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OUR PICK THE WORLD TIDELANDS THAT WE KNEW Philippa Gregory THE ABSOLUTE BOOK Alice Hoffman Paperback Elizabeth Knox Paperback RRP $37.99 RRP $37.99 Paperback RRP $35.00 Midsummer’s Eve, 1648, In Berlin in 1941 during is a dangerous time for Taryn Cornick believes that the past is behind humanity’s darkest hour, a woman to be different. her – her sister’s death by violence, and her own three unforgettable England is in the grip ill-conceived revenge. She has chosen to live a young women must act of civil war between life more professional than personal. She has with courage and love to renegade King and written a book about the things that threaten survive, from the New York rebellious Parliament. libraries – insects, damp, light, fire, carelessness Times bestselling author of The Dovekeepers The struggle reaches every corner of the and uncaring. The book is a success, but not all and The Marriage of Opposites, Alice Hoffman. kingdom, even to the remote Tidelands – the marshy landscape of the south coast. of the attention it brings her is good.

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THE GIRL WHO LOST IN THE SPANISH LIVED TWICE QUARTER OUR PICK David Lagercrantz Heddi Goodrich THE BURNING RIVER Paperback Paperback Lawrence Patchett RRP $37.99 RRP $32.99 RRP $30.00 The sixth in the Millennium Told with the intimacy Paperback series featuring The Girl and ferocity of Elena In a radically changed Aotearoa New Zealand, with the Dragon Tattoo Ferrante’s Neapolitan Van’s life in the swamp is hazardous. Sheltered - more than 100 million Novels and set in the by Rau and Matewai, he mines plastic and trades copies sold worldwide. passionate, intense, and to survive. When a young visitor summons him A thrilling ride that scales crumbling neighborhood to the fenced settlement on the hill, he is offered the heights of Everest and plunges the depths known as the Spanish Quarter of Naples, comes a new and frightening responsibility—a perilous of Russia's criminal underworld. In a climax of a tale of two students searching for love and shattering violence, Lisbeth Salander will face belonging in the city they so desperately want inland journey that leads to a tense confrontation her nemesis. to call home. and the prospect of a rebuilt world.

SWORD OF KINGS THE GERMAN HOUSE THE LAST TRAIN TO LONDON Bernard Cornwell Annette Hess Meg Waite Clayton Paperback RRP $35.00 Paperback RRP $35.00 Paperback RRP $35.00 The Last Kingdom series goes Set against the Frankfurt This pre-World War II-era story from strength to strength with Auschwitz Trials of 1963, Annette has the emotional resonance Uhtred becoming ever more Hess’s international bestseller is a of Orphan Train and All the Light interesting – in so many ways a harrowing yet ultimately uplifting We Cannot See, centering on modern hero, facing a new world, coming-of-age story about a the Kindertransports that carried with changing allegiances, but young female translator—caught thousands of children out of Nazi- still held by traditional loyalties. between societal and familial occupied Europe—and one brave Bernard Cornwell's latest in his expectations and her unique ability woman who helped them escape to bestselling series on the making of to speak truth to power—as she safety. A moving novel based on a England and the fate of his great fights to expose the dark truths of true story. hero, Uhtred of Bebbanburg. her nation’s past.

THE INSTITUTE THE COLLABORATOR THE TESTAMENTS Stephen King Diane Armstrong Margaret Atwood Paperback RRP $37.99 Paperback RRP $32.99 Hardback RRP $48.00 Deep in the woods of Maine, Is he a hero or a traitor? When the van door slammed on there is a state facility where Based on astonishing true events Offred’s future at the end of kids, abducted from across set in the darkest days of World The Handmaid’s Tale, nobody knew the country, are incarcerated War II in Budapest, this novel is what lay ahead– freedom, prison and their exceptional gifts - an enthralling story of heroism, or death. The Testaments picks telepathy, telekinesis – tested for vengeance, passion, and betrayal. up the story 15 years after Offred concentrated effect. Combining It is also the story of three women stepped into the unknown, with the suspense of The Outsider with linked by a secret that threatens the explosive testaments of three the childhood camaraderie in It, to destroy their lives. For readers female narrators from Gilead. The Institute is a powerful new of The Tattooist of Auschwitz, novel from Stephen King. All That I Am and Schindler's Ark.

