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Fiction
The Buried Giant
By Kazuo Ishiguro
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This is an extraordinary new novel from the author of Never Let Me Go and the Booker Prize winning The Remains of the
Day. ‘You’ve long set your heart against it, Axl, I know. But it’s time now to think on it anew. There’s a journey we must go
on, and no more delay...’ The Buried Giant begins as a couple set off across a troubled land of mist and rain in the hope
of finding a son they have not seen in years. Sometimes savage, often intensely moving, Kazuo Ishiguro’s first novel in a
decade is about lost memories, love, revenge and war.
Second Life
By S J Watson
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How well can you really know another person? And how far would you go to find out the truth about them? When Julia
learns that her sister has been violently killed, she knows she must get to the bottom of things. Even if it means jeopardising
her relationship with her husband and risking the safety of her son. Getting involved with a stranger online. Losing
control. Perhaps losing everything. Set in Paris and London, Second Life is about the double lives people lead. Tense and
unrelenting, it is another brilliant novel from S. J. Watson.
The Book of Gold Leaves
By Mirza Waheed
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Mirza Waheed’s extraordinary new novel The Book of Gold Leaves is a heartbreaking love story set in war-torn Kashmir. In
an ancient house in the city of Srinagar, Faiz paints exquisite Papier Mache pencil boxes for tourists. Evening is beginning
to slip into night when he sets off for the shrine. There he finds the woman with the long black hair. Roohi is prostrate before
her God. She begs for the boy of her dreams to come and take her away. An age-old tale of love, war, temptation, duty
and choice, The Book of Gold Leaves is a heartbreaking tale of a what might have been, what could have been, if only.
A Spool of Blue Thread
By Anne Tyler
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‘It was a beautiful, breezy, yellow-and-green afternoon...’ This is the way Abby Whitshank always begins the story of how
she and Red fell in love that day in July 1959. The whole family on the porch, relaxed, half-listening as their mother tells
the same tale they have heard so many times before. From that porch we spool back through three generations of the
Whitshanks, witnessing the events, secrets and unguarded moments that have come to define who and what they are. And
while all families like to believe they are special, round that kitchen table over all those years we see played out the hopes
and fears, the rivalries and tensions of families everywhere - the essential nature of family life.
Daughter
By Jane Shemilt
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‘I still don’t know why we had to check. Did we really think you would be there, curled up and sleeping on the stage? That
we would put our arms round you, and take you home?’ Naomi has vanished, leaving her family broken and her mother
Jenny desperately searching for answers. But the traces fifteen year-old Naomi’s left behind reveal a very different girl to the
one Jenny thought she’d raised. And the more she looks the more she learns that everyone she trusted has been keeping
secrets.But will discovering the real Naomi help to find her?
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Volcano Street
By David Rain
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“What would Germaine do?’ This is the mantra that Skip and Marlo Wells turn to as they navigate their way through the
twists and turns that life brings. Marlo puts her faith in her hero, Germaine Greer, and twelve-year-old Skip trusts her clever
big sister to know the right thing to do. But when the sisters are forced to move to their Auntie Noreen and Uncle Doug’s
home in Crater Lakes even Marlo can’t think of a solution. At age sixteen, Marlo is forced to quit school and work in the
family hardware store. Skip manages to get on her auntie’s bad side and is an outcast at school as she vehemently declares
the injustice of the Vietnam War. Against the backdrop of a broken home, the fight for equality and a far off war Volcano
Street is a heartfelt tale of acceptance and belonging.
Not Forgetting The Whale
By John Ironmonger
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When a young man washes up, naked, on the sands of St Piran in Cornwall, he is quickly rescued by the villagers. From
the retired village doctor and the schoolteacher, to the priest’s wife and the romantic novelist, they take this lost soul into
their midst. But what the villagers don’t know is that Joe Haak has fled the City of London fearing a worldwide collapse of
civilisation, a collapse forecast by Cassie, a computer program he designed. Can Joe convince the village to seal itself off
from the outside world? And what of the whale that lurks in the bay? Intimate, funny and deeply moving, Not Forgetting
The Whale is the story of a man on a journey to find a place he can call home.
