New books to hit the spot


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24 March 2016

http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/1002964?barcode=9781925240894&title=TheNotebookTrilogy
The Notebook Trilogy by Agota Kristof        $39.99
In an unnamed country [Hungary] during an unnamed war [WWII], twin brothers from the Big Town are deposited with their unknown grandmother in the Little Town [near the German border]. Their belongings are immediately taken and sold by their grandmother, apart from their father’s big dictionary, which they use to write their story in the big notebook they demand from the local bookseller on the basis of ‘absolute need’.
 "The Notebook is one of the great underknown books of the twentieth century. The narrators’ dual identity, the pared-back matter-of-fact prose without metaphor or superfluity, the rigour with which small and horrendous matters are treated with flat equivalence make this book powerful, moving (while remaining unsentimental) and memorable. I recommend you read it as soon as possible." - Thomas (read my full review here)
https://pageblackmore.circlesoft.net/products/780992?barcode=9781909263109&title=Shackleton%27sJourney
Shackleton's Journey by William Grill      $32.99
"I vowed to myself that some day I would go to the region of ice and snow, and go on and on 'til I came to one of the poles of the Earth, the end of the axis on which this great round ball turns." - Ernest Shackleton
How did Shackleton and his crew manage to survive crossing the frozen heart of Antarctica? What drew them there and what drove them on? What was it like to be small in the vast whiteness? This superlatively wonderful children's book will be a treasure for any age.
Winner of Kate Greenaway Medal 2015.
>> Look at this and resist if you can (but why would you resist?)
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/1003280?barcode=9781775538578&title=LoveasaStranger
 Love as a Stranger by Owen Marshall       $38.00
Temporarily in Auckland while her husband is undergoing treatment, Sarah enjoys a walk in the coolness of the Symonds Street Cemetery. As she pauses at the grave of Emily Keeling, murdered in 1886 by a rejected suitor, a stranger named Hartley strikes up a conversation. Before long he arranges to meet Sarah for coffee. So their friendship begins, and soon blossoms into an affair, rich in mutual understanding and sexual excitement. But love may become obsession, which brings with it disquieting demands, even menace. When love is not madness, it is not love...
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/998011?barcode=9780241248775&title=MyNameisLucyBarton
 My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout         $38.00
 Lucy Barton is recovering slowly from what should have been a simple operation. Her mother, to whom she hasn't spoken for many years, comes to see her. Her unexpected visit forces Lucy to confront the tension and longing that have informed every aspect of her life: her impoverished childhood in Amgash, Illinois, her escape to New York and her desire to become a writer, her faltering marriage, her love for her two daughters.
"Writing of this quality comes from a commitment to listening, from a perfect attunement to the human condition, from an attention to reality so exact that it goes beyond a skill and becomes a virtue." - Hilary Mantel
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/996474?barcode=9781620401378&title=HowtoTalkAboutPlacesYou%27veNeverBeenOntheImportanceofArmchairTravel
 How to Talk About Places You've Never Been: On the importance of armchair travel by Pierre Bayard               $39.99
 Bayard examines the art of the "non-journey," a tradition that a succession of writers and thinkers, unconcerned with moving away from their home turf, have employed in order to encounter the foreign cultures they wish to know and talk about. He describes concrete situations in which the reader might find himself having to speak about places he's never been, and he chronicles some of his own experiences and offers practical advice.
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/1008190?barcode=9781408862254&title=TheTrees
 The Trees by Ali Shaw      $29.99
Ali Shaw takes readers on a strange and vivid journey into an ancient forest that has taken over the world with force. The Trees is a thought-provoking meditation on what it means to be wild. Death, darkness and eerie creatures lurk among the branches, but it's the human characters that surprise the most. What happens when law and order is stripped away and people are left to their own moral codes? 
"The Trees does for trees what Hitchcock did for birds. You have been warned." - Irish Times
https://pageblackmore.circlesoft.net/products/1003458?barcode=9780143107859&title=TheJourneyofthePenguin
The Journey of the Penguin by Emiliano Ponzi        $48.00
A wonderful picture-only book telling the story of a bored penguin who sets off on a journey that leads him to England, where he becomes the symbol for Penguin Books.
