NEW RELEASES
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When Roxy's husband and his lover are killed in a car accident, Roxy will not be denied her revenge. Who will she direct this at, though?Written in a concise, lucid style, this book is a clear exploration of the emotional weight grief and anger lever upon ordinary details.
"Gerritsen's skillful writing creates tension with its forward-propelling relentless plot, a compelling awkward narrator and uncertain outcomes. The clever ironic conversations between the characters and zany happenings hit you like a slap, while what is unsaid, what is hinted at and implied between the words and lines on the page, jolts you awake. Like Craving, Roxy is a candid portrayal of damage and trauma, sometimes shocking, often blackly funny." - Stella
A very appealing graphic novel weaving together three narrative strands: true-life Arctic expeditions from 1912 and 1926, and a contemporary story of a professor tracking the fates of the earlier expeditions.
The Ukraine was once bristling with statues of Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Lenin. Political changes have left these toppled, broken, vandalised and stored in sheds and back rooms. Ackerman and Gobert have set about recording these statues, and the residual attitudes towards them amongst the Ukrainians.
The excellent Monsieur Dutilleul has always been able to pass through walls, but has never seen the point of using his gift, given the general availability of doors. One day, however, his tyrannical boss drives him to desperate, creative measures - he develops a taste for intramural travel and becomes something of a super-villain. How will the unassuming clerk adjust to a glamorous life of crime?
Two people and a dog sail out amongst ships of all kinds in this inventive pop-up book. There are even life-rings and mooring ropes. A lovely book.
A novel telling how (and why) Fletcher Christian led the mutineers who seized the Bounty from Captain Bligh, and all that happened after the mutineers settled on Pitcairn.
Lay's James Cook trilogy was very well regarded.
>> Reason for mutiny.
An exquisitely designed and produced survey of the photography and installations of the remarkable contemporary Chinese artist.
>> Gao Bo had a major retrospective in Paris this year.
Artist Gangu Bai records and explores her memories of growing up in traditional Bhil culture in central India, a culture making no distinction between the natural and the human world.
Davies questions the values and judgements that are so often the mainstay of architectural surveys, and in doing so asks: what is the importance of the style we know as Modernism?
A darkly satirical account of a childhood spent in times of war. The book involves the transformation of people into animals and features a boy more at home with numbers than with people. The book is set in Sri Lanka, but the story is relevant anywhere that children are robbed of their childhood by war.
A wonderful, scary myriorama: the 20 cards can be laid out in any order making a seamless story scene of almost infinite variety.
Excellent and amusing graphic biographies.
An astounding culinary journey through the various regions of Mexico, profiling nuns; grande dames; campesinos; barrio residents; creatives in the arts, architecture, music, film and media; businesspeople - and chefs and giving real insight into local food cultures. Beautifully illustrated.
Why do we respond to music in the way we do? How does music reveal and affect parts of our minds not accessible to linguistic and verbal approaches? What kinds of understanding can we achieve through music?
An illicit air convoy of drugs and weapons disappears somewhere over the Sahara. An aid worker watches helplessly as the refugees she is attempting to save are brutally betrayed. A mysterious Englishman sets up a solar farm in the desert, and his attempts to bring free energy to Africa make him the target of callous international businessmen, hell-bent on destroying his vision for a more humane world. As jihadists stop at nothing to recover the contents of the missing air convoy, and as millions attempt to escape famine and genocide by crossing the African continent to find a way into Europe, the genii are watching from the skies. Speculative fiction grounded in contemporary issues.
Not everyone likes the same things. It seems that everyone is happy on a sunny day - except for a lonely raincloud and a lonely, grumpy little girl. Can they find their own happiness?
The 20 double-sided pictorial pieces can be put together in any order, creating any number of inventive (and spooky (but not too spooky)) stories.
The war of 1967 dramatically redrew the map of Israel and Palestine, and changed the lives of millions of people both in the Middle East and across the world. Analysing the historical origins of the annexation of the West Bank and Gaza in the 1920s and 30s, Pappe goes on to examine the bureaucratic apparatus that has been developed to manage this occupation, from the political, legal, financial and even dietary measures to the military and security plans put in place over almost half a century.
The turbulence of the financial markets is often explained in terms of the immorality of market agents, misguided economic theory or unsuitable regulation. Even when these explanations are not false ones, they leave aside the main problem: the nature of financial value.
Everyone can spend hours enjoying these mazes, searches and odd-one-outers. Beautiful hand-drawn illustrations in a large-format hardback book.
A practical guide and a source of inspiration for finding and responding to the wilderness around you, and withing you too. Includes photographs and hand-drawn illustrations.
When Thomas Powell and his family left Leeds, England, and sailed out to India in the early 1850s, they little realised that within a few years they would be living in New Zealand and facing different futures. An interesting family history illuminating life and issues in and around Wanganui in the 1860s and 1870s. Local author.
Textured artwork and text translated also into Braille help children to gain understanding of what it might be like to apprehend the world without the sense of sight.
Match the iconic actors with the equally iconic images from 25 iconic films. Reinforce your knowledge of popular culture with notes to the films, from the leading indie film magazine.
The leading forensic cyberpsychologist examines the various ways human behaviour changes on-line.
Can large-scale kelp farming absorb carbon surpluses (and solve our other problems, too)?
No longer a pariah in the fridge. Includes the science behind this 'nutritional powerhouse'.
Fourteen-year-old Sin is training to be a spy for the Covert Operations Group, but her life (and other people's lives) is in danger in this steampunk adventure. New Zealand author (when he's not being a New Zealand bookseller!).
A lifetime on the left, including 10 years as a Green MP.
The definitive survey of the art of this dropper of depth-charges in the psyche.
Classed and 'enemy aliens' in the US, the 'Ritchie Boys' returned to Europe as a secret elite army unit, detailed particularly with gathering intelligence and interrogation. A little-known history.
Match the monsters and the crazy creatures. Don't let Clarence put you off your tea.
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