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Through thematic essays spanning two decades, the contributors illuminate what is new and what is long running, and what choices Aotearoa now has as it faces rapid geopolitical, economic, technological and climate shifts. This volume offers essential historical context and practical insights for policymakers, academics, students, and anyone interested in informed public debate.This is a flagship research publication published by...

Spadge Returns by Ivan Wilson is a colourful children’s picture book, featuring the brilliant images of artist Les Holmes, who brings to life Spadge's new adventure. Spadge leaves his country town to return to the city on a quest to find the sparrows who didn't get home with him last time. In the city, Spadge meets all sorts of birds...

This saga brings alive the world of the 10th century AD when the Vikings raided the coasts of England. Acclaimed as one of the best historical novels ever written, this engaging saga of Viking adventure in 10th century northern Europe has a very appealing young hero, Orm Tostesson, whose story we follow from inexperienced youth to adventurous old age, through...

Six-year-old Kate loves helping around the house, it makes her feel very grown up. But when she shakes out the kitchen mat on the first day of the school holidays, she accidentally launches a tiny stowaway straight into her hair. Little Flea soon makes himself at home in Kate's ear, chatting away, asking cheeky questions and occasionally getting her into...

When a kiwi's crate tumbles off a Department of Conservation truck, he finds himself lost and alone at a bus stop, until a curious boy named Kauri discovers him. Together, Kauri and his teacher, Mrs McTilley, must find a way to get the kiwi safely home. Kauri Boy and the Lost Kiwi is a tender, funny story about empathy, problem-solving...

Claire's last two thrillers have been instant Sunday Times bestsellers. This will be the third. Kirsty's family have escaped London for the beautiful, remote Welsh mountains, leaving their dark past behind. Opening their guesthouse marks the start of the type of idyllic life some people would kill for. But their first guest isn't one they expected. Kirsty hasn't spoken to...

She can run but she can't hide. Because someone knows her secret... Libby and James Hall can't believe their luck when the leaflet comes through the door. Swapping their tiny city flat for a beautiful house by the sea? Who would say no? But once they arrive at The Hideaway, Libby starts to get jittery and increasingly paranoid. She is...

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Local Girl Missing and Do Not Disturb – a new thriller that tears at the heart while keeping it racing. One missing. One a murderer. One trying to find the truth. Flora has her whole life ahead of her – until the summer night she vanishes from her sleepy seaside town. Her sister...

In 1988, Gen Lamrimpa, a Tibetan monk, led a one-year retreat in the Pacific Northwest, during which a group of Western meditators devoted themselves to the practice of meditative quiescence (shamatha). How to Practice Shamatha Meditation is a record of the oral teachings he gave to this group at the outset of the retreat. The teachings are brought to life...

The Buddhist jhanas—successive states of deep focus or meditative absorption—demystified. A very practical guidebook for meditators for navigating their way through these states of bliss and concentration. A practical guidebook for meditators interested in achieving the states of bliss and deep focus associated with the Buddhist jhanas. One of the elements of the Eightfold Path is Right Concentration—the one-pointedness of...

The Curry Bible by Nisha Katona MBE is a delightful guide to exploring the world of Indian cookery with ease and flavour. As one of the UK's leading voices in Indian food, Nisha shares her secrets for creating low-effort curries that pack a punch in terms of taste. In this book, Nisha invites you into her home, revealing how to...

An inspiring book filled with Malaika Arora's tips and advice to take better care of yourself One question has followed Malaika Arora in her three decades in the entertainment industry: ‘How do you do it all?’ Whether it’s staying fit, managing a packed schedule, or showing up with energy and poise, people are always curious about her so-called ‘secrets’. But...

On and off the field, Jackie Robinson never backed down from a challenge. The baseball legend broke Major League Baseball's colour barrier in 1947, changing the sport forever. It was eight years later that a photo of him stealing home during the 1955 World Series became one of the most famous images from his historic career. The iconic photo of...

The Seagull is the eighth book in Ann Cleeves's Vera Stanhope series – which is now a major ITV detective drama starring Brenda Blethyn as Vera. Obsession never dies . . . When prison inmate and former police officer John Brace says he's willing to give up information about the location of a dead body in return for protection for...

The Glass Room is the fifth book in Ann Cleeves' Vera Stanhope series – which is now a major ITV detective drama starring Brenda Blethyn as Vera. Sometimes crime strikes too close to home . . . DI Vera Stanhope is not one to make friends easily, but her neighbours keep her well-supplied in homebrew and conversation. But when one...