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/999917?barcode=9780571319701&title=Love%2BHate%3AStoriesandEssays
 Love + Hate: Stories and essays by Hanif Kureishi        $27.99
 Hate skews reality even more than love. In the story of a Pakistani woman who has begun a new life in Paris, an essay about the writing of Kureishi's acclaimed film Le Week-End, and an account of Kafka's relationship with his father, readers will find Kureishi also exploring growing up and growing old; betrayal and loyalty; imagination and repression; marriage and fatherhood. 

http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/1013918?barcode=9781250101037&title=LustandWonder
 Lust and Wonder by Augusten Burroughs     $32.99
 In chronicling the development and demise of the different relationships he's had while living in New York, Augusten Burroughs examines what it means to be in love, what it means to be in lust, and what it means to be confused as to which is which.
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/953515?barcode=9781909263574&title=MadAboutMonkeys
Mad About Monkeys by Owen Davey       $29.99
Beautifully illustrated and full of monkeys, this book explores the many different types of monkeys from the smallest Pygmy Marmoset to the largest Mandrill, and provides all the facts you wanted to know (and more). Discover where monkeys come from, how they swing from tree to tree, and why they fight and play with each other.

http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/1003318-EverywhereILook-9781925355369
Everywhere I Look by Helen Garner           $37.00
Collected short non-fiction from this superb writer (author of, most recently, This House of Grief), showing her great range and perspicacity.
"It is Garner's willingness to look at and truly see the failures of human behaviour, in herself no less than in others, that lends her work its power." - Guardian
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/1010458?barcode=9780349008516&title=VioletHour%3AGreatWritersattheEnd
 The Violet Hour: Great writers at the end by Katie Roiphe       $37.99
 Investigates the last days of six great thinkers, writers and artists as they come to terms with the reality of approaching death. Pays particular attention to Susan Sontag, Sigmund Freud, Dylan Thomas, John Updike and Maurice Sendak.
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/1003336?barcode=9780714870670&title=TheDocumentaryImpulse
The Documentary Impulse by Stuart Franklin        $45.00
Why are we driven to make a record of the world around us, and of the moments in which we find ourselves? Looking at photojournalism, war photography and work recording our culture, Franklin identifies some of its driving impulses: curiosity, outrage, reform and ritual; the search for evidence, for beauty, for therapy; and the immortalisation of memory.

http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/976972-GloryOBriensHistoryoftheFuture-9780316222730
Glory O'Brien's History of the Future by A.S. King        $19.99
When Glory O'Brien is transformed by a power to see a person's infinite past and future, she's bombarded with visions of a terrifying world: a second civil war breaks out, and girls vanish daily. And even though Glory may not see a future for herself, she'll do anything to make sure this one doesn't come to pass.
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/1005954-ParisisAlwaysaGoodIdea-9781743548134
Paris is Always a Good Idea by Nicolas Barreau        $29.99
Rosalie Laurent is a graphic artist and proud owner of a little postcard shop in Saint-Germain. Her specialty is producing 'wishing cards', and every birthday Rosalie sends a card inscribed with her heart's desire fluttering down from the Eiffel Tower - but none of her wishes have ever been fulfilled. Then one day a famous author of children's books enters her store and her life. When the elderly gentleman asks her to illustrate his new (and probably last) book, Rosalie is only too glad to accept, and the two very different maverick artists become friends. Rosalie's wishes seem to be coming true at last, until a clumsy American professor accuses her of plagiarism. Rosalie is unsure whether love or trouble is blowing through her door, but when in doubt, she knows that Paris is always a good idea.
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/995856?barcode=9781471116612&title=LadyMidnight%28DarkArtifices%231%29
 Lady Midnight ('Dark Artifices' #1) by Cassandra Clare      $32.99
 It's been five years since the events of City of Heavenly Fire that brought the Shadowhunters to the brink of oblivion. Emma Carstairs is no longer a child in mourning, but a young woman bent on discovering what killed her parents and avenging her losses. Together with her parabatai Julian Blackthorn, Emma must learn to trust her head and her heart as she investigates a demonic plot that stretches across Los Angeles, from the Sunset Strip to the enchanted sea that pounds the beaches of Santa Monica. If only her heart didn't lead her in treacherous directions... A sequel to the 'Mortal Elements' series. 
