The Library - A Catalogue of Wonders by Stuart Kells
$39.99 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction
"Excellent . . . Tracks the history of that greatest of all cultural institutions." --The Washington Post A love letter to libraries and to their makers and protectors, a celebration of books as objects, and an account of how the idea of the library continues to possess our imagination Libraries are m ...Show more
The Life to Come by Michelle de Kretser
$36.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Winner of the 2018 Miles Franklin Literary Award Shortlisted for the 2018 Stella Prize "For a novel concerned with dislocation, there's a lot of grounding humor in The Life to Come. Most of it comes at the expense of Pippa and her ilk, but de Kretser's observations are so spot on, you'll forgive her eve ...Show more
The Ones That Disappeared by Zana Fraillon
$29.99 NZD
Category: Young Adult Fiction
Around the world, millions of people - including many children - are victims of human trafficking. These modern-day slaves often go unseen even in our own cities and towns, their voices silent and their stories untold. In this incredible book, Zana Fraillon imagines the story of three such children, Esr ...Show more
This is My Song by Richard Yaxley
$18.99 NZD
Category: Young Adult Fiction
This is my blood, this is my song. In the early 1940s in Czechoslovakia, Rafael Ullmann and his family are sent to Terezin, the so-called model ghetto for Jewish artists. In the 1970s in Canada, Annie Ullmann lives a predictable, lonely life on a prairie with her reclusive father and deaf-dumb mother. T ...Show more
Transparencies by xxx (Other)
$29.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
On slender toes Down by the water's edge Two egrets effortlessly hold their pose In sedge. They hold their pose. This show, With all chinoiserie's Appeal, must be illusory. And so It is. Stephen Edgar's nimble-footed new collection Transparencies extends his exploration of the world's visual aspect, bot ...Show more
Unbreakable by Jessica Halloran; Jelena Dokic
$40.00 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction
This is a story of Jelena Dokic's survival. How she survived as a refugee, twice. How she survived on the tennis court to become world No. 4. But, most importantly, how she survived her father, Damir Dokic, the tennis dad from hell. Jelena was a prodigious talent, heralded as Australia's greatest tennis ...Show more