NEW RELEASES
What happens when a surgeon makes a mistake? The consequences and the contributing factors of and to misadventure reach deeply into the personal and professional lives of those involved. Elizabeth Taylor's life has been defined by her perfectionism but now it is dominated by her mistake.
Uses the 2016 Havelock North campylobacter outbreak, which contaminated the water supply and affected 40% of the population, to identify shortcomings in the country's health infrastructure. These shortcomings, largely stemming from poor investment and leadership, result in sub-optimal provision for everything from child nutrition to cancer management. Skegg shows that, while personal health care is important, we neglect public health at our peril. Important.
A wonderful set of autobiographical essays, recounting facets of Ginzburg's life in Italy and London, facets in which so much else is reflected. Also recently released: Family Lexicon.
"Ginzburg’s magic is the utter simplicity of her prose, suddenly illuminated by one word that makes a lightning streak of a plain phrase." —The New York Times Book Review
"A punch-you-in-the-stomach-with-grief-and-beauty masterpiece." - Maggie Nelson
>> "If Ferrante is a friend, Ginzburg is a mentor."
A new poetry collection, sharing with the recent novel In the City of Love's Sleep Greenlaw's fine eye for the usually unnoticed nuances of human interaction and the metaphysics of memory and loss.
>> The Vast Extent.
An interesting volume comprising the narratorial script for the film The Innocence of Memories, which explores the actual museum Pamuk assembled as a sort of illustration for his novel The Museum of Innocence. Also included is a transcript of a conversation between Pamuk and director Grant Gee, and film stills.
>> Official trailer.
>> The complete film (unofficial; low quality).
Katharine Smyth was a student at Oxford when she first read Virginia Woolf's modernist masterpiece To the Lighthouse in the comfort of an English sitting room, and in the companionable silence she shared with her father. After his death she returned to that novel as a way of wrestling with his memory and understanding her own grief.
“The call of the sea is the call to the absolute strength of women.”
"This hybrid of nature journal and motherhood memoir is a delightfully idiosyncratic prose debut that mixes memoir with history and cultural criticism to explore some of the ways in which the sea inspires and connects women in art and life. Runcie's prose is defined by cool confidence and unshowy clarity, allowing its more poetic observations, of which there are plenty, to glimmer like glass pebbles." - Guardian
Stories exploring sex and sexuality, parenthood, relationships, the connections between generations, death, ambition, and loss.
"Exquisite." - Guardian
"Beautifully pressed into print." - The Times
"A short-story collection to savour." - Irish Times
A deeply considered survey of the representation of women in nineteenth and twentieth century art.
A set of remarkable absurdist short stories springing from the uncertainty and fluidity of a war zone.
"Maarouf’s stories are deeply peculiar, occasionally touching and often very funny. They are also beautifully translated by Jonathan Wright, who renders Maarouf’s language in sprightly, elegant prose." - Guardian
In 1966 Vollie Frade, almost on a whim, enlists in the United States Marine Corps to fight in Vietnam. Breaking definitively from his rural Iowan parents, Vollie puts in motion a chain of events that sees him go to work for people with intentions he cannot yet grasp. From the Cambodian jungle, to a flophouse in Queens, to a commune in New Mexico, Vollie's path traces a secret history of life on the margins of America.
"Salvatore Scibona is gravely, terminally, a born writer - a high artist and exquisite craftsman. Yes his sentences are perfect but not merely; a surplus of dark and tender wisdom, who knows the source, makes his language - and the world - glow with meaning." - Rachel Kushner
Sky bears witness to the demands of young people for dignity and justice during the Arab Spring; the inability of sclerotic regimes to reform; the descent of Syria into civil war; the rise of the Islamic State; and the flight of refugees to Europe. With deep empathy for its people and an extensive understanding of the Middle East, Sky makes a complex region more comprehensible. From the author of The Unravelling.
A novel tracing the trajectories of two Prague schoolfriends and one-time lovers, Jana and Zorka, as they move to the west and shape lives for themselves there. From the author of The Natashas.
"A fine, fraught, strange novel. Nonchalantly cool, heedlessly independent and puzzlingly askew. It’s also hard to resist." - Guardian
"Astonishing. A definitive study." - Financial Times
"Goodman’s scholarship is formidable." - Guardian
“David Macey’s endeavour was to break down the various elements of Michel Foucault’s life into their many different facets. And he did so with great success. The author delightfully weaves together the key moments in Foucault’s life and writing with his activist interventions and his engagement in the struggles around homosexuality, mental illness and prison. He thus brings out a fascinating, enigmatic character of extraordinary intelligence, who succeeded in composing a polyphonic oeuvre that was sadly cut short by his untimely death." – Elisabeth Roudinesco
>> Meet Michel.
>> The Disappearance of Man.
What do all these statements have in common? "We do not cover one square inch of any other nation." "American has never been an empire." "The United States wants no territory." " We are not imperialistic." The US is the only great power without a history of imperialistic claims." " America covets no one else's land. We seek no one else's treasures." Two things: They were all said by US presidents. And they are all false.
"I wish I wasn't the weirdest sixteen-year-old guy in the universe." Felix would love to have been a number. Numbers have superpowers and they're safe - any problem they might throw up can be solved. People are so much harder to cope with. At least that's how it seems until Bailey Hunter arrives at school. Bailey has a stutter, but he can make friends and he's good at judo. And Bailey seems to have noticed Felix. Both boys find they're living in a world where they can't trust anyone, but might they be able to trust each other, with their secrets, their differences, themselves? Another novel from the excellent New Zealand YA author of Catch Me When You Fall and Pieces of You.