SHAKESPEARE SH*T TOWNS OF FOR EVERY DAY NEW ZEALAND OF THE YEAR BOOK 2 Allie Esiri Rick Furphy Hardback & Geoff Rissole RRP $44.99 Paperback This beautiful gift RRP $24.99 anthology is perfect Based on the hugely Great gift ideas for reading or sharing popular Facebook and brings you page 'Shit Towns of New Zealand' this is a Shakespeare’s best- detailed catalogue of shit towns and cities known and best-loved across Aotearoa. Naturally, the first volume was classics alongside less well-worn extracts. With received as a literary masterpiece, taking home for Christmas Allie Esiri’s entertaining and insightful thoughts the prestigious Poolitzer Prize, the Poobody on each entry, this book will fill your year with Award and the Nobel Prize for Shiterature. wonder, laughter, wisdom and wit. OUR PICK PEOPLE OF BOWIE'S BOOKS HOW TO WALK A DOG NEW ZEALAND John O'Connell Mike White & Sam Moore Hardback Sharon Murdoch (Illus) Paperback RRP $37.99 Hardback RRP $35.00 RRP $24.99 Three years before Mike White, for decades one of the country's Who are the People he died, David Bowie most persuasive journalists, makes a case of New Zealand in made a list of the one the 21st Century? hundred books that had here as irrefutable as it is moving: throw a This diverse bunch of transformed his life - a list stick, make a dog happy, be a better person.' characters is easily that formed something Vincent O'Sullivan recognisable and akin to an autobiography. hilariously familiar. The humour in these images From Madame Bovary gently and affectionately pokes fun at Kiwi to A Clockwork Orange, the Iliad to the Beano, culture, providing many snorts of recognition. these were the publications that had fuelled his creativity and shaped who he was.

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NATIVE SON THE BRILLIANCE OUR PICK FIRST MAP Witi Ihimaera OF BIRDS & David Elliot (Illus) Paperback Skye Wishart & Eden Whitehead Hardback RRP $49.99 RRP $40.00 Hardback First Map tells the human story behind the creation This sequel to his award- RRP $55.00 of Cook's famous chart, following the progress of winning memoir picks up his six-month circumnavigation of New Zealand where Maori Boy stopped, Who knew that the and piecing the map together as the narrative on following Witi through morepork, can turn its his triumphs and failures head 270 degrees? Or that H.M.B. Endeavour unfolds. It is a story of courage, at school and university, the eastern bar-tailed godwit doubles its body dogged perseverance and Cook's extraordinary to experimenting weight before undertaking an epic and continuous skills as both cartographer and seafarer. Scenes sexually, searching for love and purpose and to migration of 11,000 kilometres? Or that the tui has from Tessa Duder's evocative text are beautifully becoming our first Maori novelist. It continues in a specially placed voicebox, enabling it to duet recreated by award-winning illustrator David Elliot the same vein as the first volume - rich, powerful with itself? Zany, off-kilter, wondrous and wild, in this exquisite large format edition. and multi-layered. giving you a behind-the-scenes glimpse into the lives of some of New Zealand’s feathered friends.