Em and the Big Hoom
By Jerry Pinto
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In a tiny flat in Bombay Imelda Mendes - Em to her family - is by turns flamboyant, maniacally affectionate and cruelly
candid. Her husband - Augustine, the ‘Big Hoom’ - and two children must endure her ‘microweathers’: swings from searing
joy to brooding malevolence. And here is the story of how this family of four came to be. Of how Imelda was courted by
Augustine - ‘Hello, Buttercup’ - and of how with the passage of time and the arrival of her children she slowly turned into
Em, loving and loathing a world terrified of her extravagant excesses.
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Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances
By Neil Gaiman
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In this new volume, Neil Gaiman pierces the veil of reality to reveal the enigmatic, shadowy world that lies beneath. Trigger
Warning includes previously published pieces of short fiction-stories, verse, and a very special Doctor Who story that was
written for the fiftieth anniversary of the series in 2013. A writer whose creative genius is unparalleled, Gaiman entrances
with his literary alchemy, transporting us deep into the realm of imagination, where the fantastical becomes real and the
everyday incandescent. Trigger Warning engages the mind, stirs the heart, and shakes the soul.
The Anchoress
By Robyn Cadwallader
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Set in the twelfth century, The Anchoress tells the story of Sarah, only seventeen when she chooses to become an anchoress,
a holy woman shut away in a small cell, at the side of the village church. Fleeing the grief of losing a much-loved sister in
childbirth and the pressure to marry, she decides to renounce the world, with all its dangers and temptations, and to commit
herself to a life of prayer and service to God. But as she slowly begins to understand, even the thick, unforgiving walls of
her cell cannot keep the outside world away, and it is soon clear that Sarah’s body and soul are still in great danger...
The Sacrifice
By Joyce Carol Oates
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When a fourteen-year-old girl is the alleged victim of a terrible act of racial violence, the incident shocks and galvanises
her community, exacerbating the racial tension that has been simmering in this New Jersey town for decades. In this novel,
Joyce Carol Oates explores the uneasy fault lines in a racially troubled society. In such a charged atmosphere, Oates
reveals that there must always be a sacrifice - of innocence, truth, trust, and, ultimately, of lives. Unfolding in a succession
of multiracial voices, in a community transfixed by this alleged crime and the spectacle unfolding around it, this profound
novel exposes what - and who - the “sacrifice” actually is.
Tales of the Marvellous and News of the Strange
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On the shrouded corpse hung a tablet of green topaz with the inscription: ‘I am Shaddad the Great. I conquered a
thousand cities; a thousand white elephants were collected for me; I lived for a thousand years and my kingdom covered
both east and west, but when death came to me nothing of all that I had gathered was of any avail’. Dating from at least
a millennium ago, these are the earliest known Arabic short stories, surviving in a single, ragged manuscript in a library
in Istanbul. Tales of the Marvellous and News of the Strange has monsters, lost princes, jewels beyond price, a princess
turned into a gazelle, sword-wielding statues and shocking reversals of fortune.
Holy Cow
By David Duchovny
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Elsie Bovary is a cow and a pretty happy one at that. Until one night, Elsie sneaks out of the pasture and finds herself drawn
to the farmhouse. Through the window, she sees the farmer’s family gathered around a bright Box God - and what the Box
God reveals about something called an ‘industrial meat farm’ shakes Elsie’s understanding of her world to its core. The only
solution? To escape to a better, safer world. And so a motley crew is formed: Elsie; Shalom, a grumpy pig who’s recently
converted to Judaism; and Tom, a suave turkey who can’t fly, but can work an iPhone with his beak.
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Seventh Day
By Yu Hua
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Yang Fei was born on a moving train, lost by his mother, adopted by a young switchman and raised with simplicity and love
- utterly unprepared for the changes that await him and his country. At 41, he meets an unceremonious death, and lacking
the money for a burial plot, must roam the afterworld aimlessly. There, over the course of seven days, he encounters the
souls of people he’s lost, and as he retraces the path of his life, we meet an extraordinary cast of characters. This searing
novel affirms Yu Hua’s place as the standard-bearer of Chinese fiction.
Mobile Library
By David Whitehouse
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Twelve-year-old Bobby Nusku is an archivist of his mother. He catalogues traces of her life and waits for her to return home.
Bobby thinks that he’s been left to face the world alone until he meets lonely single mother Val and her daughter Rosa. They
spend a magical summer together, discovering the books in the mobile library where Val works as a cleaner. Quirky, dark,
magical and full of heart, Mobile Library is both a tragicomic road trip and a celebration of the adventures that books can
take us on. It’s a love-letter to unlikely families and the stories that shaped us.
