Festival Fiction
Fiction fans will be queuing for Mick Herron, Amitav Ghosh, Catherine Chidgey, RF Kuang and more!
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Ockham WinnerAll Her Lives
All Her Lives follows women across generations as they resist, nurture, and transform. These are lives shaped by love and politics, motherhood and memory, constraint and defiance. From girls raised in the garden of Plunket founder Truby King, to a queer university student at a mid-2000s Berlin rave, to a mother facing the cost of her son's climate rebellion, the...Paperback$2800Elsewhere:$3500Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today -
Katabasis
'Katabasis is a formidable, timeless work, destined to be a modern classic' OLIVIE BLAKE 'Katabasis is more than a novel to savor. This book is an experience. I envy those who get to read it for the first time' REBECCA ROSS 'A witty, gory, harrowing ride' LEIGH BARDUGO Katabasis, noun, Ancient Greek. The story of a hero's descent to the underworld. Grad student Alice Law...Paperback$2899Elsewhere:$3799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today -
What We Can Know
From 2014 to the year 2119, in a world submerged by rising seas, What We Can Know spans the past, present, and future to ask profound questions about who we are and where we are going. A masterpiece and Ian McEwan's finest novel yet. 2014 - A great poem is read aloud and never heard again. For generations, people speculate...Paperback$3199Elsewhere:$3800Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today -
Ockham ShortlistThe Book of Guilt
In a sinisterly skewed version of England in 1979, thirteen-year-old triplets Vincent, Lawrence and William are the last remaining residents of a New Forest home, part of the government’s Sycamore Scheme. Each day the boys must take medicine to protect themselves from a mysterious illness to which many of their friends have succumbed. Children who survive are allowed to move...Paperback$3199Elsewhere:$3800Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today -
Heart the Lover
'You knew I'd write a book about you someday' Our narrator understands good love stories — their secrets, their highs, and free falls. But her greatest love story, the one she lived, never followed the rules. She was in her senior year of college when star students Sam and Yash swept her into an intoxicating world of academic fervour, rapid-fire...Paperback$2999Elsewhere:$3699Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today -
Shirl's PickThe Black Monk
The latest novel from Charlotte Grimshaw, best-selling author of The Mirror Book. A woman haunted by family denial, secrets and a shadowy figure . . . While her brother Cedric spirals into addiction, Alice Lidell finds herself confronted not only by his decline, but by memories of the past. From their chaotic Auckland childhood to her present day life, Alice...Paperback$3199Elsewhere:$3800Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today -
The Names
Tomorrow - if morning comes, if the storm stops raging - Cora will register the name of her son. Or perhaps, and this is her real concern, she'll formalise who he will become. It is 1987, and in the aftermath of a great storm, Cora sets out with her nine-year-old daughter to register the birth of her son. Her husband...Paperback$2999Elsewhere:$3799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today -
Booker PrizeFlesh
From 2025 Booker Prize Winner author David Szalay comes a propulsive, hypnotic novel about a man who is unravelled by a series of events beyond his grasp. 'A revelatory novel' - Sunday Times 'Brilliance on every page' - Samantha Harvey, author of Orbital Fifteen-year-old Istvan lives with his mother in a quiet apartment complex in Hungary. New to the town...Paperback$3000Elsewhere:$3800Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today
Some of this year's star-studded authors and speakers lineup...
Festival Non-Fiction
Incredible speakers including Jacinda Ardern, Patrick Radden Keefe, Karen Hao, Lyse Doucet, Luke Kemp, Jimmy Wales and more...
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Every Second Counts
Every Second Counts is a fascinating, fast-paced memoir by award-winning NZ journalist Charlotte Glennie, who survived life-changing injuries after a near-fatal accident. She went on to break new ground reporting across Asia during major world events, including military and political crackdowns and natural disasters. Set in New Zealand, Australia, Asia and Europe, this is the adrenaline-fuelled life of a journalist...Paperback$3199Elsewhere:$3999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today -
How Will I Ever Get Through This?