MĀORI AT SINGING THE MEANING A SHARP LEFT THE GREAT WORK THE TRAIL OF TREES TURN UNKNOWN Scotty Morrison John Robert Vennell Mike Chunn Geoff Paperback McCrystal Hardback Hardback Spearpoint RRP $35.00 Hardback RRP $55.00 RRP $45.00 Hardback Māori at RRP $59.99 RRP $59.99 Work offers The Meaning of A roller-coaster phrases and tips yarn about being A unique collection of trips from five Beautifully illustrated with a selection Trees tells the for greetings and in the ground- decades of tramping and mountaineering of fascinating maps, Singing the history and use of New Zealands welcoming people, breaking band adventures in the Southern Alps by Trail is the story of New Zealand native plants. Beautifully Illustrated emails and letters, speeches and social Split Enz, but also the powerful story legendary Geoff Spearpoint, with through its maps and the explorers of with botanical drawings, paintings media, with specific chapters on the of how Mike Chunn dealt with a stunning photography and maps many kinds who made those maps in and photographs, it shows us how office, construction and roadworks, crippling mental health issue and throughout. all their variety. our unique flora has been used for retail, hospitality, broadcasting and food, medicine, shelter, spirituality went on to become one of our most teaching. This is the perfect book to and science. influential music identities. start or expand your te reo journey - no matter your skill level! OUR PICK SOUTHERN NIGHTS PĀKEHĀ SETTLEMENTS Naomi Arnold IN A MĀORI WORLD: NEW ZEALAND FIFTEEN MILLION YEARS IN ANTARCTICA Hardback ARCHAEOLOGY Rebecca Priestley RRP $65.00 1769–1860 Paperback RRP $40.00 Meet the night sky, Ian Smith Rebecca Priestley longs to be in Antarctica. But it is down under. It was Paperback celestial navigation that also the last place on Earth she wants to go. In 2011 brought the first people RRP $59.99 Priestley visits the wide white continent for the first here, and it was tatai Glimpses of a country time, on a trip that coincides with the centenary arorangi, Maori astronomy, that helped people in the midst of turbulent change abound in this of Robert Falcon Scott’s fateful trek to the South survive once they arrived. Covering eclipses, richly illustrated introduction to the archaeology Pole. For Priestley, 2011 is the fulfilment of a dream aurorae, comets and constellations, backyard of Pākehā settlement. From the habitations of that took root in a childhood full of books, art and observatories, traditional stargazers and world- ‘sojourning settlers’ to the towns of the mid- science and grew stronger during her time as a class astrophotographers, this is the unique nineteenth century, archaeologist Ian Smith tells geology student in the 1980s. story of Te Whanau Marama, our family of light the story of the first European encounters with - the night sky that glows above us all. these South Pacific islands.

CRAFTING AOTEAROA: TOWARDS THE COLIN MCCAHON: THE HOME FRONT: A CULTURAL HISTORY MOUNTAIN THERE IS ONLY ONE THE IMPACT OF OF MAKING IN Sarah Myles DIRECTION. THE GREAT WAR NEW ZEALAND AND THE VOLUME I. 1919–1959 ON EVERYDAY Paperback WIDER MOANA OCEANIA Peter Simpson NEW ZEALANDERS RRP $39.99 1914–1918 Karl Chitham, Hardback Kolokesa Māhina-Tuai On 28 November 1979 an Steven Loveridge & Damian Skinner Air New Zealand plane RRP $75.00 & James Watson Hardback crashed into the lower Ranging through Hardback slopes of Mount Erebus landscapes, biblical RRP $85.00 in broad daylight while paintings and abstraction, abstract text and RRP $59.99 Crafting Aotearoa tells the story of craft in on a sight-seeing trip to Māori motifs – this is an extraordinary, heavily While New Zealand soldiers dug into their Aotearoa New Zealand and wider Moana Antarctica, killing all 257 souls on board. This illustrated two-volume work chronicling forty- trenches, back home major issues divided the Oceania, bringing the many interactions and was New Zealand's greatest peacetime tragedy. five years of painting by our most important nation, including conscription; the treatment intersections between Māori, Pākehā and Marking the 40th anniversary of the Erebus artist, Colin McCahon. These books (Vol. 2 of conscientious objectors, Germans and Moana Oceania makers into view. Making has disaster, this is the first book on that tragedy publishing May 2020) will be the definitive work other ‘enemy aliens’; and censorship. Then, been crucial in building the multicultural nation written by one of the affected families. on New Zealand’s leading artist for many years in the Great War’s last months, the influenza of Aotearoa. Craft is at the heart of this story. to come. pandemic struck. This fresh history examines a new and uncertain Dominion at war.

WE ARE HERE: WILD HONEY: GOING BY TRAIN AN ATLAS OF READING NEW OUR PICK AOTEAROA ZEALAND WOMEN'S Grahams Hutchins Chris McDowall POETRY Hardback RRP $59.99 & Tim Denee Paula Green Railways played a pivotal part in the Hardback Flexibind development of New Zealand’s economy, RRP $70.00 RRP $45.00 towns and cities, and helped shape a This mix of graphs, maps Highly regarded poet distinctive culture. Going By Train is a and illustrations is both and anthologist Paula comprehensive account of our railways’ story, beautiful and enlightening. It tells us where Green’s comprehensive from the earliest days of the colony, through we are, here, in 2019. Each stunning graphic survey of New Zealand’s women poets, from rail’s growth and golden days, slow decline answers a question: Who visits us? How many Jessie Mackay, the first woman poet published and recent resurgence. fish are in the sea? Where do our cats go to at in this country, through to Tayi Tibble and Hera night? Essays by some of New Zealand’s best Lindsay Bird. A work of creative scholarship, it is thinkers complete the package. enormously generous and makes an important contribution to New Zealand literature.