Poems
By Iain Banks / Ken MacLeod
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Readers of Iain’s novels will find in these poems many aspects of his writing with which they’re already familiar: a humane
and materialist sensibility, an unflinching stare at the damage people can do to each other, a warm appreciation of the joy
they can give to each other, a revel in language, a geologically informed gaze on land and sea, a continued meditation
on what it means for us to be mortal embodied minds with a fleeting but consequent existence between abysses of deep
time. Ken MacLeod, Iain’s long-time friend and collaborator, has collected his poems according to his wishes, and they are
published here - most for the first time - alongside a selection of Ken’s own poetry.
General
Non - Fiction
I Am Not Here To Give a Speech
By Gabriel Garcia Marquez
RRP $30.00 UBS PRICE $27.00
Penguin presents I Am Not Here to Give a Speech, the complete speeches of Nobel laureate and beloved novelist Gabriel
Garcia Marquez collected and published in English for the first time.
His talent for language is seen here as never before, in the public speeches he gave throughout his extraordinary life. These
speeches chart Marquez’s growth as a writer and orator, from an early talk given as a teenager graduating high school to
his acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize.
The Happy Reader
By Penguin Classics
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The concept of the magazine is excitingly simple: the first half is a long-form interview with a notable book fanatic and the
second half explores one Penguin Classics title from an array of surprising and invigorating angles, through fashion, art,
lifestyle, history, film and more. The Happy Reader never patronizes, nor does it seek to baffle its audience with literary
name-dropping or pedantry, wearing its bookish curiosity with a playful lightness of touch, delighting in the potential for
whimsy and humour.
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The Third Plate
By Dan Barber
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Based on ten years of surveying farming communities around the world, top New York chef Dan Barber’s The Third Plate
offers a radical new way of thinking about food that will heal the land and taste incredible. The ‘first plate’ was a classic
meal centred on a large cut of meat with few vegetables. On the ‘second plate’, championed by the farm-to-table movement,
meat is free-range and vegetables are locally sourced. It’s better-tasting, and better for the planet, but the second plate’s
architecture is identical to that of the first. It, too, disrupts ecological balances, causing soil depletion and nutrient loss. The
‘third plate’ offers a solution: an integrated system of vegetable, cereal and livestock production that is fully supported by
what we choose to cook for dinner.
Girls Will Be Girls
By Emer O’Toole
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Being a woman is, largely, about performance - how we dress and modify our bodies, what we say, the roles we play,
and how we conform to expectations. Gender stereotypes are still deeply embedded in our society, but Emer O’Toole is
on a mission to re-write the old script and bend the rules of gender. Exploring what it means to ‘act like a girl’, Emer takes
us on a hilarious and thought-provoking journey through her life (including singing ‘Get Your Pits Out for the Lads’ on
national TV after growing out her body hair). Cross-dressing, booty-shaking, sexual disasters, family dinners and full-body
waxing are all lovingly dissected in search of wisdom. With academic intelligence and laugh-out-loud humour, this book
will revolutionise the way that you think about gender.
The Unknown Universe
By Stuart Clark
RRP $39.99 UBS PRICE $35.99
On 21 March 2013, the European Space Agency released a map of the afterglow of the Big Bang. Taking in 440
sextillion kilometres of space and 13.8 billion years of time, it is physically impossible to make a better map: we will never
see the early Universe in more detail. On the one hand, such a view is the apotheosis of modern cosmology, on the other,
it threatens to undermine almost everything we hold cosmologically sacrosanct. The map contains anomalies that challenge
our understanding of the Universe. It will force us to revisit what is known and what is unknown, to construct a new model
of our Universe. This is the first book to address what will be an epoch-defining scientific paradigm shift.
Lives in Writing
By David Lodge
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Writing about real lives takes various forms, which overlap and may be combined with each other: biography, autobiography,
biographical criticism, biographical fiction, memoir, confession, diary. In these thoughtful and enlightening essays David
Lodge considers some particularly interesting examples of life-writing, and contributes several of his own. The subjects
include celebrated modern British writers such as Graham Greene, Kingsley Amis, Muriel Spark and Alan Bennett, and
two major figures from the past, Anthony Trollope and H.G.Wells.