'Dr Lucy's unpacking of the grief that comes with living losses was a lightbulb moment for me.' Ellidy Pullin 'The best work I know on positive psychology and grief is Lucy Hone's.' Martin Seligman 'Lucy's insights are practical, wise, and deeply human - they stay with you long after you read them.' Chelsea Pottenger From bestselling author and TED speaker...Paperback$3299Elsewhere:$3799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today -
The Dead Speak
In this empathetic and darkly funny memoir, Thomas Coyle one of New Zealand's most seasoned forensic investigators pulls back the police tape and walks us straight into the crime scenes. With sharp detail, he reveals how the tiniest fragment of evidence can expose a suspect, prove a motive, or confirm an identity. Sometimes, all at once. But crime scenes are...Paperback$3199Elsewhere:$3799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today -
New ReleaseTe Kaikaukau | The Swimmer
Novelist, memoirist and playwright Witi Ihimaera – author of Pounamu, Pounamu and The Whale Rider – decided, at the age of eighty, to dive back into the water and spend a year full-time at Te Wānanga Takiura, immersing himself in his own language, in te reo Māori. This book tells the story of this kaikaukau, this swimmer, and his year...Paperback$3500Elsewhere:$4500Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today -
Goliath’s Curse
Goliath’s Curse by Luke Kemp offers a radical retelling of human history through the lens of collapse, delving into what this means for our uncertain future. This narrative spans from the dawn of our species to the urgent existential threats of the twenty-first century and beyond. It's grounded in the latest research and a comprehensive database of more than 440...Paperback$2999Elsewhere:$4000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today -
Fire in Every Direction
‘Moving and generous’ Isabella Hammad, author of Enter Ghost Fire in Every Direction is a marvel Omar El Akkad, author of One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This ‘Luminous, moving, and achingly beautiful’ Maaza Mengiste, author of The Shadow King ‘I am forever changed after reading this book’ Javier Zamora, author of Solito ‘A deeply inspiring and absorbing...Paperback$3199Elsewhere:$3999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today -
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A Maori Phrase a Day
A Maori Phrase a Day by Hemi Kelly is a modern, user-friendly phrasebook designed for all New Zealanders who wish to connect more deeply with the Māori language and culture. This book offers a delightful and accessible entry point into te reo Māori, presenting 365 phrases that cover everyday life and aims to build an enriching language learning journey through...Paperback$2500Elsewhere:$3000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today
New Zealand Writers
Aotearoa's finest including Jacinda Ardern, Catherine Chidgey, Tāme Iti, Barry Soper and more join the star-studded lineup...
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The Vanishing Place
Jane Harper's Force of Nature meets the wild and atmospheric setting of The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah in this twisty, stay-up-all-night thriller about family, love, and loyalty, and the fight for survival in the most beautiful but dangerous New Zealand wilderness. On the remote West Coast of the South Island, vast forests stretch out between mountain ranges and rugged...Paperback$3199Elsewhere:$3799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today -
Shirl's Pick
The Black Monk
The latest novel from Charlotte Grimshaw, best-selling author of The Mirror Book. A woman haunted by family denial, secrets and a shadowy figure . . . While her brother Cedric spirals into addiction, Alice Lidell finds herself confronted not only by his decline, but by memories of the past. From their chaotic Auckland childhood to her present day life, Alice...Paperback$3199Elsewhere:$3800Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today -
Ockham Shortlist
The Book of Guilt
In a sinisterly skewed version of England in 1979, thirteen-year-old triplets Vincent, Lawrence and William are the last remaining residents of a New Forest home, part of the government’s Sycamore Scheme. Each day the boys must take medicine to protect themselves from a mysterious illness to which many of their friends have succumbed. Children who survive are allowed to move...Paperback$3199Elsewhere:$3800Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today -
Ockham ShortlistHoods Landing
Rita considered the dead. Shut her eyes. Rolled their names around her brain. Stacked each person in order like folded laundry, warm and crisp from the sun. She wondered how her name would sound amongst them. In the rural reaches of Auckland, the women of the eclectic Gordon family gather for Christmas. They may push each other's buttons, but know...Paperback$3000Elsewhere:$3500Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today -
Ockham WinnerA Different Kind of Power
What if we could redefine leadership? What if kindness came first? Jacinda Ardern grew up the daughter of a police officer in small-town New Zealand, but as the 40th Prime Minister of her country, she commanded global respect for her empathetic leadership that put people first. This is the remarkable story of how a Mormon girl plagued by self-doubt made...Hardback$4799Elsewhere:$5999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today -
Every Second Counts
Every Second Counts is a fascinating, fast-paced memoir by award-winning NZ journalist Charlotte Glennie, who survived life-changing injuries after a near-fatal accident. She went on to break new ground reporting across Asia during major world events, including military and political crackdowns and natural disasters. Set in New Zealand, Australia, Asia and Europe, this is the adrenaline-fuelled life of a journalist...Paperback$3199Elsewhere:$3999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today -
Mana
Mana. It's a big word. But what is it? Are you born with it, can you earn it, can it be taken away? For more than five decades, Tāme Iti has stood at the heart of Aotearoa's struggle for indigenous rights. From land marches to performance art, police raids to prison cells, his voice has challenged New Zealand to reckon...Hardback$4199Elsewhere:$4999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today -
The Dead Speak
In this empathetic and darkly funny memoir, Thomas Coyle one of New Zealand's most seasoned forensic investigators pulls back the police tape and walks us straight into the crime scenes. With sharp detail, he reveals how the tiniest fragment of evidence can expose a suspect, prove a motive, or confirm an identity. Sometimes, all at once. But crime scenes are...Paperback$3199Elsewhere:$3799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today
Kids & Young Readers
Children, young people (and their grown ups) can experience the magic of Dav Pilkey, Sarina Clark and Rachael King at this year's festival...
