NEW RELEASES
In a world that demands faith in progress and growth, Limbo is a companion for the stuck, the isolated, delayed, stranded, and trapped. Fusing family memoir with a meditation on creative block, depression, solitude, class, place and the intractable politics of our present moment, Fox considers the role that fallow periods and states of impasse play in art and life. Limbo employs a cast of artists, exiles, ghosts, hermits and sailors to reflect on the creative, emotional and political consequences of being stuck, and how these are also crucial to our understanding of inspiration, flow and productivity. Limbo argues that there can be no growth without stagnancy, no movement without inactivity, and no progress without refusal.
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A stunning book featuring 20 of Andrew Patterson's recent houses, demonstrating the architect's sensitivity both to the landscape and to the personalities of his clients. This volume includes sections on Patterson's influences, such as the culture and lifestyles of New Zealand, and Maori architecture, art, and mythology. Spare and beautiful.
The essayist, according to Franzen, is like "a firefighter, whose job, when everyone else is fleeing the flames of shame, is to run straight into them." These essays address Franzen's great loves, literature and birds, and much else beyond and thereby. Where the new media tend to confirm one's prejudices, he writes, literature "invites you to ask whether you might be wrong, maybe even entirely wrong, and to imagine why someone else might hate you." The cumulative effect of the essays is strangely hopeful, however. Includes a meditation on New Zealand seabirds.
Lissaman designed, threw, decorated, fired and sold her first significant collection of pots in 1927 and potted continuously until 1990, spanning New Zealand’s studio pottery movements. Her life, work and importance is explored in this superb new book.
>> Come and meet Jane Vial and Steve Austin, and find out more about the potter and the book. Monday 3 December, 5:30 PM at VOLUME.
"I've begun to think of short poems as being the literary equivalent of the small house movement. Small houses contain the same essential spaces as large houses do. Both have places in which to eat, sleep, bathe and sit; they're the same, except small houses are, well, smaller." -Jenny Bornholdt
A beautifully presented and thoughtful selection of short verse from well-known poets, new voices and rediscovered poets.
“Autobiography crept up on me like a wolf.” A new translation of Ginzburg's superb autobiographical novel, telling the story of a Jewish family in Italy from the 1920s to the 1950s, of surviving the fascist years, and of the importance of language to surviving change.
"Ginzburg gives us a new template for the female voice and an idea of what it might sound like." - Rachel Cusk
"I am utterly entranced by Ginzburg's style - her mysterious directness, her salutary ability to lay things bare that never feels contrived or cold, only necessary, honest, clear." - Maggie Nelson
>>Hiding in plain sight.
Follow rivers around the world (including the Waikato!) and learn about the people and history that belong along their banks. This large-format picture book is packed with information that will suggest further exploration.
>> Goes at work.
>> Other wonderful books by Peter Goes.
When Norwegian photographer Peter Lukas visited Nelson, he was so impressed with the photographic collections at the Nelson Provincial Museum that he set out to photograph the same street views as they appear today. The result is this wonderful book: historical photographs paired with their modern equivalents.
A beautifully illustrated book for children, showing how East and West have been tied together by people, trade, disease, war, religion, adventure, science and technology, along the trade routes of the Silk Roads. Frankopan's The Silk Roads (the adult history) is a remarkable book, showing that much often overlooked history should be central to our view of the past. This book does the same, for children.
'I have never before in my life kept a diary of my thoughts, and here at the start of my ninth decade, having for the moment nothing much else to write, I am having a go at it. Good luck to me.'
"Morris is one of Britain's greatest living writers." - The Times
"Fascinating. Valuable and rare. This book is a writer's constitutional." - Kate Kellaway, Observer
"A bountiful cornucopia of insightful essays that display the wide range of his interests and tastes. McPhee delights in cracking open subjects, both ordinary and esoteric, and making them accessible to the layperson in works that testify to his virtuosity as one of the greatest living American essayists." - Publishers Weekly
Whaling in the Marlborough Sounds from the 1830s. Sealing and whaling in the Southern Ocean, sailing from New South Wales to New Zealand, Te Rauparaha’s battles with Ngāi Tahu, Jacky Guard and his Port Underwood and Kaikoura whaling stations. Te Ātiawa, Ngāti Toa, Ngāi Tahu and Rangitane history, the seige of Ngāmotu, New Zealand Company settlements, the naming of Pelorus Sound and Tory Channel, Picton fish factories and the Perano whalers, family life at Te Awaiti, Campbell Island whalers, Queen Charlotte Sound and early Marlborough history.