Finding Zero
By Amir D Aczel
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Finding Zero is an adventure filled saga of Amir Aczel’s lifelong obsession: to find the original sources of our numerals.
Aczel has doggedly crisscrossed the ancient world, scouring dusty texts, cross examining so-called scholars and ultimately
penetrating deep into a Cambodian jungle to find a definitive proof. The history begins with the early Babylonian cuneiform
numbers, followed by the later Greek and Roman letter numerals. Then Aczel asks the key question: where do the numbers
we use today, the so-called Hindu-Arabic numerals, come from? It is this search that leads him to explore uncharted
territory, to go on a grand quest into India, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, and ultimately into the wilds of Cambodia.
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Rush Hour: How 500 Million Commuters Survive the Daily Journey
to Work
By Iain Gately
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Each working day 500 million people across the planet experience the miracle and misery of commuting. Whether
undertaken by car, bus, train or bicycle, the practice shapes our days and creates a time for a surprisingly diverse
range of activities. In Rush Hour, Iain Gately traces the past, present and future of commuting, from the age of Dickens
to the potential of the driverless car. He examines the contrasting experiences of commuters in Britain and elsewhere in
the world: from the crush-loaded salarymen of the Tokyo metro to the road-rage afflicted middle managers of America.
Notwithstanding its occasional traumas, commuting emerges as a positive aspect of modern life. It has dictated the growth
of cities; been proving ground for new technologies; and given countless people freedom of movement and the opportunity
to improve their lives.
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
By Bryan Stevenson
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A powerful, bold true story about the potential for mercy to redeem us from one of the most brilliant and influential lawyers
of our time. The US has the highest rate of incarceration in the world. One in every 15 people is expected to go to prison.
For black men, the most incarcerated group in America, this figure rises to one out of every three. Bryan Stevenson grew
up a member of a poor black community in the racially segregated South. He was a young lawyer when he founded the
Equal Justice Initiative, a legal practice dedicated to defending those most desperate and in need. Just Mercy is at once
an unforgettable account of an idealistic, gifted lawyer’s coming of age, a moving portrait of the lives of those he has
defended, and an inspiring argument for compassion in the pursuit of justice.
Science for Life: A Manual for Better Living
By Brian Clegg
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In Science for Life acclaimed science writer Brian Clegg cuts through the vested interests and confusing contradictory
statements that litter the media and the internet, to give a clear picture of what science is telling us right now about
changing our lives for the better. Discover the much-advertised antioxidants that aren’t good for you, the truth about fat and
sugar and why one of the healthiest foods contains carcinogens and 21 E-numbers. Find out what does and what doesn’t
enhance brainpower - from the failure of playing Mozart to babies to the surprising abilities of caffeine and nicotine.
Understand the tools that advertisers use to persuade us and how to turn the psychological pressure back on them. From
the shortcomings of the five second rule to the truth about phone masts and nuclear power, kept up-to-date on a partnering
website, Science for Life is your guide to surviving and thriving in the modern world.
Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs
By Johann Hari
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As strange as it may seem at first, drugs are not what we have been told they are; addiction is not what we think it is; and
the drug war has very different motives to the ones we have seen on our TV screens. In Chasing the Scream, Hari reveals
his startling discoveries entirely through the true and shocking stories of people across the world whose lives have been
transformed by this war. They range from a transsexual crack dealer in Brooklyn searching for her mother, to a teenage
hit-man in Mexico searching for a way out. It begins with Hari’s discovery that at the birth of the drug war, Billie Holiday
was stalked and killed by the man who launched this crusade - while it ends with the story of a brave doctor who has led
his country to decriminalize every drug, from cannabis to crack, with remarkable results. Chasing the Scream lays bare
what we really have been chasing in our century of drug war - in our hunger for drugs, and in our attempt to destroy them.
This book will challenge and change how you think about the most controversial - and consequential - question of our time.
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The Wild Life of Our Body: Predators, Parasites, and Partners That
Shape Who We Are Today
By Rob Dunn
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To modern humans, nature is the landscape outside. Biologist Rob Dunn contends that while “clean living” has benefited
us in some ways, it has also made us sicker in others. We are trapped in bodies that evolved to deal with the dependable
presence of hundreds of other species. This disconnect from the web of life has resulted in unprecedented effects that
immunologists, evolutionary biologists, psychologists, and other scientists are only beginning to understand.