A lavishly illustrated collection of best-loved tales and adventures. Retold and illustrated by the inimitable Val Biro. Sindbad the Sailor The Enchanted Horse Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp The Adventures of Caliph Haroun Alraschid Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves The Pot of Gold AGES: 4+ ILLUSTRATOR: Val Biro was born in 1921 in Budapest, Hungary, and studied art in...

Silent Voices is the fourth book in Ann Cleeves' Vera Stanhope series - which is now a major ITV detective drama starring Brenda Blethyn, Vera. When DI Vera Stanhope finds the body of a woman in the sauna room of her local gym, she wonders briefly if, for once in her life, she's uncovered a simple death from natural causes....

The Sustainable Urban Design Handbook gathers the best sustainability practices and latest research from the fields of architecture, landscape architecture, planning, development, ecology, and environmental engineering. It presents them in a graphically rich and accessible format that can help guide urban design decisions in cities of all sizes. The book offers a comprehensive framework organising more than 50 elements of...

To her small Eskimo village, she is known as Miyax; to her friend in San Francisco, she is Julie. When the village is no longer safe for her, Miyax runs away. But she soon finds herself lost in the Alaskan wilderness, without food, without even a compass to guide her. Slowly she is accepted by a pack of Arctic wolves,...

Between 1854 and 1929, so-called orphan trains ran regularly from the cities of the East Coast to the farmlands of the Midwest, carrying thousands of abandoned children whose fates would be determined by pure luck. Would they be adopted by a kind and loving family, or would they face a childhood and adolescence of hard labour and servitude? As a...

If there is one skill that separates the professional screenwriter from the amateur, it is the ability to rewrite successfully. From Jack Epps, Jr., the screenwriter of Top Gun, Dick Tracy, and The Secret of My Success, comes a comprehensive guide that explores the many layers of rewriting. In Screenwriting is Rewriting, Epps provides a practical and tested approach to...

When two young women students claimed they had been indecently assaulted at a party by the Master of Ormond at Melbourne University in 1990, the shock not only split the college and university communities but focused sharply the larger social debate about sexuality and power. What the media presented as a head-on clash between outraged innocence and exploiting power becomes,...

From the world's #1 bestselling author, on Thanksgiving Day, a mysterious attacker strikes New York's parade—and it's up to Michael Bennett to hunt them down. Michael Bennett, be grateful you're alive. Someone attacked the Thanksgiving Day Parade directly in front of Michael Bennett and his family. The television news called it "holiday terror"—Michael Bennett calls it personal. The hunt is...

'Like Angela Carter, she is relentlessly inventive' Sunday Times 'Full of pathos, spirit and iridescent innocence' Independent on Sunday The first novel by the author of The Lonely Hearts Hotel 12-year-old Baby is used to turmoil in her life. Her mother is long dead, her father is a junkie and they shuttle between rotting apartments and decrepit downtown hotels. As...

What if life is even more miraculous than you've imagined? Why not find out for yourself? The words in this enchanting children's book are here to cheer you on—to encourage you to be brave, live with your whole heart, and become whoever you want to be. They're here to invigorate you to do something you love, something you believe in....

Farm 123 is a first numbers book with a difference—young children will love lifting the flaps to discover their favourite farm animals, all the way from one cat to ten naughty rabbits! By Rod Campbell, the creator of the preschool lift-the-flap classic Dear Zoo, who has been a trusted name in early learning for over thirty-five years. With bright, bold...

How did neoliberalism arise? Faced with the crises of the 1970s, a coalition of neoliberal intellectuals, conservative politicians, and business interests carried out a vast project of walling off the economy from democracy, ensuring the dominance of finance—or so the conventional story goes. Democracy in Default offers a new perspective on the birth of neoliberalism, showing that this common narrative...

Taking up where Little Wilson and Big God left off, You've Had Your Time is the second volume of Anthony Burgess's autobiography. It begins in 1959, with the author's return from Brunei, and the start of a long and prolific writing career, and ends, somewhat arbitrarily, in 1982, with the centenary celebrations of the birth of James Joyce, which prompt...

Little Wilson and Big God, the first part of Anthony Burgess's two-volume autobiography, tells the story of a disaffected Manchester Catholic from his birth in 1917 up to the commencement, in 1959, of his career as a professional writer. Born Jack Wilson, the son of Catholic Irish and Lancashire parents, Burgess grew up in one of the toughest areas of...

The autobiography of the classic author of A Town Like Alice and On the Beach. Nevil Shute was a power and a pioneer in the world of flying long before he began to write the stories that made him a bestselling novelist. This autobiography charts Shute's path from childhood to his career as a gifted aeronautical engineer working at the...

