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Three Wee Bookshops at the End of the World
Following the international bestselling success of The Bookseller at the End of the World, Ruth Shaw continues her remarkable story in this charming sequel. Having found love with Lance, Ruth shares their sailing adventures, world travels, conservation efforts, and the joy of running their beloved bookshops together. Written in Ruth's characteristic style, this absorbing memoir weaves together extraordinary people, laugh-out-loud funny situations, and tales from the bookshops, all interwoven with expert book recommendations. Despite life's challenges, Ruth's story traverses the highs and lows of a life lived to the full, creating another deeply satisfying and heartwarming read.
Hooked
Whether you want to fish for sprats from a wharf, walk up a stream with a fly rod or cast a line from a boat or kayak, there''s a heap of handy information in here. Learn how to tie knots, bait hooks, cast lures, and fillet and cook your catch.Al Brown has a life-long love of fishing and Hooked includes ten of Al''s most-loved fish recipes, some of them Depot classics. Fishing is a terrific outdoors experience that is challenging but also super exciting. And the learning never ends as your knowledge builds with each adventure and every time you head out. Hooked is a go-to for all anglers!
End Your Fight with Food
End the exhausting cycle of dieting, failing, and self-blame. In this transformative guide, nutritionist Claire Turnbull reveals why willpower isn't enough and how psychology drives our eating patterns. Moving beyond restrictive diets and scale obsession, she presents a holistic approach to genuine wellbeing through six key pillars: nourishment, sleep, movement, relationships, stress management, and purpose. Packed with practical strategies and compassionate insights, this isn't just another eating guide - it's your roadmap to breaking free from food struggles, changing habits permanently, and finally making peace with your body. Discover how to align your eating with health goals while truly loving the life you're living.
The Secret Green
''A delightfully kid-forward story, where the adults play supporting roles . . . with some genuinely tense and emotional moments.'' Kete Books It''s almost a year since Nissa Marshall was found alive after miraculously surviving a month lost in the vast, dense, isolated bush of Fiordland. Strange, magical things happened when Nissa was lost in the wilds but was it actually real? Or had she made it all up in the forest inside her head?When the mysterious forest creatures come for Nissa again, she discovers that Fiordland is under threat. What are the sparks so afraid of? What is the secret they''re so desperate to protect? And why do they think a thirteen-year-old kid can save them all? This thrilling sequel to Spark Hunter crackles with the magic of the ancient forest. It''s a high-stakes adventure through a vast wonderland with a great green secret hidden from humans for thousands of years.
It's a Bit More Complicated Than That
WINNER: Best Unpublished Author manuscript in the Storylines Tessa Duder YA Prize 2024 ''A brilliant new YA novel from a huge new talent.'' The Spinoff ''An emotionally charged and beautifully written debut novel.'' NZ BookloverBut now Zelle is back, and their lives are about to get a whole lot more complicated.Zelle is in denial about her alcohol use that threatens to spiral out of control, and she''s deeply annoyed at having to leave the city. Callum''s future is thrown into jeopardy after both a disastrous uni interview and his budding romance turning sour. But they can''t keep running from the past forever, and circumstances force them to examine their grief and guilt and find a way through. With beautifully assured story-telling, this is an emotionally tense page turner that leaves you on the edge of your seat.
A Life Less Punishing
A Life Less Punishing is Matt''s distilled wisdom on how to live a good life, where he takes several common emotions and unpacks why we feel this way and how we can change it, interspersed with personal anecdotes, plus research taken from philosophy, psychology, and interviews with experts.Each chapter takes a different emotion/reaction/concern - anger, dissatisfaction, fear, loneliness, feeling offended, stress, humiliation, greed, annoyance, boredom, worry, grief, aimlessness - and Matt unpacks why we suffer from them and how to reframe our reactions and turn them on their heads, all in aid of living a happier life. Written with Matt''s trademark humour and hard-won insight, this is the perfect book for anyone who wonders if there is more to the life they are currently leading.
Take Two
''Take Two is that rare and special thing, a novel that is effortless to read - I sped through it in a day... She is New Zealand''s very own version of Marian Keyes.'' Nicky Pellegrino''My favourite funny author. I love her work. Take Two is totally on form'' Catherine Robertson, RNZSometimes you have to revisit your past to find your future.Laura and Doug were together for ages. Their breakup was just one of those things - she wanted children, he didn''t, no hard feelings - at least not until, with their relationship barely cold in its grave, he got his new girlfriend pregnant.Now, seven years later, a polite social call to his parents lands Laura back in the family, helping Doug and his playboy younger brother to cope with a whole raft of crises. And what better time to re-evaluate your major life decisions than when you''re wrangling a farm, a bookshop, two small children, your ex''s wife in labour and his two sick parents?This is Danielle Hawkins'' best novel yet. Funny, tender and not afraid to tackle the big issues, it will have you laughing and shedding tears in equal measure.''Hawkins is reliably kind, drily funny, and observant ... like Jane Austen in Red Band gumboots.'' The New Zealand Herald.''Take Two is light and sweet, but never cloying or sickly. Like getting the tea from your school bestie after you''ve been out of touch for a few years, accompanied by a slice of your favourite cake.'' Kete Books
The Call
Winner of the Allen & Unwin Fiction Prize 2023A brilliant debut crime novel centred on a 501 deportee gang, set in a remote coastal New Zealand town.After surviving a brutal attack, Auckland cop DS Honey Chalmers has returned to her hometown to care for her mother. The remote coastal settlement of Waitut? holds complicated memories for Honey, not least the tragic suicide of her younger sister, Scarlett.Honey is hardest on herself. She let herself get too close to a gang informant. She got sloppy. The Reapers are a 501 gang of Aussie imports, ruthless and organised, and she''s pretty sure the informant, mother-of-three Kloe Kovich, paid the price. But when a couple of gang enforcers turn up in Waitut?, Honey realises they are hoping she will lead them to Kloe. But if Kloe is still alive, can Honey save her this time aroun? hen Honey catches up with her oldest friend, Marshall, her feelings are complicated. As teenagers they were inseparable, but Marshall was the last person to see Scarlett alive, and there are rumours they were sleeping together, that he broke her heart. Honey fears Marshall is not who she wants him to be. Eventually she learns the awful truth about the events that led her sister to take her own life.When Kloe arrives in town, Honey and Marshall must work together to try and keep the hapless Kloe out of the hands of those who want her - and Honey - silenced.Gripping and suspenseful, with a killer ending, The Call propels the reader into the world of a terrifying new kind of gang - and introduces a major new talent in crime writing.
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