Summer Reading Guide
Here is our Summer Reading Guide for 2023/24... a great selection of new books for your holiday downtime and Christmas gift buying.
Contact us to pre-order any titles not yet released or in stock.
The Resilience Toolkit by Alia Bolijova
37.99 NZD
Category: Self Help
A peak-performance psychologist and coach on the simple steps anybody can take to unlock your full potential and achieve your best with calm and control We assume that heroes are wired differently from the rest of us. They overcome fear, doubt and pain to thrive under the most challenging conditions. Bu ...Show more
Silver Linings by Katrina Nannestad
22.99 NZD
Category: Junior/Middle Fiction
A new heartwarming novel set in 1950s Australia from bestselling author Katrina Nannestad. Nettie Sweeney has a dad, three big sisters, a farm full of cows and a cat called Mittens. But it's not enough. She longs for a mother. One with a gentle touch and sparkles in her eyes. Instead, she has Aunty Edi ...Show more
Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History by Philippa Gregory
39.99 NZD
Category: World History
One of our foremost historical novelists, Philippa Gregory, makes history. We have fallen into the belief that women were absent from great events, and ineffectual in normal times. Through a radical reframing of the conventional eras of our history, Normal Women tells the story of our nation - not w ...Show more
Even More Basics to Brilliance by Donna Hay
60.00 NZD
Category: Cooking
Donna Hay, Australia's most trusted and bestselling cookbook author, returns with a follow up to her much-loved bestselling classic, Basics to Brilliance. When Donna Hay first launched her visually-stunning hardcover book Basics to Brilliance in 2016, she had no idea its pages would become home to some ...Show more
Mangō: Sharks and Rays of Aotearoa by Ned Barraud; Andrew Stewart
35.00 NZD
Category: Childrens Non Fiction
The oceans surrounding Aotearoa New Zealand are home to over a hundred astonishing and strange species of sharks and rays. This fact-filled book takes you down into the fascinating underwater lives of these expert hunters, illustrates their evolution and explores their place in our culture. And it expla ...Show more
Signs of Life by Amy Head
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Christchurch, post quakes, and the earth is still settling. Containers line the damaged streets, whose inhabitants waver - like their city - suspended between disaster and recovery. Tony, very much alive, is declared dead, Gerald misreads one too many situations in his community patrol, and boomer Carla ...Show more
Don Binney - Flight Path by Gregory O'Brien
89.99 NZD
Category: NZ Art
Painter, printmaker, teacher, writer and ornithologist Don Binney (1940 - 2012) was a mercurial presence on the New Zealand cultural scene from the time of his meteoric rise to fame in the early 1960s. His unmistakable, stylised depictions of birds have come to define an era in the development of the na ...Show more
Remember Me - Poems to Learn by Heart from Aotearoa New Zealand by Anne Kennedy (Editor)
45.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry
In haka and waiata, sea shanties and ballads, in the words of Sam Hunt and Selina Tusitala Marsh, Hone Tuwhare and Hera Lindsay Bird, the rhythms of poetry have carried our sounds and stories, our loves and losses for generations. Now Anne Kennedy brings together for the first time a selection of over 2 ...Show more
Dazzlehands [Ringakoreko Ringakōreko English edition] by Sacha Cotter
27.00 NZD
Category: NZ Picture Books
The cow says 'moo' the chicken says 'cluck' and the pig says ... 'Dazzlehands!' As hard as the farmer tries, pig won't go 'oink'. Instead, pig gets all the animals moving to:'Train hands, rain hands, fly-it-like-a-plane hands.Bursting with the razzle, gotta liberate these DAZZLEHANDS!'
One of Us is Back (#3 Bayview High) by Karen M. McManus
30.00 NZD
Category: Young Adult Fiction
From international bestseller, Karen McManus, comes the explosive third and final thrilling instalment in the acclaimed One of Us... series. It's been almost two years since Simon died in detention, and the aftermath has been hard to shake. First the Bayview Four had to prove they weren't killers. Then ...Show more
The Seventh Son by Sebastian Faulks
37.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The exhilarating new literary novel from the worldwide bestseller and master storyteller. A CHILD WILL BE BORN WHO WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING. When a young American academic Talissa Adam offers to carry another woman's child, she has no idea of the life-changing consequences. Behind the doors of the Parn ...Show more
The Wren, The Wren by Anne Enright
37.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Carmel had been alone all her life. She had been alone since she was twelve years old. The baby knew all this. They looked at each other, and all of time was there. The baby knew how vast her mother's loneliness had been. A generational saga and contemporary meditation on daughterhood and motherhood, fr ...Show more