A classic adventure from the author of A Town Like Alice and On the Beach. If somewhere is 'beyond the black stump' it means it is in the deepest darkest wilds of the Australian outback. This is the sun-baked setting for Nevil Shute's novel of a romance that is tested by the differences between two young people's home lives. Stanton...

Two key texts in the development of semiology and structuralism by a master of literary criticism. Semiology is the science of signs and symbols, and their role in culture and society. Writing Degree Zero is Barthes' introduction to his field of study, the basic definitions required in the analysis of speech, language, writing, and style, delivered with a poet's insight...

Test your powers of logic with these fun Su Doku puzzles. The latest volume in the hugely popular Killer Su Doku series from The Times, featuring the highest-quality puzzles with an extra element of arithmetic. This addition to the successful Times Killer Su Doku series will test your skills to the limit, adding the challenge of arithmetic and taking Su...

New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Elle Kennedy brings her signature angst, humour, and romance to the fourth instalment in a series about four hockey-playing college roommates and the women who knock them off their pedestals and teach them how to love. Discover another binge-worthy romance from New York Times and international bestselling author Elle Kennedy! She's good...

When Lissy James moves from California to Oklahoma, she finds herself in the middle of a teenage nightmare—a social scene to rival a Hollywood movie. And if understanding the hierarchy of the Goldens vs. the Nons isn't hard enough, Lissy's ever-growing Aura Vision is getting harder and harder to hide, and if she's not careful, she's going to become a...

The highly anticipated final book in the internationally bestselling The Art of Hearing Heartbeats trilogy, a moving story about love's power to transcend distances and heal seemingly irreparable wounds. Twelve-year-old Ko Bo Bo lives with his uncle U Ba in Kalaw, a town in Burma. An unusually perceptive child, Bo Bo can read people's emotions in their eyes. This acute...

The origin of AidaIro's masterpiece! Toilet-bound Hanako-kun was originally published as a self-contained short series, and you can read those three chapters here along with AidaIro's debut work, My Dear Living Dead. If you want to see Nene try to curse her ex to death, Kou fall off a roof (more than once), or Hanako-kun butt heads with a new...

The definitive collection of tales of the supernatural, edited by Michael Newton. 'The ghost is the most enduring figure in supernatural fiction. He is absolutely indestructible... He changes with the styles in fiction but he never goes out of fashion. He is the really permanent citizen of the earth, for mortals, at best, are but transients' - Dorothy Scarborough This...

Rediscover the precursors to and the cultural and historical ancestors of the modern-day vampire—the most powerful of all the forms taken by the undead—in this hauntingly illustrated volume. The idea of a supernatural being with a never-ending, insatiable appetite for blood or human viscera has plagued the human mind for centuries, appearing in mythology and folklore from all corners of...

From the internationally bestselling author of The Serpent and the Wings of Night, Slaying the Vampire Conqueror by Carissa Broadbent is a dark fantasy romance filled with heart-pounding romance, vengeful gods, and betrayal. She was commanded to kill him with a single strike to the heart. She didn’t expect her own to betray her. Sylina is a dedicated acolyte of...

The world's most popular female superhero returns to the big screen in WONDER WOMAN. This kit captures the huge audience for the enduring icon of empowerment for girls and women of all ages. It includes a 3 1/2" Wonder Woman figure featuring audio of 10 different motivational phrases, plus a 48-page book titled THE WONDER WOMAN WAY, complete with full-colour...

Explore the world of all three Total War: WARHAMMER games in this stunning compendium, packed with concept art, final designs, storyboards, and artist commentary. Total War: WARHAMMER is the award-winning PC strategy game trilogy from Creative Assembly. Set in the world of Warhammer Fantasy Battles, it combines grand campaigns of epic empire-building with battles of breathtaking scale, brimming with the...

This New York Times bestselling overview of Wes Anderson's filmography features previously unpublished behind-the-scenes photos, artwork, and ephemera, with an introduction by Michael Chabon. Writer/director Wes Anderson guides movie/television critic Matt Zoller Seitz through Anderson's life and career in a hardcover book-length conversation, woven together with original illustrations and production images from Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Life...

Put Stick Man through his paces in this gorgeously interactive finger puppet book. Young children will love meeting Stick Man and his friends and playing with the plush puppet in this fabulous new board book. This fun finger puppet format from superstar creators, Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler is perfect for fans of the original picture books.