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/1003281-ThisChangeintheLight-9781775538554
This Change in the Light by Fiona Kidman      $37.00
A collection of poems providing insight into the beloved writer's life and concerns.

http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/1006777-TheAgeofGenius-TheSeventeenthCenturyandtheBirthoftheModernMind-9781408870389
The Age of Genius: The seventeenth century and the birth of the modern mind by A.C. Grayling         $29.99
Britain's most eminent publicly engaged intellectual explains how, fuelled by original and unorthodox thinking, war and technological invention, the seventeenth century became the crucible of modernity.
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/1003286-ReturntotheLittleCoffeeShopofKabul-9780857988317
Return to the Little Coffee Shop of Kabul by Deborah Rodriguez        $37.00
A spell-binding sequel to the immensely popular The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul. Six women around the world are united by the little coffee shop. Will the world deliver on their hopes?
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/1003294-PipiatHome-9781775538394
Pipi at Home by Alexandra Tylee      $65.00
These are the meals and special treats Alex makes at her Hawkes Bay farmhouse when she's not working in her iconic Havelock North restaurant.
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/1006812-TheTraitorsMaskTheophilusGrey2-9781760113612
Theophilus Grey and the Traitor's Mask by Catherine Jinks     $22.99
In eighteenth-century London, twelve-year-old linkboy Philo Grey has spent most of his childhood out on the streets, collecting information to sell. One of his best customers, Mr Bishop, pays him good money for intelligence about the Jacobites, who are plotting to overthrow King George. But spying on the Jacobites is a dangerous business - especially when Philo becomes the target of a rival gang of linkboys. And then there's Philo's old master, Garnet Hooke, who's never forgiven Philo for leaving him. Garnet feels so betrayed, he'll stop at nothing...Luckily, Philo has friends as well as enemies. He can trust his crew of linkboys, his team of informants, and his staunch friend Nathaniel Paxton, a surgeon with a background in espionage. Even his new friend, actress and master of disguise, Caroline Cowley, is a valuable ally. But with his enemies closing in, Philo has to ask himself: where should his loyalties really lie?
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/1006950-TheBookofLies-9781408334287
 Book of Lies by Teri Terry     $19.99
 They are trapped, frozen. Waiting. Straining against the wood that holds them. The unwary catch a glimpse now and then - feel their desperate hunger, see a glint of red eyes - and scurry out of the shadows of the wood, back to the light. She's coming; it will be soon. They will run free on the moors again. The Hunt will return. And the ground will run with blood. Tell a lie and the darkness will find you. Quinn and Piper are twins, but they've never met. A tragic event brings them together, and draws them into a family curse that stretches across centuries. From the author of the 'Slated' trilogy.


http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/1004220-WheretheTreesWere-9780733634536
Where the Trees Were by Inga Simpson      $37.99
"We swear, on these trees, to always be friends. To protect each other - and this place." The trees forged a bond between Jay and her four childhood friends and opened their eyes to a wider world. But their attempt to protect the grove ends in disaster, and that one day on the river changes their lives forever. Seventeen years later, Jay finally has her chance to make amends. But at what cost?
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/1005960-Surrender-9781743549131
Surrender: A journal for my daughter by Joshua Yeldham        $59.99
You will need to have a look at this special book to fully appreciate it. Artist Joshua Yeldham tells the story of his life in photographs, drawing and words, intimating his very deep connection with the place he was born and the places in which he has learned to live.

http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/1002996?barcode=9781605989556&title=Hair%3AAHumanHistory
 Hair: A human history by Kurt Stenn      $45.00
Hair, luxuriant in some places and almost absent in others seems an evolutionary eccentricity. This book is a thorough examination of the place of hair in human culture.
>> Do you know any redheads?
