BetweenRiverandSeaEncountersinIsraelandPalestine-9781780600703
 Between River and Sea: Encounters in Israel and Palestine by Dervla Murphy     $44.00
A perceptive, sympathetic look at lives on both (or all) sides of the divide. Murphy finds compassion and empathy in both communities, but is also appalled by instances of its lack on both sides. Holding onto hope, she comes to believe that despite its difficulties the only viable future lies in a single democratic state of Israel/Palestine, based on one person, one vote - a One-State Solution.
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/981163-CanyoninginNewZealand-9780473330965
Canyoning in New Zealand by Daniel Clearwater        $79.99
51 popular canyons are given the full treatment: canyon overviews, access maps, cross sections, water level recommendations; over 100 further canyons are given briefer treatment.
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/981182-SparkJoy-TheJapaneseArtofDeclutteringandOrganisinganIllustratedMasterClass-9781785040481
 Spark Joy: An illustrated guide to the Japanese art of tidying by Marie Kondo       $37.00
Although proposed as a decluttering tool, the 'sparks joy' test could be usefully employed in (for instance) our bookshop as a method of choosing new things to take home and add to what you already have there. 
>> You can use it on books (especially with the hand movements)

http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/981170-WidowThe-9780593076224
 The Widow by Fiona Barton   $37.00
A woman whose recently deceased husband was the prime suspect in a horrific crime struggles with how—and if—she wants to step out from behind his shadow.
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/981573-ChanceDevelopments-9781846973291
Chance Developments: Unexpected love stories by Alexander McCall Smith      $45.00
McCall Smith has taken 15 found, anonymous photographs and imagined the stories of their subjects.










 Thank you for your support throughout the year. We have discovered some wonderful books together. 
We wish you all the very best for 2016! (There will be yet more wonderful books). 




 
 