Dunn considers this crossroads at which we find ourselves. Through the stories of visionaries, Dunn argues that we can
create a richer nature, one in which we choose to surround ourselves with species that benefit us, not just those that, despite
us, survive.
My History
By Antonia Fraser
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The title of Antonia Fraser’s memoir of growing up has a double meaning. It is partly an attempt to recapture the experiences
of her Oxford childhood and youth - in Shakespeare’s phrase, to ‘call back yesterday, bid time return’. But it is also intended
as a chronicle of the progress of her love of history since her first discovery of it as a private pleasure when she was a child
in the 1930s - her history, as she believed it to be, for the study of history (as her books subsequently attest) has always
been an essential part of the enjoyment of life. When Antonia received as a Christmas present a copy of Our Island Story
by H.E. Marshall, it engendered a lifelong interest in history.
Stuffocation: Living More With Less
By James Wallman
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In this brilliant and original book, James Wallman explains and analyses why Stuffocation is the most pressing problem of
our time - and then goes in search of its solution. On the way, he goes down the halls of the Elysee Palace with Nicolas
Sarkozy, up in a helicopter above Barbra Streisand’s house on the California coast, and into the world of the original Mad
Men. Through fascinating characters and brilliantly told stories, Wallman introduces the innovators whose lifestyles provide
clues to how we will all be living tomorrow, and he makes some of the world’s most counter-intuitive, radical, and worldchanging ideas feel inspiring - and possible for us all.
Puglia
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Puglia is the latest title in the Silver Spoon regional cookbook series, building on the success of Tuscany and SicilyIt offers
more than 50 recipes from the region with the longest coastline in Italy, bountiful olive groves and the ideal climate for
produce - the area is Italy’s best-kept culinary secret. All-new, authentic and easy-to-follow recipes include simple antipasti
(stuffed aubergine rolls), classic pasta dishes (strascinati with tomato sauce) and delicious desserts (chocolate with figs).
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Severed: A History of Heads Lost and Heads Found
By Frances Larson
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Over the centuries, human heads have decorated our churches, festooned our city walls and filled our museums. Long
regarded as objects of fascination and repulsion, they have been props for artists and specimens for laboratory scientists,
trophies for soldiers and items of barter. Today, as videos of decapitations circulate online and scientists promise the
wealthy among us that our heads may one day live on without our bodies, the severed head is as contentious and
compelling as ever.
Goebbels
By Peter Longerich
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Goebbels became one of Hitler’s most loyal acolytes and his named successor, following in the fuhrer’s footsteps to the
very end in a grisly mass suicide of himself and his entire family. Although Goebbels wielded considerable power within
the Nazi party and in wartime Germany, Longerich reveals him as a man dogged by his insecurities and consumed by his
fierce adherence to the Nazi cause. Challenging the carefully constructed self-portrait that Goebbels left as his legacy in
his diaries, Longerich delves deep into the mind of the Reich’s master propagandist to provide a shocking first-hand account
of how the Nazi message was conceived.
Why Religion is Immoral: And Other Interventions
By Christopher Hitchens
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Why Religion is Immoral brings together Hitchens’ most vigorous and memorable interventions in the debate that followed
publication of God is Not Great, including ‘Why Religion Poisons Everything’, ‘Is Islam a Religion of Peace?’ and ‘The
Tyranny of Censorship’. It also includes celebrations of the pleasures of drinking, and of the writers whose lives and work
most influenced his own. No matter the subject, all of Hitchens’ arguments ultimately point to the same end: freedom from
tyranny in any and all forms. Hitchens had a gift for lifting his audiences with his passionate voice, the moral urgency of
his attacks, the bite and complexity of his wit, and the swagger of his lyrical soliloquies. He was a literary phenomenon
who comes but once in a generation, and in this new collection we see the unequalled public speaker whose arguments
continue to provoke public debate.
A Space Traveller’s Guide to the Solar System
By Mark Thompson
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What would it be like to tour the Solar System, visiting the Sun and the planets, taking in everything from moons to asteroid
belts along the way? What would you see, and how would you feel? What would you eat? How would you navigate and
produce fuel? How would you survive? On this epic voyage of discovery, astronomer Mark Thompson takes you on that
journey. From how to prepare for take-off and the experience of leaving Earth’s atmosphere, to the reality of living in the
confines of a spaceship and the strange sensation of weightlessness, this is an adventure like no other. Suit up, strap in
and enjoy the ride.