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/1008204-QuentinBlakeAnArtistatWork-9781441130075
Quentin Blake in the Theatre of the Imagination: An artist at work by Ghislaine Kenyon      $55.00
Kenyon's close association with Blake makes this a fascinating insight into the artist and his art.

http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/1003313-TheTrap-9781925240870
The Trap by Melanie Raabe         $37.00
Twelve years ago, Linda's sister Anna was murdered. Her killer was never caught, but Linda saw him. Now, all these years later, she's just seen him again on TV. He's become a well-known journalist, and Linda - a famous novelist and infamous recluse - knows no one will believe her if she accuses him. She does the only thing she can think of: she sets a trap, writing a thriller called Blood Sisters about the unsolved murder of a young woman. When Blood Sisters is published, Linda agrees to give just one media interview. At home. To the one person who knows more about the case than she does...
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/1006805-PerfectImperfect-TheBeautyofAccidentAgePatina-9781743364819
Perfect Imperfect: The beauty of accident, age and patina by Karen McCartney       $69.99
How can the principles of wabi-sabi be applied to interior decorating. How have digital technologies been used to enhance the 'authenticity' of objects and physical spaces? This book will inspire you to live in spaces that feel lived in.
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/1006810-TheHaters-9781760291891
The Haters by Jesse Andrews     $22.99
Wes and Corey are convinced nothing cool can come of their lame summer at jazz camp, when along comes Ash and cracks their world wide open. Finally, something they can't seem to hate. When Ash convinces them that a great musician is made on the road, the three friends flee camp and begin an epic, hilarious road trip: The Haters 2016 Summer of Hate Tour. Amid sneaking into seedy bars, evading their parents and the police, and spending every minute together in a makeshift tour bus, romance blossoms and bursts, and hygiene takes a back seat. Wes begins to realise the limitations of hating everything: it keeps you at a convenient distance from something, or someone, you just might love. But when you can find something to hate about every band, how do you make a sound you love?
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/1003430?barcode=9780143507208&title=GladysGoestoWar
Gladys Goes to War by Glyn Harper and Jenny Cooper      $19.99
The true story of Gladys Stanford, ambulance driver in WWI and the first woman to gain a pilot's licence in New Zealand.
https://pageblackmore.circlesoft.net/products/1003418-Movers-9781783443796
Movers by Meghan McIsaac        $21.00
 The world is dying, overcrowded and polluted. Storms rage over the immensely tall tower blocks, attracted to Movers. Movers are connected to people in the future, their Shadows. And moving your Shadow is highly illegal. Patrick knows all too well what happens if you break the law: his father has been in the Shelves ever since he moved his Shadow. And now Patrick and his family are in danger again. Following a catastrophic event at their school, Patrick must go on the run. Through filthy, teeming markets, forebrawler matches, a labyrinth of underground tunnels and beyond, he'll need his wits and courage to escape the forces that want to take everything he loves.
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/866740?barcode=9781909263383&title=WildAboutShapes
 Wild About Shapes by Jérémie Fischer      $29.99
...And wild about colours, too. Acetate sheets with colour overlays make animals leap out of the backgrounds as the pages are turned. Children will learn a lot about colour blending while enjoying this book.
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/1006749-WhatsforDinner80NewEasyWeeknightRecipes-9781877505652
What's for Dinner? 80 weeknight favourites by Nadia Lim      $39.99
This book is the complete package for everyone who needs to cook quick, healthy and tasty recipes during the week.
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/1008191-TheVanished-9781408860304
The Vanished by Lotte and Soren Hammer      $29.99
Lying at the bottom of his apartment stairs, a postman is found dead. At first glance, his death appears to be a tragic accident. However, when Detective Superintendent Konrad Simonsen is called to investigate, he notices that something doesn't add up. Did he fall? When life-sized images of a vanished girl are discovered plastering the walls of the dead man's attic, the case takes a new and sinister turn. Who is she? Could she be alive? Soon the homicide team find themselves delving into the past, but as they approach the truth, Simonsen is forced to confront long-hidden skeletons in his own cupboard.