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ON FIRE: JANIS OUR PICK THE BURNING CASE FOR Holly George-Warren A GREEN NEW DEAL THE BODY: Paperback Naomi Klein A GUIDE FOR OCCUPANTS RRP $37.99 Paperback Bill Bryson The first biography RRP $35.00 Hardback RRP $55.00 of Janis Joplin to Naomi shows us how establish her as the rule- Full of extraordinary facts and astonishing the only way forward breaking trailblazer and stories The Body is a brilliant, often very out of a polluted world complicated, gender- funny attempt to understand the miracle of our own making is bending rebel she was – of our physical and neurological make up. through policy reform - a based on unprecedented This wonderful new book will have you concrete set of actions to combat the threat of access to her family, friends, forgotten archives, marvelling at the form you occupy, and total environmental catastrophe. In her most and long-lost interviews. celebrating the genius of your existence. galvanising book yet, Naomi Klein makes the case for a radical New Deal.

CONFESSIONS LADY IN WAITING OUR PICK OF A BOOKSELLER Anne Glenconner HOW TO BE A DICTATOR Shaun Bythell Paperback Frank Dikötter Hardback RRP $34.99 Paperback RRP RRP $32.99 A vivid, revealing and $32.99 The Diary of a Bookseller unique witness to royal Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin, Mao Zedong, Kim Il-sung, (soon to be a major TV history, and landmark Ceausescu, Mengistu of Ethiopia and Duvalier series) introduced us to royal moments including of Haiti. In How to Be a Dictator, Frank Dikötter the joys and frustrations the Abdication of Edward returns to eight of the most chillingly effective of life lived in books. VIII and the Coronation personality cults of the twentieth century. At a Sardonic and sympathetic of Queen Elizabeth II. time when democracy is in retreat, are we seeing in equal measure, Confessions of a Bookseller Lady Glenconner was also Princess Margaret's a revival of the same techniques among some of will reunite readers with the characters they've Lady in Waiting, spending much of her life with today's world leaders? come to know and love. her on Mustique and accompanying her around the world.

OUR PICK SOMEWHERE FINDING CHIKA BECOMING RAIN Mitch Albom Clive James Hardback YEAR OF THE MONKEY Hardback RRP $39.99 Patti Smith RRP $27.99 International number one Paperback RRP $32.99 Through this joyous and bestseller Mitch Albom's From the National Book Award-winning perceptive book, Larkin’s first work of non-fiction , a profound, genius is delineated and author of Just Kids and M Train in ten years - his most celebrated. James argues personal story to date. beautifully realised memoir in which dreams that Larkin’s poems, and reality are vividly woven into a tapestry adored by discriminating of one transformative year. readers for over half a century, could only have been the product of his reticent, diffident, flawed, and all-too-human personality.

JAMES COOK: IAN MCKELLEN: TALL TALES THE STORY BEHIND THE MAN THE BIOGRAPHY AND WEE STORIES WHO MAPPED THE WORLD Garry O'Connor Billy Connolly Peter FitzSimons Paperback Paperback Paperback RRP $37.99 RRP $37.99 RRP $37.99 Few actors achieve in their lifetime Tall Tales and Wee Stories brings The name Captain James Cook what Sir Ian McKellen has. together the very best of Billy's is one of the most recognisable A repertoire of vast commercial storytelling for the first time and in Antipodean history - an success coupled with critically includes his most famous routines almost mythic figure who is both acclaimed and authoritative including, The Last Supper, Jojoba celebrated and reviled. FitzSimons' Shakespearian roles. Many of Shampoo and Shouting at James Cook tells the story of the us know of McKellen for his Wildebeest. With original expedition, on the Endeavour, depiction of Gandalf in Lord of illustrations by Billy throughout, it is an inspirational, energetic which took place from 1768 to 1771 including his rediscovery the Rings. O'Connor's definitive biography reveals the man and riotously funny read, and a fitting celebration of our of NZ and the charting of its coastline. behind McKellen the actor. Some of the revelations may be greatest ever comedian. controversial to McKellen's fans, even explosive.

