Gerald's Party by Robert Coover
$30.00 NZD
Category: FICTION
Ros is dead. A bad actress but a tremendous lover, when she was alive her thighs pillowed cast members, crew, friends and acquaintances. Now Gerald's party continues around her murdered corpse (it is, after all, just the first of the night), as the guests indulge in drinking, flirting and jealousies, an ...Show more
Munkey Diaries by Jane Birkin
$37.99 NZD
Category: GENERAL NON-FICTION
Jane Birkin - actor, singer, songwriter and model - attained international fame with her decade-long musical and personal relationship with Serge Gainsbourg, which featured their internationally controversial hit song 'Je t'aime...moi no plus'. She has also enjoyed a notable career as an actress in Brit ...Show more
Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens
$19.99 NZD
Category: FICTION | Series: Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The greed of his family has led wealthy old Martin Chuzzle wit to become suspicious and misanthropic, leaving his grandson and namesake to make his own way in the world. And so young Martin sets out from the Wiltshire home of his supposed champion, the scheming architect Pecksniff, to seek his fortune i ...Show more
Butcher's Crossing by John Williams
$26.00 NZD
Category: FICTION | Reading Level: very good
This is by the author of Stoner. Will Andrews is no academic. He longs for wildness, freedom, hope and vigour. He leaves Harvard and sets out for the West to discover a new way of living. In a small town called Butcher's Crossing he meets a hunter with a story of a lost herd of buffalo in a remote Color ...Show more
A High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes
$26.99 NZD
Category: FICTION | Series: Vintage classics
On the high seas of the Caribbean, a family of English children is set loose âe" sent by their parents from their home in Jamaica to receive the civilising effects of England. When their ship is captured by pirates, the thrilling cruise continues as the children transfer their affections from one batch ...Show more
Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within by Natalie Goldberg
$37.00 NZD
Category: GENERAL NON-FICTION
For more than twenty years Natalie Goldberg has been challenging and cheering on writers with her books and workshops. In her groundbreaking first book, she brings together Zen meditation and writing in a new way. Writing practice, as she calls it, is no different from other forms of Zen practice--"it i ...Show more
Antarctica by Moira Court
$30.00 NZD
Category: FICTION
Antarctica - an icy desert with mountain ranges and sleeping volcanoes, home to the spinning end of the earth and to a diverse array of quirky creatures. From the artist who brought us My Superhero and Colour Me, Moira Court brings Antarctica to life in this gorgeous new picture book, combining clever c ...Show more
Wichita Lineman by Dylan Jones
$32.99 NZD
Category: GENERAL NON-FICTION | Series: Faber Social Ser.
Dylan Jones' luminous excavation of Jimmy Webb's song 'Wichita Lineman' offers a portal into a defining moment of American cultural history. The sound of Wichita Lineman was the sound of ecstatic solitude - but then its hero was the quintessential loner. What a great metaphor he was: a man who needed a ...Show more
Rise and Shine by Patrick Allington
$35.00 NZD
Category: FICTION
Each morning, the last humans start their day with graphic footage from the front. This is what sustains them - literally. In a world where eight billion souls have perished, the survivors huddle together apart, perpetually at war, in the city-states of Rise and Shine. Yet this war, far from representin ...Show more
Living & Caring: A Guide for Carers and People with Parkinson's by Ann Andrews & Jennifer Dann
$39.99 NZD
Category: GENERAL NON-FICTION
This book is for people with Parkinson’s and the people who care for them. It draws on the personal experiences of over forty people living with Parkinson’s in the hope that sharing their journeys may help readers navigate theirs. Living and Caring is designed to be read once Parkinson’s has progressed ...Show more