"The best Danish crime fiction in years." - Lars Kepler
https://pageblackmore.circlesoft.net/products/1006275-Opposites-9781783702480
The Greatest Opposites Book on Earth by Lee Singh and Tom Frost       $33.00
An ingenious circus-themed pop-up, fold-down, pull-out book.
https://pageblackmore.circlesoft.net/products/864836-AugusteRacinet-TheCompleteCostumeHistory-9783836555401
The Complete Costume History by Auguste Racinet       $45.00
Originally published in France between 1876 and 1888, Auguste Racinet's Le Costume historique was the most wide-ranging and incisive study of clothing ever attempted. Covering the world history of costume, dress, and style from antiquity through to the end of the 19th century, the six volume Work remains completely unique in its scope and detail. All the illustrations are reproduced here.
A Midsummer's Equation by Keigo Higashino       $34.99
When a man's body is discovered at the base of some cliffs in the small resort town of Hari Cove, the police at first suspect a tragic accident, a misstep that cost the man his life. However, when the victim is found to have been a former policeman and that the cause of death was actually carbon monoxide poisoning, they begin a murder investigation.
"The Japanese Steig Larsson." - The Timeshttps://pageblackmore.circlesoft.net/products/1003426-DontbeInteresting-9780771057243





Don't Be Interesting by Jacob McArthur Mooney        $39.99
A poetry collection that grapples with 'The Future' as public morality-keeper and private reckoner. The book explores the lines dividing the present from both the future and the past. Its channels include all the breadth of mass experience, from film and sport to science fiction novels, war, history, technology, and biography.
>> He speaks Canadian


https://pageblackmore.circlesoft.net/catalog/40354-Jigsawpuzzles
We've found another source for the wonderful Pomegranate jigsaw puzzles. Come and choose one for the long weekend!













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18 March 2016

http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/1007663-Besideherself-9781869408466
Beside Herself by Chris Price        $24.99
After the expected, the unexpected.
After the unexpected, the formal handrail
and the overflow.
Price plays with received notions of character, language, voice and intention in this mischievous collection. Illustrations by the incomparable Leo Bensemann. 
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/1003636?barcode=9781776560547&title=ABeautifulHesitation
 A Beautiful Hesitation by Fiona Pardington         $69.99
A very desirable collection spanning three decades at the forefront of New Zealand art photography. Pardington's photographs are alluring and disquieting, and reward both browsing and intensive revisiting.
>> Visit the exhibition.
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/998315?barcode=9781408866115&title=InOtherWords
 In Other Words by Jhumpa Lahiri         $32.99
 Although Lahiri had studied Italian for many years, true mastery  eluded her. Seeking full immersion, she decided to move to Rome with her family, for 'a trial by fire, a sort of baptism' into a new language and world. There, she began to read and to write - initially in her journal - solely in Italian. In Other Words, an autobiographical work written in Italian and presented here alongside a translation into English by Ann Goldstein (who will be appearing at the Auckland Writers Festival in May, who will be talking with Kim Hill just after 9am on Saturday 18 March, and who is Elena Ferrante's translator), investigates the process of learning to express oneself in another language, and describes the journey of a writer seeking a new voice.
>> A linguistic orphan finds a home
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/998289-SummerBeforetheWar-9781743311288
 The Summer Before the War by Helen Simonson        $36.99
 East Sussex, 1914. It's the end of an idyllic summer and Hugh Grange, down from his medical studies, is visiting his Aunt Agatha in the pretty coastal town of Rye. Casting aside the recent sabre rattling over the Balkans, Agatha has more immediate concerns; she has just risked her carefully built reputation by pushing for the appointment of a woman to replace the Latin master. When Beatrice Nash arrives, it is clear she is significantly more free thinking.and attractive.than anyone believes a Latin teacher should be. For her part, mourning the death of her beloved father who has left her penniless, Beatrice simply wants to be left alone to pursue her teaching and writing. But just as Beatrice comes alive to the beauty of the Sussex landscape, and the colourful characters that populate Rye, the perfect summer is about to end. For despite Agatha's reassurances, the unimaginable is coming.