Self-seeding wind is a wind of ever-replenishing breath. -from 'The Walk, or The Principle of Rapid Peering' The title of Sylvia Legris' melopoeic collection The Principle of Rapid Peering comes from a phrase the nineteenth-century ornithologist and field biologist Joseph Grinnell used to describe the feeding behaviour of certain birds. Rather than waiting passively for food to approach them, these...

An astonishing collection about interconnectedness - between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ourselves - from National Book Critics Circle Award winner and National Book Award finalist Ada Limon.'I have always been too sensitive, a weeper / from a long line of weepers,' writes Limon. 'I am the hurting kind.' What does it mean to be the hurting kind? To...

See the kitten, how she starts, Crouches, stretches, paws and darts; With a tiger-leap half way Now she meets her coming prey. Lets it go as fast and then Has it in her power again. From 'The Kitten at Play' by William Wordsworth Curious, enigmatic and playful, cats have often inspired the literary imagination. This beautifully illustrated anthology of cat...

From the author of the best-selling Read This If You Want To Take Great Photographs series, this jargon-free introduction covers all aspects of photographing places, including landscapes, cityscapes, architecture and interiors. Whatever your camera, whatever your interest, whatever your level, this indispensable guide gives you all the essential techniques and demystifies the work of acclaimed photographers. Packed with practical tips...

Sixteen year old Valya knows what it feels like to fly. She's a pilot who's always felt more at home soaring through the sky than down on earth. But since the Germans surrounded Stalingrad, Valya's been forced to stay on the ground and watch her city crumble.When her mother is killed during the siege, Valya is left with one burning...

You can easily add colour and use your imagination in this paw-tastic Paint with Water activity book. Just swirl a paintbrush dipped in water on the paint palette found on every page. You’ll find Gabby, Pandy Paws, Kitty Fairy, Pillow Cat and the rest of the gang in this flower-rific fun book.

This limited printing, hardcover 40th anniversary edition includes: An exclusive new interview with lead singer Simon Le Bon A Rio timeline A newly designed book cover by Rio album sleeve designer, Malcolm Garrette Vintage Duran Duran photos and ads And much more... In the '80s, the Birmingham, England, band Duran Duran became closely associated with new wave, an idiosyncratic genre...

Do you long for intimacy with God but aren’t quite sure how to connectDiscover the path to Scripture's most astounding promise—intimacy with the Creator Himself—in Drawing Near by international bestselling author and speaker John Bevere. Through an exploration of Scripture and personal stories, John Bevere invites you to communion and friendship with God but also guides you on the journey of...

An international collaboration involving 26 writers and illustrators from 14 different countries have transformed 15 of Cixin Liu's – "China's answer to Arthur C. Clarke" (New Yorker) – award-winning stories into graphic novels. The Sun is dying. Helium will soon permeate its core, triggering a violent explosion, and its burning-hot diameter will increase until it has consumed everything that stands...

Join Lightning, Mater and their friends as they embark on an epic road trip! Use your pencils to colour in Lightning’s adventures on the road and beyond. With 64 pages of colouring fun, this ultimate colouring book will take you on the trip of a lifetime!

Bleach: Can't Fear Your Own World, Vol. 3 is a continuation of the bestselling paranormal action-adventure manga series Bleach, now in novel form as an all-new threat arises! The Quincies’ Thousand Year Blood War is over, but the embers of turmoil still smoulder in the Soul Society... As the Soul Society’s secrets are brought to light through the mysterious figure...

This edition has a very helpful introduction and good clear text, as well as the exceptionally excellent and detailed notes.Dr Michael Herbert, St Andrews University A useful treatment of a complex playBarry Gaines, University of New Mexico, Shakespeare Quarterly John Wilders - literary advisor to the BBC TV Shakespeare series - brings thorough scholarship and a practical understanding of performance...

Renowned author and historian Jackie French takes us back in time to Greece and Rome and explores young heroes in ancient myths and legends whose stories will now be told. Forget what you know about Cleopatra, the Egyptian queen with a fantastic hairstyle. That's only part of the story. Before she was a ruler, Cleopatra was a girl with a...

James Falconer returns in the third House of Falconer historical novel from multi-million copy bestseller Barbara Taylor Bradford. The Somme, 1916. James Falconer, once a barrow boy on a London market, stands in the trenches, awaiting the command to go over the top. Away from his business empire in London, he is simply a soldier, war the great leveller. But,...

James Norcliffe, awarded the Prime Minister’s Award for Literary Achievement in Poetry in 2022, is one of Aotearoa New Zealand’s most distinguished and beloved contemporary poets. A Day Like No Other gathers poems from his remarkable career, which includes eleven collections spanning nearly four decades. Often conversational in tone – talking (it may seem) of you and me – these...

