Stop the Clock - A Memoir on Ageing with Dignity, Grace and Humour by Gordon McLauchlan

$29.99 NZD

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The best way to learn anything is by doing it - this is a maxim that goes back to Aristotle. Gordon McLauchlan agrees. He has concluded that the only way of learning how to manage growing old is by growing old. He doesn't believe that wisdom is necessarily a concomitant of old age but suggests that, whi le there is no fool like an old fool, it is also true that there is no sage like an old sage. Borrowing quotes from philosophers and writers collected in a Commonplace Book over more than sixty years, Gordon traces his own ascent into the eighties. Ascent, he insists, not descent as so many politicians and economists would claim as they discuss the concerns of the ageing the way parents sometimes speak to each other about their children in the same room. ...Show more

Ripiro Beach - A Memoir of Life after Near Death by Caroline Barron

$34.99 NZD

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Does DNA write our destinies? Or do the hands that nurture triumph over nature? What is it that determines who we really are? Caroline Barron's father never found his birth mother. After he dies suddenly on her twentieth birthday, Caroline develops an insidious fear of her own untimely death. When she n early bleeds out on an operating table during childbirth, it almost seems her greatest fear is justified. Emerging from the experience a changed woman, Caroline spends the next six years poring over her family history in an attempt to make sense of her inexplicable rage. The family secrets she unearths threaten to destabilise her identity and carefully built life, eventually leading her to Northland's rugged Ripiro Beach, where past and present dramatically collide. Ripiro Beach is a beautifully written, relentlessly honest memoir about one woman's determination to gather the threads of a life that has come undone. ...Show more

Mammoth Stew by Bob Darroch

$19.99 NZD

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Inga was so hungry he could eat . . . a mammoth! His mum's recipe was simple enough for him to make himself. First, he must catch a mammoth. If only it were that easy . . . Award-winning author and illustrator of the Little Kiwi stories, Bob Darroch shares this charming prehistoric tale of a cooking ca tastrophe and an unlikely friendship. ...Show more

The Sleepwalker by Joseph Knox

$37.00 NZD

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'He said he didn't remember killing them...' As a series of rolling blackouts plunge the city into darkness, Detective Aidan Waits sits on an abandoned hospital ward, watching a mass murderer slowly die. Transferred from his usual night shift duties and onto protective custody, he has just one job... To extract the location of Martin Wick's final victim before the notorious mass murderer passes away. Wick has spent over a decade in prison, in near-total silence, having confessed to an unspeakable crime that shocked the nation and earned him the nickname of The Sleepwalker. But when a daring premeditated attack leaves one police officer dead and another one fighting for his life, Wick's whispered last words will send Waits on a journey into the heart of darkness... Manipulated by a reticent psychopath from his past, and under investigation from his new partner, Detective Constable Naomi Black, Waits realises too late that a remorseless contract killer is at work. Can Aidan Waits solve his last case before fleeing justice? Or will his name be next on the hit list? ...Show more

The Sound of Breaking Glass by Kirsten Warner

$35.00 NZD

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'I am driving up the Curran Street on-ramp and ahead of me Milk Bottle Man is dashing up the safety railing on the Harbour Bridge. He jumps onto the superstructure and runs up to the national flag. He is jumping from foot to foot and holding two figures in each hand – they must be the size of real peopl e but look like toys because he is vastly inflated and up so high. Each swing of his giant arm, although it looks slow from a distance, would have enough force to dislodge the brains inside those skulls.’  Christel is at shattering point. She’s got two small children, her job in reality television is super high stress, she’s an activist with Women Against Surplus Plastic and now she’s being stalked. To top it off her protest milk bottle sculpture appears to have come to life like the golem of Jewish folklore and is reviving characters from a past she can hardly bear to confront.  Christel is Second Generation – her father was a Holocaust survivor and a refugee to New Zealand after the war – and she cannot focus on the problems in front of her without dealing with an inheritance th​at is both​​ murky and unresolvable. And how to live with ​the secrets she begins to uncover?  Set in Auckland in the 1990s, The Sound of Breaking Glass is that rare thing – a book that crackles with end-of-millennium urban life ​while vib­rating with a history that’s impossible to forget. ...Show more