From the author of Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
 "Helen Simonson's characters enchant us, her English countryside beguiles us, and her historical intelligence keeps us at the edge of our seats." - Annie Barrows, author of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/1014912?barcode=9781877578717&title=InaSlantLight%3AAPoet%27sMemoir
 In a Slant Light: A poet's memoir by Cilla McQueen       $35.00
From her earliest memories, through childhood experiments with a shoe-X-ray machine, through the turbulence of teenagehood and motherhood, through her relationship with Ralph Hotere, McQueen's life is a rich source of poetic memory, all presented with her cherished lightness of touch and poignant wit.
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/1010886-ThreeWordsAnAnthologyofAotearoaNZWomensComics-9780994120502
Three Words: An anthology of Aotearoa/NZ women's comics edited by Rae Joyce, Sarah Laing and Indira Neville       $49.99
A stupendous compendium displaying a great richness and variety, much of which you will not have seen before.
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/986733-BeingaBeast-9781781255346
Being a Beast by Charles Foster          $39.99
Charles Foster wanted to know what it was like to be a beast: a badger, an otter, a deer, a fox, a swift. So he tried it out; he lived life as a badger for six weeks, sleeping in a dirt hole and eating earthworms, he came face to face with shrimps as he lived like an otter and he spent hours curled up in a back garden in East London and rooting in bins like an urban fox. This is a remarkable piece of work; Foster has captured for us the very different consciousness of wild animals in a thoroughly convincing and frequently disconcerting way. You will have a deeper appreciation for animals after having read this book. 
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/995670-TeIkaaMaoriTheStruggleforMaoriFishingRights-9781775501961
 The Struggle for Maori Fishing Rights: Te ika a Maui by Brain Bargh      $45.00
 Maori fishing rights were guaranteed by the Treaty of Waitangi, taken away by Crown actions, and, along with Maori land rights and other grievances, contested throughout the 1970s and 1980s.
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/997127?barcode=9781447293910&title=TheOtherMrsWalker
 The Other Mrs Walker by Mary Paulson-Ellis       $35.00
Somehow she'd always known that she would end like this. In a small square room, in a small square flat. In a small square box, perhaps. Cardboard, with a sticker on the outside. And a name...
An old woman dies alone and unheeded in a cold Edinburgh flat, on a snowy Christmas night. A faded emerald dress hangs in her wardrobe; a spilt glass of whisky pools on the carpet. A few days later a middle-aged woman arrives back to the city of her birth, her future uncertain, her past in tatters. But what Margaret Penny cannot yet know is that in investigating the death of one friendless old lady, her own life will become enriched beyond measure.
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/1007039-Lover-9781447271307
 Lover by Anna Raverat      $34.99
 Home is where the heart is, and Kate thinks a lot about making people feel at home. She works for a global hotel corporation. She has two young children, and a husband of ten years. Now, both Kate's home and her heart are about to implode: she has discovered a series of emails from her husband Adam to another woman. Probing for answers, she realizes this not the worst possible discovery - in fact, it is only the beginning. As her family unravels, Kate's job becomes increasingly demanding - but how can she provide the perfect guest experience when her own foundations have been knocked away?
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/1014527-TheIceShroud-9780986456442
The Ice Shroud by Gordon Ell       $34.99
When a woman's body is discovered frozen in the ice of a river near the alpine resort of Queenstown, Detective Sergeant Malcolm Buchan faces both a mystery and a moral dilemma. 
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/765607-Freud-9781907704734
 Freud by Corinne Maier and Anne Winn       $29.99
As a boy Sigmund Freud dreamed of being an explorer, of discovering new lands and sailing the oceans. As an adult he set out to map a far stranger territory: the human mind.This stunning graphic novel by economist, historian, and psychoanalyst Corrine Maier explores the life and work of one of the twentieth century's most influential thinkers.
