The Wish Child by Catherine Chidgey

$30.00 NZD

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Winner of the New Zealand Book Award for Fiction Germany, 1939. Two children watch as their parents become immersed in the puzzling mechanisms of power. Siggi lives in the affluent ignorance of middle-class Berlin, her father a censor who excises prohibited words ('promise', 'love', 'mercy'). Erich is an only child living a lush rural life, aware that he is shadowed by strange, unanswered questions. Drawn together as Germany's hope for a glorious future begins to collapse, the children find temporary refuge in an abandoned theatre amidst the rubble of Berlin. The days they spend there together will shape the rest of their lives. Watching over Siggi and Erich is the wish child. He sees what they see, he feels what they feel, yet his is a voice that comes from deep inside the wreckage of a nation's dream. ...Show more

From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Pearl Harbor: Front-line Dispatches from the Advertising War by Jerry Della Femina

$30.00 NZD

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A classic piece of writing that inspired a hit TV show. Mad Men is the series that's got everyone talking - and with good reason, having won nine Emmys, five Golden Globes and beating The Wire to the 'Best International Award' at the 2009 Baftas. Jerry Della Femina's advertising classic, first published in the US in 1971, is the original guide to life on Madison Avenue in the 1960s - and it was an inspiration for series one of Mad Men, with Jerry an advisor to the show. Packed full of eccentric characters and interesting anecdotes, it is a gloriously gossipy and irreverent account. It is also full of fascinating advertising campaigns: the Volkswagen 'Think Small' campaign which gave the company their big break in the US; the cake mix which relied on the breaking of a single egg; or Marlboro Man in Marlboro Country - an all-time classic. With a new Mad Men-inspired cover and a campaign to rival those of Madison Avenue this is a non-fiction treat. ...Show more

Lair of the Fire Lizard (Team Hero Special 01) by Adam Blade

$16.99 NZD

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An epic new adventure series from bestselling author Adam Blade! Ordinary kids with extraordinary powers gather in a secret school to be trained to fight the forces of darkness. Hero Academy teacher Ms Steel is missing and Jack, Ruby and Danny are determined to find her. Their quest takes them to an u nderground swamp: the lair of the dreaded Tartania! ...Show more

Pianos and Flowers: Brief Encounters of the Romantic Kind (HB) by Alexander McCall Smith

$15.00 NZD

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In Pianos and Flowers we are invited, through the medium of sepia images, to glimpse a world long departed. In these stories, inspired by long-lost photographs, the lives of the people in the frame are imagined and then explored, layer by layer. What must have it like to be them? We hold our breath for them. Our heart beats faster for them. We look again at the photograph in a new light, and say Yes, it might have happened just like that.This journey of exploration takes us to some exotic places. We share the lives of three sisters, brought up in Penang. We read of what happened to them, and to their Chinese neighbours caught in the tides of war. We see a group of small boys in a Glasgow slum, their young lives stunted by poverty, and hear how life worked out in contrasting ways for them. We follow a young woman's search for love in the unlikely realm of Egyptian antiquities. And through all of these photographs, and all of these stories, there runs the same refrain: the possibilities of love, of friendship, of happiness lie before us.There are big stories in these simple pictures. At first glance the photographs may seem unexceptional: the mere freezing of a moment in time. But delve deeper and you will realise that these photographs speak volumes. ...Show more

Photographic: The Life of Graciela Iturbide by Isabel Quintero; Zeke Peña (Illustrator)

$38.00 NZD

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Award-winning YA author Quintero and artist Pe-a deliver a symbolic, poetic, and deeply personal profile in the first graphic biography of iconic Mexican photographer Graciela Iturbide.

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$19.99 NZD

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