THE WRITING ON THE WALL CHASTISE: LOVE Juliet Rieden THE DAMBUSTERS STORY 1943 Paperback Max Hasting YOUR LOCAL RRP $37.99 Paperback In 1939, as Hitler's troops march RRP $39.99 on Prague, a Jewish couple makes From the master of military history If you can’t find the a heartbreaking decision that will comes a dramatic retake on a save their eight-year-old son's life familiar story. Hastings sets the book you want just ask but change their family forever. Dambuster Raid in the big picture Meticulously researched and of the bomber offensive and of the – your local bookshop beautifully told, this is the moving Second World War, with moving story of a woman's quest to piece portraits of the young airmen, will find it for you! together the hidden parts of her so many of whom died, together father's life and the unimaginable losses he was determined with a superb narrative of the action of one of the most to protect his children from. extraordinary episodes in British war history.

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PRINCE OF PONIES THE DINKY DONKEY Stacey Gregg Craig Smith Hardback & Katz Cowley (Illus) RRP $25.00 Hardback OUR PICK War destroyed their RRP $19.99 worlds, now two Wonky Donkey has a young girls and their daughter with the same David Walliams remarkable horses are rambunctious spirit From No. 1 bestselling children’s author, fighting once more – as her dad. Kids, parents and their loved ones David Walliams comes his new exciting this time to win. From will enjoy the hilarity and cumulative read- epic adventure to delight children across best selling local writer aloud fun. This adorable pint-sized donkey has the country. Guaranteed to be a lively Stacey Gregg, Prince of Ponies is a story of beautiful long eyelashes, loves to listen to rowdy courage and the will to win against all odds. music and has a very cool spiky haircut! Wonky fantastically funny gift for Christmas. and Dinky become the perfect duo to get even more young children reading..

THE LITTLE YELLOW DINOSAUR HUNTER DIARY OF A WIMPY KID LITTLE HECTOR DIGGER ABC - TE REO EDITION AND THE BIG IDEA Peter Gilderdale Hardback Jeff Kinney Ruth Paul & Betty Gilderdale RRP $25.00 Paperback Paperback Paperback + CD A little girl with a RRP $17.99 RRP $18.99 RRP $19.99 fascination for shells, Jeff Kinney's Wimpy In his second adventure, Children will delight in fossils and treasure Kid translated in te reo Little Hector takes on a discovering the calligraphy-style alphabet letters hunting, grows up Maori! A great book in huge challenge - fishing hidden beneath the flaps in this handsome, all- to prove scientists wrong by discovering real any language, Te Rataka nets and plastic rubbish are endangering his new rhyming story. Peter Gilderdale has worked dinosaur fossils in our very own backyard! a Tama Hungoingoi is beautiful bay. The situation seems impossible with his mother's series of stories and his father's This is the remarkable true story of packed with laughter, but Little Hector has a big idea and together, familiar art, from the much-loved original Little palaeontologist and science superstar Joan gags, disasters, daydreams and plenty to keep he and his friends clean up the ocean. A fun Yellow Digger range to produce this attractive Wiffen, perfect for inspiring young readers to young readers hooked until the very end. story with a fantastic environmental spin. addition to the collection. explore their dreams.

OUR PICK A CHILD OF BOOKS DIARY OF A WIMPY KID Sam Winston #14 & Oliver Jeffers (Illus) Jeff Kinney THE HOUSE OF MADAME M Paperback Paperback Clotilde Perrin RRP $18.99 RRP $17.99 Hardback RRP $37.99 In this inspiring tale An unexpected inheritance A large-format lift-the-flap visit to the haunted about the rewards of gives the Heffley family house of the mysterious Madame M—enjoy the reading and sharing a chance to make major thrill of uncovering what lurks in the wardrobe, stories, a girl and boy journey "across a sea of improvements to their behind the door, tucked under the furniture…. words", through forests of fairy tales and across home. But they soon find From Clotilde Perrin, the brilliant creator of mountains of make-believe on an adventure that construction isn’t all Inside the Villains that unlocks the boy’s imagination to a lifetime it’s cracked up to be. When things get rough, . of magic. will the Heffleys be able to stay ... or will they be forced to move?

