Everything I Know About Books: An insider look at publishing in Aotearoa by Edited by Odessa Owens and Theresa Crewdson
$35.00 NZD
Category: Literature & the Arts
A wide range of publishers, illustrators, poets, publicists, designers and award-winning authors such as Ashleigh Young, Anahera Gildea, Michael Bennett, Paula Morris, Selina Tusitala Marsh discuss their writing. Covering a blend of genres, including advice, poems, listicles, creative insights, graphi ...Show more
Always Italicise: How to Write While Colonised by Alice Te Punga Somerville
$25.00 NZD
Category: Aotearoa NZ | Reading Level: near fine
A first book of poetry from acclaimed Māori writer and scholar Alice Te Punga Somerville. Shrink-wrapped, vacuum-packed, disassembled, sold for parts,butt of jokes, scapegoats, too this for that, too that for this,gravy trains, too angry, special treatment, let it go . . . ‘Always italicise foreign wor ...Show more
Palestine: A Four Thousand Year History by Nur Masalha
$25.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
This rich and magisterial work traces Palestine's millennia-old heritage, uncovering cultures and societies of astounding depth and complexity that stretch back to the very beginnings of recorded history.Starting with the earliest references in Egyptian and Assyrian texts, Nur Masalha explores how Pales ...Show more
An African History of Africa: From the Dawn of Civilisation to Independence by Zeinab Badawi
$40.00 NZD
Category: History
Zeinab Badawi, award-winning broadcaster and President of SOAS, tells an epic story of the oldest inhabited continent in the world from an African perspective, for fans of William Dalrymple, David Olusoga and Peter Frankopan.*Selected as a book to look out for in 2024 by the Guardian* Everyone is origi ...Show more
So Late in the Day by Claire Keegan
$23.00 NZD
Category: General | Reading Level: very good-near fine
An exquisite new short story from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Small Things Like These and Foster. 'A genuine once-in-a-generation writer.' - The Times 'Every word is the right word in the right place, and the effect is resonant and deeply moving.' - Hilary Mantel 'Claire Keegan makes her mome ...Show more
Night School by Michael Steven
$25.00 NZD
Category: Aotearoa NZ | Reading Level: very good
Winner of the Kathleen Grattan Poetry Award 2021, poet Michael Steven's Night School explores the gap between fathers and sons, the effects of toxic masculinity, how power corrupts and corrodes, and whether weed, art and aroha can save us in a godless world.
Prophet Song by Paul Lynch
$25.00 NZD
Category: General
BOOKER PRIZE WINNER 2023 A fearless portrait of a society on the brink as a mother faces a terrible choice, from an internationally award-winning author . On a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother-of-four Eilish Stack answers her front door to find the GNSB on her step. Two officers from ...Show more
Red Memory: The Afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution by Tania Branigan
$28.00 NZD
Category: History
An indelible exploration of the Cultural Revolution and how it shapes China today, Red Memory uncovers forty years of silence through the rarely heard stories of individuals who lived through Mao's decade of madness. SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2023WINNER OF THE CUNDILL HIS ...Show more
My Name Is Lucy Barton: From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
$24.00 NZD
Category: General | Series: #1 | Reading Level: very good
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A simple hospital visit becomes a portal to the tender relationship between mother and daughter in this extraordinary novel by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Olive Kitteridge and The Burgess Boys. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post * The N ...Show more
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