A lyrical epic based the author's experiences in World War One, culminating at the Somme.
"The holy book of twentieth-century visionary modernism. Ancient and brand-new, In Parenthesis is Britain's book of all books, an incomparable and ever-intensifying masterpiece. It is radical, beautiful, humane and mysterious. It is a book about war that has the power to defeat death. It is a living breathing mythic miracle of a book." - Max Porter
It's autumn in the hidden valley. Yula has painted a farewell picture for her friend Ticky, who is flying away for the winter, but a big wind tears it from her hands, starting an eccentric adventure that will find new friends (and unexpected art). Delightful.
A beautifully drawn history, from prehistoric times(!) to the latest special effects.
Explores the story behind the promotion of New Zealand's mountains through posters, advertisements, hand-coloured photographs and more.
When Nora falls in love with Javo, she is caught in the web of his addiction; and as he moves between loving her and leaving, between his need for her and promises broken, Nora's life becomes an intense dance of loving and trying to let go. A very nice new hardcover edition of this important novel, first published in 1977, a novel that shines a light on a time and a place and a way of living never before presented in Australian literature: communal households, music, friendships, children, love, drugs, and sex.
>> Also available in this hardback series: The Children's Bach, Stories, True Stories.
As a lecturer in physiology from 1923 to 1927, Bell had been one of the first women academics at Otago Medical School. In 1937 she became a foundation member of the Medical Research Council, serving for two decades, and was appointed New Zealand's first state nutritionist in 1940, a position she held for almost a quarter of a century. Muriel Bell was behind ground-breaking public health schemes such as milk in schools, iodised salt and water fluoridation. Why haven't we heard of her?
Fifteen years after legislation passed in 2003 decriminalising the sex industry, this book, largely assembled from the accounts of interviewees representing the breadth and diversity of the sex workers, gives real insight into the experiences of women, men and transgender people involved in the industry.
Ethiopia contains some of the most fertile land in Africa, the produce that is grown here, and the cultural and historical backgrounds of the people who live here, have given rise to a distinctive cuisine.
A bomb is born, lives and dies in a demented rural school; Ireland experiences a rain of corpses falling from the sky; a strange tribal matriarchy on the banks of the River Boyne is threatened with extermination. In these five long stories the world breaks down in an endless cycle of hunger, desperation, violence and domination.
"The best new young writer in Ireland." - Colin Barrett
"Think Flann O'Brien on rocket fuel." - Joseph O'Connor
Throughout the history of film, cinema has been considered a cause as much as an industry.
Uptight elfin historian Brangwain Spurge is on a mission: survive being catapulted across the mountains into goblin territory, deliver a priceless peace offering to their mysterious dark lord, and spy on the goblin kingdom (from which no elf has returned alive in more than a hundred years). Brangwain's host, the goblin archivist Werfel, is delighted to show Brangwain around. They should be the best of friends, but a series of extraordinary double crosses, blunders, and cultural misunderstandings throws these two bumbling scholars into the middle of an international crisis that may spell death for them - and war for their nations. A beautifully illustrated hardback.
Mobility justice is one of the crucial political and ethical issues of our day. We are in the midst of a global climate crisis and extreme challenges of urbanisation. At the same time it is difficult to ignore the deaths of thousands of migrants at sea or in deserts, the xenophobic treatment of foreign-born populations, refugees and asylum seekers, as well as the persistence of racist violence and ethnic exclusions. This, in turn, is connected to other kinds of uneven mobility-relations between people, access to transport, urban infrastructures and global resources such as food, water, and energy.
A charming book. "Never ever put your hand through a ghost. It can cause a serious tummy ache."
Greychild is abandoned in the woods. Mistaken for a wolf, he is taken to Brunt Boggart, a village steeped in legend and folklore, a village in which stories happen.
A card game stimulating thought exercises that are not only fun but release your creative energy. Recommended.
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