18 December 2015



https://pageblackmore.circlesoft.net/products/974239?barcode=9781877375408&title=101WorksofArt
101 Works of Art       $79.99
A beautifully designed and produced survey of some of the most interesting art works - paintings, drawings, sculpture, film and photographs - in the collections of the Christchurch Art Gallery, with thoughtful text by Lara Strongman, Ken Hall, Felicity Milburn, Nathan Pohio, Peter Vangioni and Jenny Harper and interviews with artists and curators. One of the finest art books we have seen this year!
https://pageblackmore.circlesoft.net/products/998846?barcode=9781910695029&title=NocillaDream
Nocilla Dream by Augustin Fernandez Mallo      $29.99
 An arborescently structured novel, hailed as one of the most daring experiments in Spanish literature of recent years. Full of references to indie cinema, collage, conceptual art, practical architecture, the history of computers and the decadence of the novel, Nocilla Dream finds beauty in emptiness.
"An encyclopedia, a survey, a deranged anthropology. Nocilla Dream is just the cold-hearted poetics that might see America for what it really is. There is something deeply strange and finally unknowable to this book, in the very best way - a testament to the brilliance of Agustin Fernandez Mallo." - Ben Marcus
https://pageblackmore.circlesoft.net/products/961577?barcode=9781775501954&title=TeWhitioRongomaiandtheResistanceofParihaka
Te Whiti o Rongomai and the Resistance of Parihaka by Danny Keenan      $45.00
This is an account of the life and times of Te Whiti o Rongomai set against the politics and Crown policies of the nineteenth century. It traces the forces that shaped his life's journey from Ngamotu, where he was born, to his settling at Parihaka and his evolving sense of the injustices and disempowerment Maori experienced and his response to these. The book discusses the struggles Te Whiti had, as understood by some of his living relatives, against native policy of the time, and it gives insights into the motivations of Te Whiti and his actions. It explores the community at Parihaka, its resistance and the consequences of this and looks at Maori and government actions and responses up to the present day.
https://pageblackmore.circlesoft.net/products/158049?barcode=9781927322185&title=UnearthlyLandscapes%3ANewZealand%27sOldCemeteries
Unearthly Landscapes: New Zealand's early cemeteries, churchyards and urupa by Stephen Deed       $49.99
By the nineteenth century the ancient parish churchyards of Britain, burdened with generations of dead, were unable to cope with the strain of rising numbers of corpses. Partially decomposed bodies were regularly disinterred and dumped in pits to free up room for the newly dead. Public concern about health problems eventually put an end to the local parish churchyard burial, and by the time settlers set sail for New Zealand new, larger ‘modern’ cemeteries were being established on the edges of towns. Immigrants therefore brought with them a range of burial traditions, and of course Māori, already long established, had their own rituals. Over time, the various customs borrowed from one another to form a uniquely New Zealand way. Today, old cemeteries dot the countryside, but are ignored by most. Yet the resting places of the dead are, ironically, a reflection of the life of the surrounding community, and New Zealand’s early cemeteries have fascinating stories to tell.
https://pageblackmore.circlesoft.net/products/974629-NewECOHomesNewIdeasforSustainableLiving-9780062395184
New Eco Homes: New ideas for sustainable living by Manel Gutierrez    $79.99
Today's architects, designers, building craftsman, and homeowners are becoming more environmentally conscious, choosing eco-friendly living spaces with small carbon footprints that are built with sustainable materials.
>> If you are disappointed that Small House Living won't be available before Christmas, this book would be a good substitute as a gift.
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/958070?barcode=9781473627376&title=Stalin%27sEnglishman
Stalin's Englishman: The lives of Guy Burgess by Andrew Lownie        $39.99
Guy Burgess was the most important, complex and fascinating of 'The Cambridge Spies' - Maclean, Philby, Blunt - all brilliant young men recruited in the 1930s to betray their country to the Soviet Union. An engaging and charming companion to many, an unappealing, utterly ruthless manipulator to others, Burgess rose through academia, the BBC, the Foreign Office, MI5 and MI6, gaining access to thousands of highly sensitive secret documents which he passed to his Russian handlers. 
https://pageblackmore.circlesoft.net/products/977439-NewYorkDrawings-9780571326914
New York Drawings by Adrian Tomine      $33.00
Two strangers, both reading the same novel, share a fleeting glance between passing subway cars. A bookstore owner locks eyes with a neighbor as she receives an Amazon package. Strangers are united by circumstance as they wait on the subway stairs for a summer storm to pass. Instantly recognizable, Adrian Tomine's illustrations and comics have been appearing for over a decade in the pages (and on the cover) of The New Yorker.
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/995343-OneNightMarkovitch-9781782271635
 One Night, Markovitch by Ayelet Gundar-Goshen        $22.99
 In the late 1930s, two men - Yaacov Markovitch, perennially unlucky in love, and Zeev Feinberg, virile owner of a lustrous moustache - are crossing the sea to marry women they have never met. They will rescue them from a Europe on the brink of catastrophe, bring them to the Jewish homeland and go their separate ways. But when Markovitch is paired with the beautiful Bella he vows to make her love him at any cost, setting in motion events that will change their lives in the most unexpected and capricious of ways.
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/981859-TheGlassSentenceMapmakersTrilogy1-9780142423660
The Glass Sentence ('Mapmakers' trilogy #1) by S.E. Grove      $24.00
Boston, 1891. Thirteen-year-old Sophia Tims lives with her uncle, cartologer Shadrack Elli, in a world torn to pieces by the Great Disruption of 1799 - when all of the continents were mysteriously thrown into different time periods, from the prehistoric era to the fortieth century. Sophia's parents are explorers. She has not seen them in years, since they went on an expedition and never returned. When Shadrack is kidnapped from their home, Sophia sets out-along with her new friend, Theo - to find him. Their journey takes them across the country. Along with a group of lawabiding pirates, and a wayward botanist and his daughter, they search for Sophia's uncle, and run for their lives. What they learn-about mapmaking, the changes taking place in the world, and the legends of the land-transforms Sophia forever.
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/966546-TheScentofaDream-TravelsintheWorldofCoffee-9781419719219
 The Scent of a Dream: Travels in the world of coffee by Sabastiao Salgado     $99.99
Acclaimed photographer Sebastiao Salgado documents traditional methods of sustainable coffee farming across the globe, revealing rituals deeply steeped in history and pride.The book spans nearly a decade of research into the hidden world of coffee, highlighting relationships characterised by respect, fair exchange and a shared understanding that ever-improving quality has the power to improve lives.
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/982334-Number11OrTalesThatWitnessMadness-9780670923809
 Number 11, Or, Tales that witness madness by Jonathan Coe       $38.00
A sequel of sorts to What a Carve Up! this book continues to exemplify Coe's obsession with political degeneration and public paranoia.