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New Zealand
Waitangi Day: The New Zealand Story
By Phillipa Werry
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Aimed at younger readers but providing an excellent resource for the whole family, this new book looks at the rich history
behind Waitangi Day, universally recognised as New Zealand’s national day.
Historic and colour photographs portray the numerous historic sites in and around the Bay of Islands which have relevance
to the Waitangi story, and record the politics of change that led to formal recognition of The Waitangi Day Act in 1976.
An engaging informative text gives children a well balanced view of the significance of and background to Waitangi Day.
Asians and the New Multiculturalism in Aotearoa New Zealand
By Gautam Ghosh / Jacqueline Leckie
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This collection examining Asian communities in Aotearoa highlights the unresolved tensions between a dynamic biculturalism
and the recognition of other ethnic minorities that are increasingly asserting themselves. Multiculturalism and Asian-ness
are addressed together for the first time in this articulate addition to the ongoing debate about the population diversity of
Aotearoa New Zealand.
The Cat’s Out of the Bag: Truth and Lies About Cats
By Max Cryer
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In this witty and entertaining book, Max Cryer celebrates cats and all they have given to us. He describes the many words
and expressions they have inspired, from ‘catnip’ and ‘catwalk’ to ‘the cat’s whiskers’ and ‘raining cats and dogs’. The cats
owned by famous celebrities are described, from Elizabeth Taylor’s ‘Jeepers Creepers’ to Dr Johnson’s ‘Hodge’. In other
chapters he explores cats’ attributes, the strength of their night vision and sense of smell, and much more. Surprising facts
- and spurious fictions - can be found on almost every page.
Whale Years
By Gregory O’Brien
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Between 2011 and 2014, poet and artist Gregory O’Brien found himself following the migratory routes of whales and
seabirds across vast tracts of the South Pacific Ocean, resulting in work that O’Brien describes as acts of devotion a
homage to a series of remarkable locations and to the natural histories of those places. From Waihi looking east and
Valparaiso looking west, O’Brien surveys the cultural heart and health of an ocean in memorable, musical, moving lines.
The Chimes
By Anna Smaill
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A mind-expanding literary debut composed of memory, music and imagination. A boy stands on the roadside on his way
to London, alone in the rain. No memories, beyond what he can hold in his hands at any given moment. No directions, as
written words have long since been forbidden. No parents - just a melody that tugs at him, a thread to follow. A song that
says if he can just get to the capital, he may find some answers about what happened to them. The world around Simon
sings, each object weaving its own melody, music ringing in every drop of air.
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The New Zealand Wars and the Victorian Interpretation of Racial Conflict
By James Belich
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Revealing the enormous tactical and military skill of Maori, and the inability of ‘Victorian interpretation’ to acknowledge
those qualities, Belich’s account of the New Zealand Wars offered a very different picture from the one previously given in
historical works. Maori, in Belich’s view, won the Northern War and stalemated the British in the Taranaki War of 1860-61
only to be defeated by 18,000 British troops in the Waikato War of 1863-64. The secret of effective Maori resistance was
an innovative military system, the modern pa: a trench-and-bunker fortification of a sophistication not achieved in Europe
until 1915.
First published in 1986, James Belich’s groundbreaking book reshaped our understanding of the ‘bitter and bloody
struggles’ between Maori and Pakeha in the New Zealand Wars.
show us Queen Victoria as she’s never been seen before.
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House Held Up By Trees
By Ted Kooser / John Klassen
RRP $18.99 UBS PRICE $17.09
When the house was new, not a single tree remained on its perfect lawn to give shade from the sun. The children in the
house trailed the scent of wild trees to neighbouring lots, where thick bushes offered secret places to play. When the
children grew up and moved away, their father continued his battle against blowing seeds, plucking out sprouting trees
- until one day he, too, moved away. Then, as the empty house began its decline, the trees began to take over. At once
wistful and exhilarating, this moving story evokes the awe-inspiring power of nature to lift us up.
The Game of Tops and Tails
By Herve Tullet
RRP $15.99 UBS PRICE $14.39
Herve Tullet is one of the world’s most innovative children’s authors and has won numerous awards. Known in France
as ‘the prince of preschool books’, Tullet takes the concept of reading to a new level, teaching young minds to think
imaginatively, independently and creatively. The Game of Top and Tails is an exciting mix and match game for children
with hundreds of fun top and bottom combinations - a man can hold up a truck, an elephant can stand on a house and a
camel can carry a mountain... or the opposite!