Hawk shares the stories from his life that have helped him become a skateboarding hero. He talks of being a super-competitive child who found peace on a skateboard. Classmates teased him for his interest in an uncool sport; instead of retaliating, he practiced even more. Tony Hawk Professional Skateboarder: The Autobiography will inspire readers to stand up for what they...

The heartwarming coming-of-age novel by the internationally bestselling author of Fever Pitch, High Fidelity, and About a Boy. 'There was this time when everything seemed to have come together. And so obviously it was time to go and screw it all up.' Sam is sixteen and a skater. Just so there are no terrible misunderstandings—skating = skateboarding. There's no ice....

Have you ever had a bad week? Justin Chase sure has, and this is it! He miraculously made it through the mayhem of Monday, the trauma of Tuesday, and the weirdness of Wednesday. He was throttled by Thursday and frazzled by Friday! It’s time for a nice, relaxing weekend, right? Wrong! Now it’s Saturday and Justin has to somehow survive...

“Win the morning, win the day,” that's what I always say. Join me, Baa Baa Black Belt, as I use my martial arts skills to help the lazy farm animals to rise and shine! Discover the delightful adventures in Wake Up, Sheepy Head! (Baa Baa Black Belt #2) by Gavin Aung Than. Immerse yourself in this whimsical tale where discipline...

It's quiet... too quiet in Sparkletown, and Fartboy has to face his most disgusting villain yet! Toejam! The mime-making, noise-hating, toenail cradle-catching baddy. It's up to the fartastic hero and his friends to save the day. Will Fartboy break the silence and rescue the citizens of Sparkletown?

Tamzin Pook is a fighter in the Amusement Arcade. And what she does best is killing Revenants. All she knows is survival, having arrived in the Arcade as a small child. She doesn’t dare to hope or wish for anything more than to survive another day. Meanwhile, the wheeled city of Motoropolis has been taken over by a rebel faction...

In the Jingle Jangle Jungle on a cold and rainy day, four little friends found a perfect place to play. Moose had marvellous antlers, and Lion, a golden mane. Zebra had fantastic stripes and Sheep ... well, Sheep was plain. When four friends encounter a cranky bear, Moose, Lion and Zebra all think they know how to cheer him up....

There was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly introduces an old lady who not only swallows a fly, but also Bo Beep’s lamb, Humpty Dumpty, and many other nursery rhyme friends! This hilarious book twists the familiar tale of the old lady who swallowed a fly by incorporating many other well-loved nursery rhyme characters. Children will love the funny,...

There's a Hole in My Bucket, dear Liza, dear Liza... This traditional 'infinite loop' song is given the country treatment by the iconic Topp Twins, and the characters of Henry and Liza have been brought to uproarious life with Jenny Cooper’s hysterical illustrations! Includes a CD of the song recorded by the Topp Twins that will bring a chuckle to...

Rediscover your favourite Lighthouse Keeper picture book in this special 45th Anniversary Edition! Once there was a lighthouse keeper called Mr Grinling... Mr Grinling LOVES his food, especially the scrumptious lunch Mrs Grinling sends him every day. But - oh no! - he's not the only one who likes a snack and the local seagulls have started stealing Mrs Grinling's...

Give me your buns and your biscuits! Give me your chocolate eclairs! For I am the Rat of the highway, and the Rat Thief never shares! Life is not safe for the other animals as the villainous Highway Rat gallops along the highway, stealing their food. Clover from a rabbit, nuts from a squirrel—he even steals his own horse's hay....

Martin Kennedy is the tidiest boy in the world’s tidiest town. Martin is so neat and clean that he has never ever farted—UNTIL NOW... A freak accident dooms Martin to a dreadful destiny of baked beans and bottom blowouts. With the help of the Grand Fart Master, can Martin learn to harness the power of his new skill and use...

Can Phoenix and her friends survive the Nether—and discover the secrets of her past? Sheltered by the monks who guard the border world around Xenos, Phoenix longs for another adventure and for any clue that might help her discover her true identity. Then two ambassadors appear looking for a girl spoken about in their ancient legends—a miner girl just like...

Emily has lost control of her Amulet and is imprisoned in the Void, where she must find a way to escape the influence of the Voice. Meanwhile, Emily's brother, Navin, travels to Lighthouse One, a space station where the Resistance is preparing to battle the approaching Shadow forces that would drain planet Alledia of all its resources. Emily and Navin...