https://pageblackmore.circlesoft.net/products/983283?barcode=9781775502050&title=PolynesianPanthers%3APacificProtestandAffirmativeActioninAotearoaNewZealand1971-1981
Polynesian Panthers: Pacific protest and affirmative action in Aotearoa New Zealand, 1971-1981 by Melani Anae        $39.99
Formed in 1971, the Polynesian Panthers sought to raise consciousness and took action in response to the racism and discrimination Pacific peoples faced in New Zealand in the 1970s and 1980s. The Panthers organised prison visit programmes and sporting and debating teams for inmates; provided a halfway-house service for young men released from prison; ran homework centres; and offered ‘people’s loans’, legal aid and food banks that catered for 600 families at their height. Drawing on interviews, memoirs, poetry, newspaper articles and critical analysis, Polynesian Panthers is a thought-provoking account of this period in New Zealand.
https://pageblackmore.circlesoft.net/products/999645?barcode=9780994104182&title=TheFishesofNewZealandposter
Fishes of New Zealand poster          $25.00
A large and attractive poster made from the images in the monumental The Fishes of New Zealand
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/982927-TheHappyReaderIssue4-9780241203002
 The Happy Reader, Issue 4      $7.99
Interviews! Articles! Reviews! Pick up a copy of this lively literary magazine.
https://pageblackmore.circlesoft.net/products/980233-TheScepticalGardenerTheThinkingPersonsGuidetoGoodGardening-9781848319332
The Sceptical Gardener: The thinking person's guide to gardening by Ken Thompson       $27.99
Why is that we seem to care more for common rather than rare animals? How can a gardener improve the flavour of their vegetables? And what do bees do that improves strawberries? From the difference between British and Spanish bluebells, why Matucana and High Scent sea peas are far superior to the Valerie Harrod variety, and the easy way to sex an earwig, Thompson provides an expert's miscellany of gardening knowledge, aimed at making you not necessarily a better gardener - but quite probably a far more thoughtful one. 
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/999862?barcode=9780473338800&title=TacklingDepressionandBullying%3AAyoungperson%27sguide
 Tackling Depression and Bullying: A young person's guide by Mitchell Richards     $22.00
Focuses on the author's personal experiences and on the strategies he used to deal with bullying and depression.
 
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/977931?barcode=9781611802382&title=Sourdough%3A108RecipesforRusticFermentedBreads%2CSweets%2CSavories%2CandMore
Sourdough: recipes for rustic fermented bread, sweets, savouries and more by Sarah Owens      $65.00
Demystifies the whole gamut of sourdough baking without reducing the magic.
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/977860-ClassicBeetleAVWCelebration-9781910496619
 Classic Beetle: A VW celebration by Keith Seume      $59.99
Displays every variant Beetle, from the WWII military vehicles to the last German-manufactured model in 1979.  
https://pageblackmore.circlesoft.net/products/999856?barcode=9780994122346&title=PoharaSportsClimbs
Pohara Sports Climbs by Michael Cartwright       $22.00
A guide to climbing the rewarding Bullock Creek crags.











11 December 2015

https://pageblackmore.circlesoft.net/products/977311?barcode=9780241248881&title=PublicLibraryandOtherStories
Public Library, And other stories by Ali Smith      $38.00
What is the special power of books? How do the books we read make us who we are? The stories in Ali Smith’s new collection all concern books – how they travel with us, shock us, change us, challenge us, banish time while making us older, wiser and ageless all at once; how they remind us to pay attention to the world.