Keep your eyes open. Populism and nationalism don't march fully-formed into government; they creep.
Unlike the Heart: A memoir of brain and mind by Nicola Redhouse $37
What role do genetics play in postnatal anxiety? Do the biological changes of motherhood offer a complete explanation? Is the Freudian idea of the mind outdated? Can more recent combined theories from neuroscientists and psychoanalysts provide the answers? How might we be able to know ourselves both through our genes, our biology, our family stories and our own ever-unfolding narratives?
Questions I am Asked about the Holocaust by Heidi Fried $35
"There are no stupid questions, nor any forbidden ones, but there are some questions that have no answer." Hedi Fried was nineteen when the Nazis snatched her family from their home in Eastern Europe and transported them to Auschwitz, where her parents were murdered and she and her sister were forced into hard labour until the end of the war. Now ninety-four, she has spent her life educating young people about the Holocaust and answering their questions about one of the darkest periods in human history.
We are Okay by Nina LaCour $24
Marin hasn't spoken to anyone from her old life since the day she left everything behind. No one knows the truth about those final weeks. Not even her best friend Mabel.
“A meditation on surviving grief, We Are Okay is short, poetic and gorgeously written. The power in this little book is in seeing Marin come out on the other side of loss, able to appreciate a beautiful yellow-glazed pottery bowl and other people’s kindnesses, and to understand that she might one day have a girlfriend and a future. The world LaCour creates is fragile but profoundly humane.” —The New York Times Book Review
Peach by Emma Glass $23
Peach has an ordinary teenage life until something awful happens. Suddenly her world is thrown out of joint, and she is uncertain what she will find in her own depths. New edition.
"A strange and original work of art." - George Saunders
"Ferocious, startling, all-consuming." - Daisy Johnson
Simple and Classic: 123 step-by-step recipes by Jane Hornby $70
A selection of the favourite and most useful recipes from What to Cook and How to Cook It, Fresh and Easy, and What to Bake and How to Bake It.
What role do genetics play in postnatal anxiety? Do the biological changes of motherhood offer a complete explanation? Is the Freudian idea of the mind outdated? Can more recent combined theories from neuroscientists and psychoanalysts provide the answers? How might we be able to know ourselves both through our genes, our biology, our family stories and our own ever-unfolding narratives?
"There are no stupid questions, nor any forbidden ones, but there are some questions that have no answer." Hedi Fried was nineteen when the Nazis snatched her family from their home in Eastern Europe and transported them to Auschwitz, where her parents were murdered and she and her sister were forced into hard labour until the end of the war. Now ninety-four, she has spent her life educating young people about the Holocaust and answering their questions about one of the darkest periods in human history.
Marin hasn't spoken to anyone from her old life since the day she left everything behind. No one knows the truth about those final weeks. Not even her best friend Mabel.
“A meditation on surviving grief, We Are Okay is short, poetic and gorgeously written. The power in this little book is in seeing Marin come out on the other side of loss, able to appreciate a beautiful yellow-glazed pottery bowl and other people’s kindnesses, and to understand that she might one day have a girlfriend and a future. The world LaCour creates is fragile but profoundly humane.” —The New York Times Book Review
Peach has an ordinary teenage life until something awful happens. Suddenly her world is thrown out of joint, and she is uncertain what she will find in her own depths. New edition.
"A strange and original work of art." - George Saunders
"Ferocious, startling, all-consuming." - Daisy Johnson
A selection of the favourite and most useful recipes from What to Cook and How to Cook It, Fresh and Easy, and What to Bake and How to Bake It.
The Story of Sex: From apes to robots by Philippe Brenot and Laetitia Coryn $38
A graphic novel tracing humans' changing attitudes towards sexual expression.
Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2019 edited by Jack Ross $35
The usual and the unusual suspects, with featured poet Stephanie Christie. 130 new poems, reviews of 30 poetry collections, essays on poetical subjects.
The School of Numbers by Emily Hawkins and Daniel Frost $33
Excellent exploration of mathematical concepts for children.
Madame Sonia Delaunay by Gerard Lo Monaco $33
This colourful pop-up book is a showcase of paper engineering.
Faber Stories series $10 each
A nicely presented series of outstanding short stories from Kazuo Ishiguro, Djuna Barnes, Sally Rooney, Samuel Beckett, Flannery O'Connor, Robert Aickman, Edna O'Brien, P.D. James, Akhil Sharma, Sylvia Plath, and others.
>> Click through to make your selection from the first set.
>> They're moving fast.
The usual and the unusual suspects, with featured poet Stephanie Christie. 130 new poems, reviews of 30 poetry collections, essays on poetical subjects.
Excellent exploration of mathematical concepts for children.
This colourful pop-up book is a showcase of paper engineering.
A nicely presented series of outstanding short stories from Kazuo Ishiguro, Djuna Barnes, Sally Rooney, Samuel Beckett, Flannery O'Connor, Robert Aickman, Edna O'Brien, P.D. James, Akhil Sharma, Sylvia Plath, and others.
>> Click through to make your selection from the first set.
>> They're moving fast.
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