Summer Reading Guide
Here is our Summer Reading Guide for 2023/24... a great selection of new books for your holiday downtime and Christmas gift buying.
Contact us to pre-order any titles not yet released or in stock.
Below by David Hill
22.00 NZD
Category: Junior/Middle Fiction
A nerve-wracking underground adventure from a master storyteller . . . Caught in a tunnel collapse, Liam and Imogen have to use all their wits to survive in this gripping novel for readers eight years and up. When you stood deep inside the tunnel, you could hear the mountain groaning overhead. That's ...Show more
Fresh: Family Recipes & Stories Inspired by Stephanie’s Kitchen Gardens by Stephanie Alexander
49.99 NZD
Category: Cooking
'The world of food is endlessly intriguing. After more than 60 years of cooking and sharing meals, I am still in love with it.' For the last 20 years, Stephanie Alexander, Australia's most respected and authoritative cook and food writer, has been encouraging our children to develop a deep love of good ...Show more
The Observologist: A Handbook for Mounting Very Small Scientific Expeditions by Giselle Clarkson
39.99 NZD
Category: Childrens Non Fiction
A highly illustrated and creative scientific guide to the small creatures and natural wonders we find when we take time to open our eyes to the world around us—and ode to the power of quiet observation.An observologist is someone who makes scientific expeditions, albeit very small ones, every day. They ...Show more
North Woods by Daniel Mason
37.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
When a pair of young lovers abscond from a Puritan colony, little do they know that their humble cabin in the woods will become the home of an extraordinary succession of human and inhuman characters alike. An English soldier, destined for glory, abandons the battlefields of the New World to devote him ...Show more
Before We Say Goodbye by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
24.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Before the Coffee Gets Cold | Reading Level: good-very good
Toshikazu Kawaguchi’s poignant Before we say goodbye, translated from Japanese by Geoffrey Trousselot, explores the age-old question: what would you do if you could travel back in time? More importantly, who would you want to meet, maybe for one last time? The regulars at the magical Cafe Funiculi Funic ...Show more
The 169-Storey Treehouse by Andy Griffiths, Terry Denton
17.99 NZD
Category: Junior/Middle Fiction
Andy and Terry have built their biggest and most astonishing treehouse yet! It has everything they - and you - could wish for, including an electric pony stable, a Santa Land, a NOISY level, a kangaroo-riding range, a WHATEVER-WEATHER-YOU-WANT dome, a 100% edible gingerbread house and a hall of funhouse ...Show more
Water by John Boyne
35.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
The first thing Vanessa Carvin does when she arrives on the island is change her name. To the locals, she is Willow Hale, a solitary outsider escaping Dublin to live a hermetic existence in a small cottage, not a notorious woman on the run from her past. But scandals follow like hunting dogs. And she ...Show more
The Twat Files: A hilarious sort-of memoir of mistakes, mishaps and mess-ups by Dawn French
42.00 NZD
Category: Memoirs
Discover the truth behind the many, many times Dawn French has been a complete twat over the last sixty years. Nincompoop. Nitwit. Lunatic. Dork. All lovely . . . but . . . nah . . . I prefer Twat. It's neat and it's accurate somehow. Because, yes, I am a Twat . . . sometimes. Aren't we all? THE TWAT ...Show more
Mythos: The stunningly iIllustrated story by Stephen Fry
95.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
No one loves and quarrels, desires and deceives as boldly or brilliantly as Greek gods and goddesses. In Stephen Fry's vivid retelling, we gaze in wonder as wise Athena is born from the cracking open of the great head of Zeus and follow doomed Persephone into the dark and lonely realm of the Underworld ...Show more
Sisters under the Rising Sun by Heather Morris
36.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Sisters under the Rising Sun, the captivating new novel by Heather Morris, is a story of women in war: a testament to resilience, bravery and friendship in the darkest of circumstances. It is February 1942. Amid the turmoil of World War II, a group of Australian Army nurses, among them Nesta James and ...Show more
A History of Women in 101 Objects: A walk through female history by Annabelle Hirsch
55.00 NZD
Category: World History
The way we remember the past today remains dishearteningly patriarchal: a place where women have always been oppressed by men, from ancient times to the present day. A History of Women in 101 Objects tells a new story of female history, revealing the evolution of the role women have played in society th ...Show more
Impossible Creatures by Katherine Rundell
22.99 NZD
Category: Junior/Middle Fiction
It was a very fine day, until something tried to eat him. A boy called Christopher is visiting his reclusive grandfather when he witnesses an avalanche of mythical creatures come tearing down the hill. This is how Christopher learns that his grandfather is the guardian of one of the ways between the no ...Show more