https://pageblackmore.circlesoft.net/products/957234-Usedtobe-9781784630362
Used to Be by Elizabeth Baines         $22.99
What if, in a parallel universe, you made a different choice of lover? What if you've spent your whole life with entirely the wrong idea about your own sister? What do you do if you're trapped in a phone box by a woman who might be a victim, but could have accomplices nearby? What if we're wrong that ghosts come from the past, they come from somewhere else? What if we're only dreaming the life we think we're living? And can your life be changed by a message written by starlings on the sky? Baines's stories whip the ground away from beneath your feet (I'm sure you like that sort of thing).
https://pageblackmore.circlesoft.net/products/977586-BeforetheFeast-9781782271291
Before the Feast by Sasa Stanišić        $32.99
"Switching among styles with a dancing virtuosity, Stanisic knits a dozen characters into a multi-stranded tissue of gossip, myth and memory, layering tales from past and present into a late-summer night's dream. Stanisic makes a dream team with Anthea Bell, who translates with a pitch-perfect ear for every twist and frisk of his German. Although the novel's recursive, portmanteau form may lack urgency, its sheer versatility of voice and multiplicity of viewpoint mean that this vigil never drags. As an ensemble piece, with its true hero a place, Before the Feast may remind British readers of Graham Swift's Waterland or Adam Thorpe's Ulverton. Its sheer versatility of voice and multiplicity of viewpoint mean that this vigil never drags." - Boyd Tonkin, Independent
https://pageblackmore.circlesoft.net/products/980203?barcode=9781782271154&title=IWasJackMortimer
I Was Jack Mortimer by Alexander Lernet-Holenia        $22.99
A man climbs into Ferdinand Sponer's cab, gives the name of a hotel, and before he reaches it has been murdered: shot through the throat. And though Sponer has so far committed no crime, he is drawn into the late Jack Mortimer's life, and might not be able to escape its tangles and intrigues before it is too late...
"The cast of this brilliant thriller are pure Raymond Chandler, but the Viennese setting gives it an extra, stylish twist. It's excellently written and fearsomely gripping." - The Times
https://pageblackmore.circlesoft.net/products/968064?barcode=9781782116608&title=Brain-TheStoryofYou
The Brain: The story of you by David Eagelman           $36.99
The latest discoveries enable neurology to enter the preserves of psychology and philosophy. Eagleman’s descriptions of the behaviour of neurones tell us much about how we generate our idea of reality, our feelings and thoughts, our ideas about ourselves and our capacities. Accessible and profound. 
https://pageblackmore.circlesoft.net/products/976122?barcode=9781782690894&title=TheStoryofAntigone
The Story of Antigone by Ali Smith, illustrated by Laura Paoletti        $18.99
"The crow crossed the sky, slow-beating her wings. Beat, beat, beat. It was night, not yet morning, and her feathers were so black that she coasted the air invisible above the city wall." Thus begins Ali Smith's masterful retelling of Sophocles' tragedy about a young Theban princess who decides to bury her dishonoured brother Polynices against King Creon's express orders - with heart-breaking consequences. Vividly told and illustrated, Smith's Antigone is the perfect introduction to the Greek tragedy for young (and not-so-young) readers.
"A stylish, imaginative reworking, beautifully illustrated." - Guardian
https://pageblackmore.circlesoft.net/products/994670?barcode=9781877578915&title=Landfall230%3AAotearoaNewZealandArtsandLetters
Landfall 230 edited by David Eggleton        $29.99
A strongly multicultural issue, reflecting the diversity and energy of contemporary New Zealand writing, with contributions by, among others, writers of Mexican, Samoan, Rotuman, Chinese, Irish and Indian backgrounds. 
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/994281-HomeTruthsConfrontingNewZealandsHousingCrisis-9780947492335
 Home Truths: Confronting New Zealand's housing crisis by Philippa Howden-Chapman     $14.99
Housing affordability. Unhealthy homes. Wealth inequality. Environmental sustainability. Social mobility. The state of New Zealand housing is central to major issues confronting this country. Howden-Chapman reveals how New Zealand has lost its way on housing. Once a world leader in housing policy, we have neglected our heritage to the point that we are now faced with some of the worst housing in the developed world.
https://pageblackmore.circlesoft.net/products/964276-StoryofLife-Evolution-9781760400064
Story of Life: Evolution by Katie Scott      $29.99
A fold-out graphic guide that provides a reference to evolution and life forms. The very attractive book starts with the first single-cell organisms and ends with modern life forms. A wonderful companion to Animalium (but also wonderful by itself!).

https://pageblackmore.circlesoft.net/products/879667?barcode=9781471129452&title=TheTearsoftheRajas%3AMutiny%2CMoneyandMarriageinIndia1805-1905
The Tears of the Rajas: Mutiny, money and marriage in India, 1805-1905 by Ferdinand Mount        $45.00
"Fascinating, intelligent and even-handed history of a century of the British in India through the eyes of one Scottish family, Mount's own." - Listener 'Top 100 Books' 
  
