Originally published in 1968. Filled with delightful pictures of yesterday's homes. $16
Low Volume: 17 March
We are starting a concert series in store. First one is tomoz. Come along if you are in Ponsonby.
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A teeny delight for $4.
Micro-concert: this Friday 1:30pm
Are you a peasant?
Compare and contrast your experience. $9
Need to get out?
Get some ideas for $9.
Choose your own adventure
Paradeless
Today's St Patrick's parade along Ponsonby Road has been cancelled. Not hard to see why sadly.
We are still drinking delicious filter coffee at the bookstore. Come look out at the rain through the delightful new windows.
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Knock knock
A set of short stories from Aucklander Charlotte Grimshaw. A finalist for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story award when it came out in 2007. Yours for $9.
Lee Child
Always popular. The fifteenth book in the 21 book series, for those of you who are collecting. $9
Scandaphilia
A delightful hardback of culture and style from the North. $16
Ponsonby Market Day this Saturday and St Patrick's parade on Sunday
The bookstore is open from 10am both days.
Come take a wander around the shelves or enjoy a seat in the backyard out of the bustle. We will have free delicious filter coffee to accompany your sitting around.
On Sunday, the St Patrick's Parade runs from 12pm to 1pm, starting at Ponsonby Terrace and travelling up Ponsonby Road to Western Park. The music and dance festival is in the park from from 11am until 5pm.
Pacific islands
A collectible edition in fabulous condition of this classic work on life in Samoa in the mid 19th century. $140
Poetry
The tragically short life of American poet Sylvia Plath. Yours for $14.
More beautiful notebooks just in
Take one old novel. Remove some pages. Add a spiral binding, recycled paper and some careful attention to detail. And hey presto! You are holding in your hands the finished article: a one-of-kind, hand-assembled, lovingly-crafted notebook. We guarantee there is no other like it on this earth. Yours for $15.
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A collaboration with our friends at Lovenotes.
Controversy
The thoughts of a man in the news. $10
Encounters of the third kind
There are three sorts of sailing books:
- Technical guides
- I did a crazy thing on a boat (and survived)
- Thoughts I had while sailing
This is one of the third. Amazing. And just $9.
Not so chirpy
Want some dark suspense with your Sunday? From Emily Perkins, Christchurch-born, Wellington-resident. Just $7.
A new hope
The end of the much-maligned tinted front window and the opening of a new bifold chapter.
This just in
Elmore Leonard! A crime fiction master. A steal for $10