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/994173?barcode=9781784297695&title=TheMadwomanUpstairs
The Madwoman Upstairs by Catherine Lowell       $34.99
 Think you know Charlotte, Emily Anne? Think again. Samantha Whipple is the last remaining descendent of the illustrious Bronte family. After losing her father, a brilliant author in his own right, it is up to Samantha to piece together the mysterious family inheritance lurking somewhere in her past - yet the only clues she has at her disposal are the Brontes' own novels. With the aid of her handsome but inscrutable Oxford tutor, Samantha must repurpose the tools of literature to unearth an untold family legacy, and in the process, finds herself face to face with what may be literature's greatest secret.
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/1014207?barcode=9780992251758&title=LeavingtheRedZone%3APoemsFromtheCanterburyEarthquakes
 Leaving the Red Zone: Poems from the Canterbury earthquakes edited by James Norcliffe and Joanna Preston       $39.99
The tragic quakes released a flood of creativity. Poetry tells of the impact of trauma on the human mind and gives evidence of the first tentative healing of that trauma. This anthology of work by a wide selection of well- and less-known poets stands as a monument to tragedy and resilience.
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/997284?barcode=9780500292266&title=ChineasyEveryday%3ATheWorldofChineseCharacters
 Chineasy Everyday: The world of Chinese characters by ShaoLan Hsueh     $49.99
Over 400 of the most used and useful Chinese characters, phrases and sentences, organized into eleven themes that reflect our daily lives, and bringing the stories and myths behind the characters to life. A unique perspective into Chinese history and culture (and lots of fun!).
>> A sample
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/765608?barcode=9781907704703&title=Neurocomic
 Neurocomic by Matteo Farinelli and Hana Ros       $27.99
 Do you know what your brain is made of? How does memory function? What is a neuron and how does it work? For that matter what's a comic? And in the words of Lewis Carroll's famous caterpillar: "Who are 'you'?" Neurocomic is a journey through the human brain: a place of neuron forests, memory caves, and castles of deception. Along the way, you'll encounter Boschean beasts, giant squid, guitar-playing sea slugs, and the great pioneers of neuroscience.


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 Gordon Bennett and the First Yacht Race Across the Atlantic by Sam Jefferson       $36.99
 The dawn of ocean yacht racing can be pinpointed to a drunken night at the exclusive Union Club, on Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue, in October 1866. That evening, a group of super-rich playboys of the burgeoning New York yachting scene – Pierre Lorillard, George Osgood and James Gordon Bennett Jr – gathered to drink and brag about the performance of their respective schooners. Insults and challenges were swapped, and by the time the men staggered out into the dawn in an alcohol fug they had signed up to a dangerous race across the full width of the north Atlantic in midwinter. Each owner would stump up a $30,000 stake, and the winner would take all. Gordon Bennett's extravagances were so excessive that his name became a popular expression of incredulity. 
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 Good + Simple by Jasmine Hemsley and Melissa Hemsley       $65.00
 "When it comes to healthy, nutritious, sustainable eating, they are quite simply hors pair."  - The Guardian
>> Which one of them is good (and which is simple)?
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 In Dark Places: The confessions of Teina Pora and an ex-cop's fight for justice by Michael Bennett      $34.99
 Teina Pora, a 17-year-old car thief, was wrongly convicted and sentenced to life in prison for the murder of Susan Burdett, who had been beaten to death with the softball bat she kept next to her bed for her own protection. Tim McKinnel, en ex-cop turned private investigator, discovered the long forgotten case 18 years later, saw an injustice had been done and set out to win Teina's freedom. 
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 Disaster Capitalism: Making a killing out of catastrophe by Antony Lowenstein         $32.99
Loewenstein travels across Afghanistan, Pakistan, Haiti, Papua New Guinea, the United States, Britain, Greece, and Australia and discovers how companies such as G4S, Serco, and Halliburton cash in on organized misery in a hidden world of privatized detention centers, militarized private security, aid profiteering, and destructive mining. Disaster has become big business. Talking to immigrants stuck in limbo in Britain or visiting immigration centers in America, Loewenstein maps the secret networks formed to help corporations bleed what profits they can from economic crisis. He debates with Western contractors in Afghanistan, meets the locals in post-earthquake Haiti, and in Greece finds a country at the mercy of vulture profiteers. In Papua New Guinea, he sees a local community that finds itself forced to rebel against predatory resource companies and NGOs. 