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/996211-TheTruceTheDiaryofMartinSantome-9780141396859
The Truce by Mario Benedetti            $29.99
“I always give less than what I have. That’s my style of loving: a bit reluctant, reserving my maximum effort for only the biggest occasions.” Forty-nine, with a kind face, no serious ailments (apart from varicose veins on his ankles), a good salary and three moody children, widowed accountant Martin Santome is about to retire. He assumes he'll take up gardening, or the guitar, or whatever retired people do. What he least expects is to fall passionately in love with his shy young employee Laura Avellaneda. As they embark upon an affair, happy and irresponsible, Martin begins to feel the weight of his quiet existence lift - until, out of nowhere, their joy is cut short.
https://pageblackmore.circlesoft.net/products/983909?barcode=9780141027944&title=Stalin%3Av.1%3AParadoxesofPower%2C1878-1928
Stalin: Paradoxes of power, 1878-1928 by Stephen Kotkin      $29.99
In January 1928 Stalin, the ruler of the largest country in the world, boarded a train bound for Siberia where he would embark upon the greatest gamble of his political life. He was about to begin uprooting and collectivisation of agriculture and industry across the entire Soviet Union. Millions would die, and many more would suffer. Where did such power come from? The first of three volumes, the product of a decade of research, this landmark book offers the most convincing explanation yet of Stalin's power.
http://touchdownpageandblackmore.blogspot.co.nz/2015_12_11_archive.html
 The Visiting Privilege: New and collected stories by Joy Williams      $65.00
 Joy Williams has been celebrated as a master of the short story for four decades, her renown passing as a given from one generation to the next even in the shifting landscape of contemporary writing. And at long last the scope of her achievement is put on display: thirty-three stories drawn from three much-lauded collections, and another thirteen appearing here for the first time in book form, showcasing her crisp, elegant prose, her dark wit, and her uncanny ability to illuminate our world through characters and situations that feel at once peculiar and foreign and disturbingly familiar.
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The Fast Men by Tom McNab     $22.99
Butch Cassidy and Sundance make way! Here come Buck Miller and Billy Joe Speed, the fastest men in the West - but not with their guns. With their coach and mentor, the Honorable Professor Moriarty, they con their way from Kansas City to Mexico in 1870s America. They don't play by the rules and sometimes only their vaunted speed gets them out of town ahead of the lynch mob.
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 Twister by Jane Woodham      $29.99
 March 2013. Two months before parliament is to vote on legalising gay marriage, a spate of vicious attacks on gay men erupts in Dunedin. Then a twister rips through, uncovering the body of schoolgirl, Tracey Wenlock. Former Londoner, Detective Senior Sergeant Leo Judd, is to lead the investigation, the first such enquiry since his own daughter, Beth, went missing nine years earlier. As Judd carefully uncovers the truth surrounding Tracey Wenlock's death, the trauma associated with his own daughter's disappearance resurfaces. Shortly afterwards, Judd's wife, Kate, confesses to him the truth about the day their daughter vanished, and Judd is finally able to confront the man responsible for their daughter's dissapearance. 
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How to Clone a Mammoth: The science of de-extinction by Beth Shapiro       $65.00
From deciding which species should be restored, to sequencing their genomes, to anticipating how revived populations might be overseen in the wild, Shapiro vividly explores the cutting-edge science that is being used to resurrect the past.
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 The Visitors Book, And other ghost stories by Sophie Hannah      $22.99
 Why is a young woman so unnerved by the presence of a visitors book in her boyfriend's inner-city home? And whose spidery handwriting is it that fills the pages? Who is the strangely courteous boy still lingering at a child's tenth birthday party when all the parents have gathered their children and left? And why does the presence of a perfectly ordinary woman in a post office queue leave another customer pallid and sweating with fear?