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Where Is Pim?
By Lena Landstrom
RRP $34.99 UBS PRICE $31.49
Pom is playing with Pim, until suddenly Pim disappears! Pom and the dog look everywhere. Where is Pim? A wonderfully
simple story for toddlers, told with few words, humour, unique illustrations, and heart. A perfect companion book to
Where’s Spot? and Knuffle Bunny. The first book about these characters, Pom and Pim, received a starred review in Kirkus:
‘A perfect primer for the existential philosophy required for a small one to make it through the day’.
I Am Henry Finch
By Alexis Deacon
RRP $27.99 UBS PRICE $25.19
This is the story of Henry Finch the loveable little bird who strives for greatness, gets it all a bit wrong, then makes it right
again in a very surprising way. Henry Finch is a total inspiration. This is an inspirational book. It is also very funny. I Am
Henry Finch is a book for everyone - from the very young to the very old. It is for dreamers, philosophers, artists, the foolish
and the enlightened. Vegetarians will love it too. A profound picture book experience told with simplicity and style.
Little Tug
By Stephen Savage
RRP $19.99 UBS PRICE $17.99
Little Tug may not be very tall or very fast, but when the big ships in the harbor need help, they know they can count on him
to be there with a push, a pull, and a ride to safety. But what happens when Little Tug gets tired? This simple, endearing
book with a charming retro feel and an emotional punch is the first book for Roaring Brook Press by the acclaimed author
of Polar Bear Night (New York Times Best Illustrated book).
Cinderella or the Little Glass Slipper
By Charles Perrault / Camille Rose Garcia
RRP $27.99 UBS PRICE $25.19
Garcia’s Alices Adventures in Wonderland was a New York Times bestseller and won an award for its jacket design at the
New York Book Show. Snow White won an award from HOW magazine for its illustration and design. Cinderella is one
of the most beloved and best known fairytales of all time. Perfect for fans of the story, collectors of illustrated fairy tales,
lovers of graphic novels, beautiful graphic design, and popular culture.
Writer to Writer: From Think to Ink
By Gail Carson Levine
RRP $24.99 UBS PRICE $22.49
Have you ever wanted to captivate readers with a great opening, create fantastical creatures, realize a dastardly villain,
or make your characters leap off the page? If you answered yes to any of these questions, Gail Carson Levine can help
you achieve your goals. Drawing from her popular blog, the Newbery Honor author answers readers’ questions and dives
into how to make a story come alive. If you’re interested in writing prose and poetry or just want to be a better and more
rounded writer, this book will help you on your creative journey.
Wanted: Ralfy Rabbit, Book Burglar!
By Emily MacKenzie
RRP $19.99 UBS PRICE $17.99
Some rabbits dream about lettuces and carrots, others dream of flowering meadows and juicy dandelions, but Ralfy
dreams only of books. In fact, he doesn’t just dream about them, he wants to read them all the time. Soon his obsession
sends him spiralling into a life of crime! A wonderfully funny story from a talented new author/illustrator.
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Humour
Pocket Wisdom Dolly
By Dolly Parton
RRP $11.99 UBS PRICE $10.79
Dolly Parton - or the ‘Dolly Lama’, as she has been called - is renowned for her hilarious quotes, witty one-liners and
self-deprecating humour. In Pocket Dolly Wisdom, the Queen of Country’s best quotes have been compiled into a handy
pocket-sized edition, perfect for reading on the go. So if you’re feeling blue, need a laugh, a hug, or some solid Southern
advice, this is the book for you. From love to diets, life advice and more, there’s something for every Dolly fan.
How To Make Your Baby An Internet Celebrity
By Rick Chillot
RRP $26.99 UBS PRICE $24.29
From a wobbly first step to an adorably mispronounced refusal to eat bwoccoli, ephemeral moments of childhood joy
caught on video are now worth their digital weight in gold-and if you don’t cash in RIGHT NOW, you’re condemning your
child to a downward spiral of obscurity, public schooling, fast-food employment, and expensive psychotherapy.With this
handy guide, you’ll learn how to spot your baby’s potential, document each potentially adorable move, and wring every
last advertising dollar out of their viral videos.
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