 The Angel's Cut by Elizabeth Knox RRP $35.00 vicbooks price $32.00
Victoria University Press
This novel sees the welcome return of the angel Xas from Knox's 1998 novel The Vintner's Luck. The setting is Los Angeles, 1929, boom-time for movie-makers and wannabes, speakeasies, and speculators. Nursing a broken heart but still intent on living in the human realm, Xas has become a stunt flier to fulfill his need for the sky. But while director Conrad Cole - a man mired in his own depression - may drag him back down to earth, former actress Flora McLeod sees potential within him which neither God, his maker nor Lucifer, his former leader, ever suspected he possessed.Buy now |  Relief by Anna Taylor RRP $30.00
vicbooks price $27.00
Victoria University Press Comedy and menace intermingle in this first collection of short stories from the winner of the 2006 Adam Prize in Creative Writing. Buy now |
 James K. Baxter Poems
edited by Sam Hunt $29.99 HB Auckland University Press Hunt offers his memories of James K. Baxter and explains how the almost fifty poems in this personal selection made the cut. These are the poems which first made him appreciate poetry's power to subvert and the poems he still recites when performing on tour. Buy now |  The Double Rainbow: James K. Baxter Ngati Hau & the Jerusalem Community by John Newton RRP $40.00
vicbooks price $36.00
Victoria University Press James K Baxter's late works The Jerusalem Sonnets, Jerusalem Daybook and Autumn Testament - set and written at the commune he established on the Whanganui River with the agreement of the local hapu, Ngati Hau - brought fame to the community, but also attracted negative attention as a magnet for anti-establishment youth and "dirty hippies". This book explodes the myths and disinformation surrounding the group by reconstructing the story from the point of view of Baxter's followers and their local supporters. Buy now |
 Beside the Dark Pool by Fiona Kidman $37.99 Vintage In the first volume of her memoirs, At The End of Darwin Road, Kidman told us about her childhood and early life, up to the publication of her first, very successful novel. Beside The Dark Pool continues the story, chronicling the writing of twenty subsequent books and her dealings with fellow writers and her involvement in and commitment to New Zealand's literary scene. Buy now |  All This & A Bookshop Too by Dorothy Butler $40.00 Penguin Books Dorothy Butler is an internationally respected advocate for children's books and reading. This personal story of her adult life is also a tribute to the golden age of children's book publishing in New Zealand, in which she played various roles - teacher, author, bookseller and critic. Buy now |
 The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
by Mary Ann Shaffer $27.99 Allen & Unwin This beguilingly simple romance set in the Channel Islands during World War II is also a compelling social history. It's the kind of book whose host of individual characters will stay with you and which you'll want to lend to your friends - who'll then wish they'd bought their own copy. Buy now  The Angel's Game by
Carlos Ruiz Zafón $38.00 Text
When his employer suddenly has to find something to replace six pages of the weekend edition he cannot print, David - a journalist who longs to be a novelist - suggests a short story. His instant and unexpected success draws the attention of both Corelli, a French editor, and Sempere, a bookseller who holds the keys to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books. A prequel to The Shadow of the Wind, this is a mysterious literary love story set amongst the perilous alleyways and collapsing architecture of 1920s Barcelona. Buy now  The Owl Killers by Karen Maitland $37.00 Michael Joseph
When a group of religious women set up a community on the borders of an isolated village ruled by the puritanical and terrifying Owl Masters, they come under suspicion of heresy. The women's crops and cattle survive disasters which plague those of the villagers, and when a young woman who seeks sanctuary with them dies, it is all the Owl Masters need in order to declare outright war against their "foul witchcraft". Buy now |  The House of Special Purpose by John Boyne $37.99 Doubleday
Georgy Jachmenev's life was changed forever when he stepped into the path of a would-be assassin's bullet at the age of sixteen. The grateful Russian Imperial Family proclaim him a hero and he is summoned to St Petersburg to become bodyguard to Alexei Romanov, Tsar Nicholas II's only son. Sixty-five years later, as he visits his dying wife, he looks back at the dramatic events, both public and private, he has witnessed over the course of his life. Buy now
 Sunnyside by Glen David Gold $38.99 Sceptre
There is so much packed into this novel it is difficult to summarise. Essentially it is a fictional retelling of the life and passions of Charlie Chaplin, and by extension, of silent movies, slapstick and satire, American culture, fame, war, rivalry, ambition, depression and inspiration. Take time off to curl up with this novel and something warm and delicious. By the author of Carter Beats the Devil (also highly recommended). Buy now |
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