CORNELIA AND CLEO & ROB ENCYCLOPEDIA THREE KIWI TALES: THE JUNGLE MACHINE Helen Brown & OF GRANNIES MORE FABULOUS Nora Brech Phoebe Morris (Illus) Eric Veillé FIX-IT TALES FROM WILDBASE HOSPITAL Hardback Paperback Hardback Janet Hunt RRP $29.99 RRP $22.99 RRP $29.99 Paperback What if you had to move A sweet little kitten An offbeat, anarchic house? What if you made called Cleo becomes book full of word play RRP $24.99 a new friend? What if he a good friend to six and humour, answering Following on from the had a jungle machine? year old Rob after his all your questions about award-winning How to Go on an adventure in big brother, Sam, dies. With Cleo's help, Rob grandmas—especially the Mend a Kea, Janet Hunt this amazing picture book that takes the young discovers that, even in the toughest times, ones you never thought presents more fabulous stories from Massey’s reader into a fairytale world, inspires their healing can happen. This heartwarming story to ask. Wildbase Hospital. Children, their whānau imaginations and a belief in magical worlds. first appeared as a world-wide bestselling book and teachers will love following three kiwi — for adults, Cleo. Rarotoka, Piwi and Latitude — as the expert vets and nurses heal them and get them ready to go back out into the wild.

OUR PICK #TUMEKE THE NIGHT Michael Petherick BEFORE THE HOIHOI TURITURI NIGHT BEFORE Paperback CHRISTMAS Soledad Bravi RRP $30.00 Kes Gray Board Book RRP $24.99 There’s going to be a Hardback Waitangi Day party in With over 100 pages, Hoihoi Turituri RRP $19.99 (aka the local park of a busy The Noisy Book) is full of bright, inner-city neighbourhood A brilliantly funny bold illustrations and lots of noises to and you wouldn’t believe Christmas story make—it’s perfect for sharing te reo all the amazing goings-on. Stuffed with stories, from the bestselling author of Oi Frog. Now Māori with a baby or toddler. big personalities, surprising friendships and in a mini hardback, this will make the perfect intrigue, this multi-media narrative is a book Christmas gift or stocking filler! for our times. www.booksellers.co.nz

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MY FIRST WORDS IN MĀORI THE 117-STOREY TREEHOUSE WILDLIFE OF Stacey Morrison & Ali Teo Andy Griffiths & AOTEAROA & John O'Reilly (Illus) Terry Denton (Illus) Gavin Bishop Paperback RRP $19.99 Paperback RRP $17.99 Hardback RRP $40.00 With lively pictures labelled in Maori The amazing treehouse now has Long before waka touched Aotearoa’s and English, each page introduces 13 new storeys, including a tiny- shores, the land of the long white cloud the concepts and words children horse level, pyjama-party room, was home to an array of creatures use as they first begin to talk, get to Underpants Museum, photo- uniquely adapted to its environments know people and explore the world bombing booth, Door of Doom, and protected by its isolation. around them. This is the perfect giant-fighting-robot arena, water-ski In this magnificent book, Gavin Bishop book to bring the Maori language park filled with flesh-eating piranhas weaves a compelling visual narrative of into your home and have fun with and a treehouse visitor centre our land, our people and our wildlife — the kids. with a 24-hour information desk, a past, present and future. penguin-powered flying treehouse tour bus and a gift shop.

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DEEPLIGHT THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS HIDDEN WONDERS Frances Hardinge Kenneth Grahame Lonely Planet Kids Paperback RRP $24.99 & Graham Baker Smith (Illus) Hardback RRP $29.99 In an alternative world, fifty years Hardback RRP $32.99 A compendium for the curious. after the death of the gods, street The riverside adventures of Mole, Hidden Wonders showcases over urchins Hark and Jelt scavenge off Ratty, Badger and Mr. Toad have 200 of the planet's weirdest and the Island of Lady's Crave: diving become a timeless children's classic. most wonderful places, organised for relics of the gods, desperate for In this beautiful volume, we see their by lines of longitude. Be the first to anything they can sell. But there is world through the eyes of renowned uncover the world's secrets wonders. something dangerous in the deep artist, Grahame Baker Smith. waters of the undersea that will test Exquisitely illustrated, this beloved Hark beyond imagination. story is brought to life for a whole new generation of readers.

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