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 Hare by Jim Crumley       $22.99
A charming little book, beautifully written, giving insight into the life of a hare. 
>> Midsummer madness.
>> The Shadow of the Hare.  
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 To Explain the World: The discovery of modern science by Steven Weinberg      $32.00
Moving from ancient Miletus to medieval Baghdad to Oxford, and from the Museum of Alexandria to the Royal Society of London, Weinberg shows that the scientists of the past not only did not understand what we understand about the world - they did not understand what there was to understand. 
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 Here Lies Hugh Glass: A mountain man, a bear and the rise of the American nation by Jon T. Coleman       $27.99
 In the summer of 1823, a grizzly bear mauled Hugh Glass. The animal ripped the trapper up, carving huge hunks from his body. Glass' companions slew the bear, but his injuries mocked their first aid. Two men would stay behind to bury the corpse when it finally stopped gurgling; the rest would move on. Alone in Indian country, the caretakers quickly lost their nerve. They fled, taking Glass's gun, knife, and ammunition with them. But Glass wouldn't die. He began crawling toward Fort Kiowa, hundreds of miles to the east, and as his speed picked up, so did his ire. The men who took his gear and left him to rot were going to pay!
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 Olivia & Sophia by Rosie Milne       $27.99
A historical novel taking the form of two diaries of Sir Stamford Raffles' two wives: Olivia and Sophia. 
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 The Modern Natural Dyer: A comprehensive guide to dying silk, wool, linen and cotton at home by Kristine Vejar       $45.00
Easy to follow and with excellent formulae and guides to achieving just the rights hues and shades.
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A Curious Friendship: The story of a Bluestocking and a Bright Young Thing by Anna Thomasson      $27.99
 The winter of 1924: Edith Olivier, alone for the first time at the age of 51, thought her life had come to an end. For Rex Whistler, a 19-year-old art student, life was just beginning. They were to start an intimate and unlikely friendship that would transform their lives. Gradually Edith's world opened up and she became a writer. Her home, the Daye House, in a wooded corner of the Wilton estate, became a sanctuary for Whistler and the other brilliant and beautiful younger men of her circle: among them Siegfried Sassoon, Stephen Tennant, William Walton, John Betjeman, the Sitwells and Cecil Beaton - for whom she was 'all the muses'. 
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 Maestra by L.S. Hilton        $32.99
Judith Rashleigh works as an assistant in a prestigious London auction house, but her dreams of breaking into the art world have been gradually dulled by the blunt forces of snobbery and corruption. To make ends meet she moonlights as a hostess in one of the West End's less salubrious bars - although her work there pales against her activities on nights off. When Judith stumbles across a conspiracy at her auction house, she is fired before she can expose the fraud. In desperation, she accepts an offer from one of the bar's clients to accompany him to the French Riviera. But when an ill-advised attempt to slip him sedatives has momentous consequences, Judith finds herself fleeing for her life. Now alone and in danger, all Judith has to rely on is her consummate ability to fake it amongst the rich and famous - and the inside track on the hugely lucrative art fraud that triggered her dismissal.
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 A Nation and Not a Rabble: The Irish Revolution, 1913-1923 by Diarmaid Ferriter      $29.99
 Packed with violence, political drama and social and cultural upheaval, the years 1913-1923 saw the emergence in Ireland of the Ulster Volunteer Force to resist Irish home rule and in response, the Irish Volunteers, who would later evolve into the IRA. World War One, the rise of Sinn Fein, intense Ulster unionism and conflict with Britain culminated in the Irish war of Independence, which ended with a compromise Treaty with Britain and then the enmities and drama of the Irish Civil War.
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 Planting in a Post-Wild World by Thomas Rainer and Claudia West        $89.99
A guide to designed plantings that function like naturally occurring plant communities.
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 The Great New Zealand Baking Book      $49.99
Sixty bakers share their favourite recipes and reveal the sweet richness of New Zealand baking traditions.