New Fiction!

Calling all Skulduggery Pleasant fans!
The Dying of the Light is the FINAL shocking, heart-wrenching book in the jaw-droppingly stupendous Skulduggery Pleasant series.
The War of the Sanctuaries has been won, but it was not without its casualties. Following the loss of Valkyrie Cain, Skulduggery Pleasant must use any and all means to track down and stop Darquesse before she turns the world into a charred, lifeless cinder.
And so he draws together a team of soldiers, monster hunters, killers, criminals… and Valkyrie’s own murderous reflection.
The war may be over, but the final battle is about to begin. And not everyone gets out of here alive…

After a mysterious Sickness wipes out the rest of the population, the young survivors assemble into tightly run tribes. Jefferson, the reluctant leader of the Washington Square tribe, and Donna, the girl he's secretly in love with, have carved out a precarious existence among the chaos.

But when another tribe member discovers a clue that may hold the cure to the Sickness, five teens set out on a life-altering road trip, exchanging gunfire with enemy gangs, excaping cults and militias, and braving the wilds of the subway—to save humankind.

The first novel from acclaimed film writer/director CHRIS WEITZ (About a Boy, The Twilight Saga: New Moon, The Golden Compass) is the heart-stopping debut of an action-packed trilogy.

New! New! Non-Fiction books to enjoy!

Appo Hocton, New Zealand's first naturalised Chinese immigrant, arrived in Nelson in 1842. As a nine-year-old he had left China to become a cabin boy on English sailing ships. In his early 20s he jumped ship in Nelson he was employed as a housekeeper but eventually saved enough money to buy a bullock team and established a carting business.

Young Country is a book of poetry by twenty-first-century writer Kerry Hines alongside images by nineteenth-century photographer William Williams. The wry, plainspoken but haunting poems sit alongside evocative photographs of settlement: landscapes, streetscapes, skyscapes; the escapades of a trio of flatmates; portraits of family and friends; burnt bush and rising buildings.

If necessity is the mother of invention then Kiwi ingenuity is its father.