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Big Jim Believes (Dog Man #14)
Power up with Dog Man: Big Jim Believes from the global #1 bestselling author and award-winning artist Dav Pilkey. Join the journey as our heroes discover the influence of belief and find truth from within. With threads of self-awareness, confidence, and integrity, Dav Pilkey masterfully crafts a humorous and heartfelt adventure, weaving together the importance of truth, goodness, and believing...Hardback$1999Elsewhere:$2499Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today -
Aria and the Kūmara God
A full-colour illustrated chapter book for readers 6 years plus that returns to the exciting magical world of the Astromancer! Will headstrong Aria manage the impossible climb up to the stars and free Te Kokorangi from Ruatapu's clutches before time runs out? Enter the exciting and dangerous world of the Astromancer... This epic magical adventure inspired by Māori mythology is...Hardback$2500Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today -
Signed CopyThe Raven's Eye Runaways
Three friends and a one-eyed raven find themselves up against the rulers who restrict the gifts of writing and reading to an elite few. They must go on a wild and unpredictable rescue mission. Who and what will they meet along their way? And what is the terrible truth behind everything they think they know about their world? 'You will...Paperback$1999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today -
The Case of the Angry Ghost: Violet and the Velvets Book 2
The Case of the Angry Ghost: Violet and the Velvets Book 2 by Rachael King follows Violet and her band as they make it to BandChamps! Armed with their own songs, they're competing alongside their school rivals, The Alphas, for glory. But wait! Strange goings-on are afoot at the Royal Theatre, where it's rumoured a grumpy ghost ballerina haunts the...Paperback$1600Elsewhere:$1899Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today -
The Grimmelings
'Splendidly inventive, expertly controlled, full of passion and compassion, and a narrative I would give four fingernails to have thought of.' — David Hill 'A compelling and lovingly crafted novel.' — David Mitchell The same evening Josh Underhill went missing, the black horse appeared on the hill above the house. Thirteen-year-old Ella knows that words are powerful. So she should...Paperback$2200Elsewhere:$2499Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today -
Kings of This World
Vex is used to people being afraid of her special power, the ability to persuade others to do what she wants. But when she arrives at a new school, Tiebold Academy, it is packed with people who have the same special power as her, and who might even like her. There is her roommate Ronnie, a coolheaded high achiever, and...Paperback$2700Elsewhere:$2999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today -
The Whale Rider
A beautiful picture book retelling of Witi Ihimaera's bestselling novel The Whale Rider, illustrated by Bruce Potter. Witi Ihimaera's bestselling novel The Whale Rider is retold in a beautifully illustrated picture book format for young readers. From the time of her birth, Kahu is destined to become the leader of her tribe in the East Coast village of Whangara. But...Paperback$2000Elsewhere:$2200Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today -
The Last Journey
Beautiful and heart-achingly sad animal adventure with CATS and a strong environmental message. Perfect for fans of Michael Morpurgo, Sarah Lean and Hannah Gold's The Last Bear... ‘Captures the magic that animals bring to our lives.’ Sarah Ann Juckes, author of The Night Animals The Last Journey by Stacy Gregg is a tale of unyielding bonds and courageous adventures. Pusskin...Paperback$1600Elsewhere:$2099Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today
Enterprise Architecture As Strategy
Does it seem you've formulated a rock-solid strategy, yet your firm still can't get ahead? If so, construct a solid foundation for business execution—an IT infrastructure and digitised business processes to automate your company's core capabilities. In Enterprise Architecture As Strategy: Creating a Foundation for Business Execution, authors Jeanne W. Ross, Peter Weill, and David C. Robertson show you how....Hardback$9800Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Making Medieval Manuscripts
Based mainly on examples in the Bodleian Library, this lavishly illustrated account tells the story of manuscript production from the early Middle Ages to the high Renaissance. Each stage of production is described, from the preparation of the parchment, pens, paints, and inks to the writing of the scripts and the illumination of the manuscript. Many beautiful illuminated manuscripts survive...Paperback$8700Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