A Splendid Sin. Michelangelo: A Renaissance Affair by Alana Bolton Cooke

$29.99 NZD

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Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarrotti has risen into Rome's artistic elite, and the ailing Pope Clement commissions him topaint The Last Judgement. When the artist apprentices Tomasso, a young nobleman, to be his muse and inspiration, Michelangelo must contend with the conflict between his growing love a nd his fear of eternal damnation. Rumours of their relationship lead the paranoid Cardinal de Cesena to bribe members of Michelangelo's household to discover the truth behind the whispers. Can Michelangelo hide his feelings from both the churchand himself, or will The Last Judgement destroy him? ...Show more

This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor - The Sunday Times Bestseller by Adam Kay

$22.99 NZD

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'Painfully funny. The pain and the funniness somehow add up to something entirely good, entirely noble and entirely loveable.' - Stephen FryThe Sunday Times Number One Bestseller and Humour Book of the YearWinner of the Books Are My Bag Book of the YearWinner of iBooks' Book of the YearWelcome to the li fe of a junior doctor: 97-hour weeks, life and death decisions, a constant tsunami of bodily fluids, and the hospital parking meter earns more than you.Scribbled in secret after endless days, sleepless nights and missed weekends, Adam Kay's This is Going to Hurt provides a no-holds-barred account of his time on the NHS front line. Hilarious, horrifying and heartbreaking, this diary is everything you wanted to know - and more than a few things you didn't - about life on and off the hospital ward.As seen on ITV's Zoe Ball Book Club This edition includes extra diary entries and a new afterword by the author. ...Show more

The Boat That Brought Me by Nick Bridge

$30.00 NZD

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Mystic Portal

$0.00 NZD

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Michael I Thought You Were Dead by Michael Fitzsimons

$25.00 NZD

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I have a growing number of scars. A three-inch horizontal scar across the stomach, very tidy. Two more small ones either side of the rib cage and now one on the hand and arm to deal with a Viking inheritance. I look at them in the mirror. I hope they don't fade away completely. They are my body art. My favourite poet with a ponytail greets me warmly at the launch of his latest book of poems. Michael, he says, I thought you were dead. Now the stars are burning brightly. I am an explorer of a world beyond the letterbox. By the time I get to Nelson I will be singing again. The heart asks only for more. Michael Fitzsimons gets the news no one wants to hear and finds fear and uncertainty have taken up residence in his house, muting joy and putting the world as he knows it on hold. But in time he discovers that while his life might look like a shipwreck, there's a lifeboat waiting to take him away to a new place, where the most ordinary things gleam with their own extravagance and sorrow slowly gives way to moments of praise. To read Michael, I thought you were dead is to take up an oar and row the same boat a while - a ride not to be missed. ...Show more

Prophecy (Syllvalla Chronicles #2) by A J Ponder

$25.00 NZD

Category: Unclassified | Series: Syllvalla Chronicles

Princess Sylvalla is more than ready. She's faced dragons and proven herself a hero - but her greatest trials are about to begin. Phetero, the king she accidentally kidnapped, is determined to have vengeance - and the threat of marriage to Prince Francis looms. Francis may be sweet, have proven he can d raw swords from stones, and be the only prince in all the Seven Kingdoms who will have her, but Sylvalla is not a willing bride. Terrifying as it is, the threat of marriage becomes the least of Sylvalla's problems as King Phetero's grudge turns from war into something more sinister. The prophecies are dire, but what help can they be against the ancient horror King Phetero plans to unleash? ...Show more

Mastering Maths Basics Book 1 Wipe Clean

$13.00 NZD

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Designed to help prepare children for the New Zealand curriculum, Book 1 includes numbers 1-10 with a wipe clean surface and whiteboard marker so it can be used again and again! Filled with engaging illustrations, this book builds a child's number concepts, pen control and problem solving making it feel like fun not work. Mastering Maths Basics: Book 2 includes numbers 11-20. ...Show more