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Charlotte Bronte: A life by Claire Harman        $39.99
"Harman’s sane, unshowy retelling is exactly right for the bicentenary next April. It never insults the reader’s intelligence by pretending that it has new, startling truths to impart. Instead it gathers up the best of what has been written before and deals tactfully and decisively with the sillier aspects of Brontë mythology. The result is a classic biographical narrative, shipshape and serviceable for the next 200 years." - Guardian
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 The Diemenois: Being the correct and true account of the sensational escape, seclusion and cruel demise of a most infamous man by J.W. Clennett       $39.95
 Little is known about the French Tasmanian colony of la Ville de Baudin. Less still about its most mysterious colonist, Henri Maurice Claudet. This graphic novel sets this to rights. 
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The Puriri Disaster by Ben Gibbs      $19.99
The Nelson-owned motor vessel Puriri was the only ship destroyed in enemy action in New Zealand territorial waters during World War II.

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Olivia Spencer Bower: Making her own discoveries by Julie King      $49.99
"I paint for myself. That's the only way. For when you paint to please it's not the honest thing & inhibits the chances of discovery, because there's no point in writing or painting unless you make your own discoveries." Olivia Spencer Bower wrote those words near the end of an almost six-decade career. Outwardly sociable, hospitable and colourful, the friend of artists from Rita Angus to Colin McCahon, she remained a private, thoughtful person. Her conviction that artists should have the freedom and opportunity to make their own discoveries led to the establishment of her art award. Well illustrated.
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 A Notable Woman: The romantic journals of Jean Lucey Pratt edited by Simon Garfield      $49.99
In April 1925, Jean Lucey Pratt started a journal that she would keep for the rest of her life, producing over a million words in 45 exercise books. For sixty years, no one had an inkling of her diaries' existence, and they have remained unpublished until now. Jean wrote about anything that amused, inspired or troubled her, laying bare her life with aching honesty, infectious humour, indelicate gossip and heartrending hopefulness. She recorded her yearnings and disappointments in love. She documented the loss of a tennis match, her unpredictable driving, catty friends, devoted cats and difficult guests. 
"Extraordinary. Timeless, funny and utterly absorbing." - Hilary Mantel
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 The Light That Gets Lost by Natasha Carthew       $22.99
A small boy hiding in a cupboard witnesses something no child should ever see. He tries not to look but he still hears it. And when he comes out, there's no mistaking. His mum and dad have been killed. And though he's only small, he swears that he'll get revenge one day. Years later, Trey goes to a strange camp that is meant to save troubled teenagers. It's packed with crazies, god-botherers, devoted felons and broken kids. Trey's been in and out of trouble ever since the day the bad thing happened, but he's not here for saving: this is where he'll find the man who did it. Revenge and healing, salvation and hell are a boiling, dangerous mix, and Trey finds himself drawn to a girl, a dream and the offer of friendship in the dark ...
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The Land Agent by J. David Simons       $22.99
Palestine, 1920s. Working as an agent for one of the richest men in the world, Polish-Jewish immigrant Lev Sela finds himself swept into a relationship with Celia Kahn, a mesmerising Scottish pioneer, after stumbling upon a strategic area of land that doesn't exist on any map.
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When the Facts Change: Essays, 1995-2010 by Tony Judt         $38.00
The final posthumous collection of essays from this outstanding thinker. Whether the subject is the scholarly poverty of the new social history, the willful blindness of French collective memory about what happened to the country's Jews during World War II, or the moral challenge to Israel of the so-called Palestinian problem, the majesty of Tony Judt's work lies in his combination of unsparing honesty, intellectual acuity, and ethical clarity.
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Masters of Mankind: Essay and lectures, 1969-2013 by Noam Chomsky         $26.00
Noam Chomsky exposes the real nature of state power, holding the arguments of empire up to critical examination and shattering the myths of those who protect the power and privilege of the few against the interests and needs to the many.

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Empire of Cotton: A new history of global capitalism by Sven Beckert     $29.99
Cotton has created vast empires, powered the industrial revolution, generated huge wealth - and unimaginable suffering.
"A major work of scholarship that will not be soon surpassed as the definitive account of the product that was, as Beckert puts it, the Industrial Revolution's 'launching pad'. - The New York Times
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Fallen Glory: The lives and deaths of twenty lost buildings, from the Tower of Babel to the Twin Towers by James Crawford        $55.00


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Hyena by Jude Angelini        $26.00
Compelling or tiresome? Angelini's supposedly autobiographical stories of sex, drugs and general hedonism in post-industrial Detroit have been compared with Charles Bukowski and Hunter S. Thompson.