The Midnight Timetable
From the author and translator of the National Book Award finalist and Booker Prize shortlisted Cursed Bunny, comes a new novel-in-ghost-stories, set in a mysterious research centre that houses cursed objects, where those who open the wrong door might find it's disappeared behind them, or that the echoing footsteps they're running from are their own... The acclaimed Korean horror and...Paperback$3200Elsewhere:$3700Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Glass Palace
A NEW EDITION WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY NEEL MUKHERJEE The international bestseller from the Booker Prize-shortlisted author 'Ghosh has established himself as one of the finest prose writers of his generation' Financial Times Set in Burma during the British invasion of 1885, this masterly novel tells the story of Rajkumar, a poor boy lifted on the tides of social and...Paperback$2799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Standing by the Wall
A Slough House Christmas short story from the Sunday Times number one bestseller of BAD ACTORS. Here in Slough House, the intelligence service's home for inept spies, it's beginning to feel a lot like Christmas. Roddy Ho is used to being the one the slow horses turn to when they need miracles performed, and he's always been Jackson Lamb's Number...Paperback$2499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Great Derangement
Are we deranged? The acclaimed Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh argues that future generations may well think so. How else to explain our imaginative failure in the face of global warming? In his first major book of nonfiction since In an Antique Land, Ghosh examines our inability—at the level of literature, history, and politics—to grasp the scale and violence of climate...Paperback$3399Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Leaving Atlanta
It's the end of summer in Atlanta, and fifth-grade classmates Tasha Baxter, Rodney Green, and Octavia Harrison will discover that back-to-school means facing everyday challenges in a new world of safety lessons, terrified parents, and constant fear. Because it was the summer during which Atlanta's African-American children were vanishing. The moving story of their struggle to grow up and survive...Paperback$5000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Stamford Hospital
A statement to the profound loneliness available to only those who commit to love. In Singapore, where driven foreign women have a hard time finding work, a Harvard-educated mother struggles to find an outlet for her loaded brain. Meanwhile, her marriage with an asexual husband, who has made Singapore their forever home in a Machiavellian call, unravels. Stamford Hospital follows...Paperback$3300Elsewhere:$3600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Women Behind the Door
Booker-Prize winner Roddy Doyle makes a spectacular return to his iconic character, Paula Spencer, whom he introduced in the groundbreaking The Woman Who Walked into Doors and its follow-up, Paula Spencer. At sixty-six, Paula Spencer—mother, grandmother, widow, addict, survivor—is finally living her life. She has a job at the dry cleaners that she enjoys, a man—Joe—with whom she shares what...Paperback$3500Elsewhere:$3800Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Boy Friends
An intimate and original memoir of love, grief, and male friendship by one of Scotland's brightest young talents. 'As perfect a portrait of friendship as I've ever read.' - STEPHEN FRY 'Lucid, lyrical, loaded . . . A love letter to friendship.' - JACKIE KAY 'A lovely book: bright and heartfelt, funny and refreshing.' - ANDREW O'HAGAN 'A beautiful, moving,...Paperback$2799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Boy Friends
'A lovely book: bright and heartfelt, funny and refreshing.' - ANDREW O'HAGAN 'A beautiful, moving, life-affirming book.' - IAN RANKIN Friendships just might be the greatest love affairs of our lives. In 2018, poet and author Michael Pedersen lost a cherished friend, Scott Hutchison, soon after their collective voyage into the landscape of the Scottish Highlands. Just weeks later, Michael...Hardback$3600Elsewhere:$3999Unit price /UnavailableBackorderShips mid August
Your Utopia
By the internationally acclaimed author of Cursed Bunny, in another thrilling translation from the Korean by Anton Hur, Your Utopia is full of tales of loss and discovery, idealism and dystopia, death and immortality. "Nothing concentrates the mind like Chung's terrors, which will shrivel you to a bouillon cube of your most primal instincts" (Vulture), yet these stories are suffused...Paperback$3200Elsewhere:$3500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Life Of Pi
