A trip to 1950s rural New Zealand. $12
Holiday brain
Book of the day: Spend some of your hols thinking. $16
Sure beats the alternative
The writeup from an experiment in happier living. $16 in hardback.
There there
Understanding everyday problems (why am I not more popular?) through the lens of philosophy. $10
Letters of note
Book of the day: How are you reading this anyway? $16
Inside voices
Book of the day: An antidote to sunshine. $16
Get out
"[S]itting on a stool from nine to five, scratching in somebody's ledger! It's a queer use to make of one's ... one and only life, isn't it?"
- Katherine Mansfield, At the Bay
Find some alternatives. $12
Out of it
Local man reviews twenty New Zealand towns. Amazing. $15
What's that, Chucky?
Impress your family with another newfound skill. Doll sold separately. $14
He looks happy
Learn a new skill for the festive season. Also, dress like a mime. $7
Here be finches
Can't compete in Bird of the Year, seeing as how it is introduced. But the author certainly thinks a lot of them. Hardback. Beaut dust jacket. Collectible. $55
An antidote to summer
If you are in to adventure stories, how about a 1,400km trek to Vostok, a Russian research station in Antarctica, in 1962. Hardback. First edition. $40
Re emergence
The marvellous booktree has shot up again. Loves warm, dry conditions with lots of sunshine, it seems.
I am not a wolf
Super popular Chinese novel about a young man who moves from Beijing to the sticks during the Cultural Revolution. $10
Everybody's favourite
Find out how the dark ages ended. Pulitzer Prize winner in 2012. $12
The skinny
Get the inside word on the extremely strange story of Rasputin, influencer with the last Russian Tsar (and especially Tsarina). Stars in a Boney M song too. $10
So many nights
Delightful leather-bound collection of fifty of the classic tales in Sir Richard Burton's famous 1888 translation. With beautiful line illustrations from an even earlier edition. $18
Not in Symmes Hole
A reknown New Zealand writer with a story of three siblings. $14.
Economic icon
A biography of Bill Phillips, noted New Zealand economist. Also creator of an amazing mechanical model of the UK economy. By a former Reserve Bank Governor. Great condition. $25
Cultural icon
Hardback words about singing. $14. Beautiful cover design.