One boy, one boat, one tiger . . . After the tragic sinking of a cargo ship, a solitary lifeboat remains bobbing on the wild, blue Pacific. The only survivors from the wreck are a sixteen-year-old boy named Pi, a hyena, a zebra (with a broken leg), a female orang-utan, and a 450-pound Royal Bengal tiger. The scene is set...Paperback$2600Elsewhere:$2799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
Charlie Savage
Charlie Savage is classic Roddy Doyle—funny, tender, and true. Meet Charlie Savage. Charlie is a middle-aged Dubliner with an indefatigable wife, an exasperated daughter, and a drinking buddy who's realised that he's been a woman all along. Compiled here for the first time is a whole year's worth of Roddy Doyle's hilarious series for the Irish Independent. Giving a unique...Paperback$2400Elsewhere:$2600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
The High Mountains of Portugal
In Lisbon in 1904, a young man named Tomás discovers an old journal. It hints at the existence of an extraordinary artefact that—if he can find it—would redefine history. Travelling in one of Europe's earliest automobiles, he sets out in search of this strange treasure. Thirty-five years later, a Portuguese pathologist devoted to the murder mysteries of Agatha Christie finds...Paperback$2700Elsewhere:$3000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
Beatrice and Virgil
Destiny can take many shapes. For Henry, a writer struggling to finish a book about the Holocaust, it arrives in the form of a puzzling envelope from a stranger. The envelope takes him into a taxidermist's workshop. Filled with lovingly preserved animals from all corners of the globe, this place is unlike anywhere he has ever been. Among the hundreds...Paperback$2700Elsewhere:$3000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
Nightstorm and the Grand Slam
It’s the final Pony Club Secrets adventure for Issie and Storm (book 12) – can they become the youngest team to win the triple Grand Slam ever? Don’t miss the explosive finale to the UK's bestselling pony series. Issie exceeded her wildest riding dreams winning at the Lexington Kentucky four-star trials, but could there be even bigger prizes on the...Paperback$1600Elsewhere:$1799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
Fortune and the Golden Trophy
The sixth gripping adventure in this exciting pony-club series – now with a brand-new, commercial cover look! With gymkhanas to win, rivals to defeat, mysteries to solve, and ponies in danger to save – these books are perfect for all girls who love ponies. Issie and friends are surprised when Natasha Tucker's dad is made pony club president and unveils...Paperback$1700Elsewhere:$1799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
Strong, Beautiful and Modern
In the late 1930s and early 1940s, a wave of state-sponsored 'national fitness' programmes swept Britain and its former colonies. Following revelations of the Nazi enthusiasm for government-backed sports and the organisation of mass leisure, the programmes quickly foundered. They probably laid, however, the foundations for the twentieth century's obsession with fitness— a key facet of modern life. In this...Paperback$4500Elsewhere:$4999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 1 week
Helen Kelly
The stunning biography of one of New Zealand's most electrifying and controversial women leaders. When Helen Kelly died on a Wellington spring night in October 2016, with her partner by her side and a bunch of peonies, the first of the season, by her bed, Aotearoa New Zealand lost an extraordinary leader. Kelly was the first female head of the...Paperback$4500Elsewhere:$5000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 1 week
Wild Fictions
Wild Fictions brings together Amitav Ghosh's extraordinary writing on the subjects that have obsessed him over the last twenty-five years: literature and language; climate change and the environment; human lives, travel, and discoveries. The spaces that we inhabit, and the way in which we occupy them, is a constant thread throughout this striking and expansive collection. From the significance of...Paperback$3300Elsewhere:$3799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Detective Stanley and the Mystery at the Museum
Highly illustrated animal detective mystery for young readers. Detective Stanley and the Mystery at the Museum begins when Detective Stanley has barely sat down for his breakfast pancakes and receives an invitation he cannot refuse. The Art Museum has been raided on the opening day of the Bleat Mondrian show, and Stan has been called to investigate. The most perplexing...Paperback$2499Unit price /UnavailableBackorderShips late August-
Devotion
From the multi-award-winning author of Burial Rites Growing up in the village of Kay in Prussia, 1836, Hanne Nussbaum would rather run wild in the forest than conform to the limitations of womanhood. Hanne is friendless and misunderstood... until she meets Thea. When Hanne and her family are forced to flee religious persecution, they board a crowded, disease-riddled ship bound...Paperback$2499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
The Catch
The Catch by Mick Herron is a compelling and tightly crafted tragicomedy that dives into the perilous world of British Intelligence with sharp wit and sardonic humour. The story revolves around John Bachelor, a washed-up spy who has learned to keep his head down to survive. John's current predicament is less than enviable; living rent-free in the flat of a...Paperback$2499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
Fruit Fly
It’s not her story to tell. Or is it?Anyone can write a bestseller. Here’s how:GO GAYIt’s been seven years since Mallory shot to fame as a literary sensation. But after years of struggling with writer’s block, she’s desperate to resurrect her career before it spirals into obscurity. She needs inspiration to strike – and fast.GO SADEnter Leo: a young struggling...PaperbackSold Out
Always Home, Always Homesick
In my brief breath of life, might I find a way to fit light to paper? In a land of ethereal beauty, within a culture soaked in myth, a young woman discovers the story that will change her life. In 2003, seventeen-year-old Australian exchange student Hannah Kent arrives at Keflavík Airport in the middle of the Icelandic winter. That night...HardbackSold Out
Zines NZ
Lo-fi, hand-built and produced in small editions by devoted zinesters, zines are an ever-evolving and enduring publishing phenomenon. This lively book tells the Aotearoa zine story, from our first punk-rock music zine in 1980 to the plethora of contemporary zinefests of the early twenty-first century. Zines NZ: From punk to present is written by a zine devotee and is packed...PaperbackSold Out-
The Woman Who Walked Into Doors
Prize-winner Roddy Doyle's novel is the story of an ordinary woman from Dublin and her stormy relationship with her husband Charlo. The Woman Who Walked Into Doors explores the resilience and strength of its protagonist as she navigates the complexities of her life. Doyle's compelling narrative and sharp insights into the human condition offer a poignant and realistic portrayal that...PaperbackSold Out 
The Girl with the Lost Smile
This is a story guaranteed to make you laugh and cry: the first children's book from award-winning, bestselling author, comedian and national treasure Miranda Hart.Chloe Long has lost her smile. She's looked everywhere for it. (Under her pillow. Under her bed. Under her nose. Obviously.)She's tried everything to bring it back. (Her favourite cake. Her favourite gran. Her favourite joke....PaperbackSold Out
Empire of AI
An eye-opening account of the tech arms race shaping our planet, from an award-winning journalist and AI insider to the world of Sam Altman and OpenAI. When longtime AI expert and journalist Karen Hao first began covering OpenAI in 2019, she thought they were the good guys. Founded as a nonprofit with safety enshrined as its core mission, it was...HardbackSold Out-
Golden Days
'Nostalgic and tender as a bruise.' - Jacqueline Bublitz, Before You Knew My Name Becky thought she'd left Zoe Golden and that summer far behind. Until now. Set in 1995 against the backdrop of Auckland's burgeoning party scene, Golden Days is the story of an intense late-teens friendship between bookish Becky and star-dusted Zoe Golden, and what happened when one...PaperbackSold Out 
Life Without Children
A brilliantly warm, witty and moving portrait of our pandemic lives, told in ten heart-rending short stories. Love and marriage, children and family, death and grief. Life touches everyone the same, but living under lockdown? It changes us alone. A man abroad wanders the stag-and-hen-strewn streets of Newcastle, as news of the virus at home asks him to question his...PaperbackSold Out-
Bloody Minded
'A story of grit and determination from a woman who writes the way she lives - fiercely, with passion and in full colour.' - Michele A'Court 'There are times, admittedly rare, when a book comes along that needs only one word to evaluate it. In the case of Bloody Minded, that word is "WOW"... Unquestionably it must be a hot...PaperbackSold Out
