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Dunedin's most loved independent book shop, full of beautiful books, elegant gifts, stationery and NZ Post postal services, find us at 378 Great King Street, our home since 1962.

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Orientation Extended Hours - On Campus

Saturday 15th - Sunday 16th: 10.00am - 3.00pm

Monday 17th - Friday 21st: 9.00am - 5.00pm

Saturday 22nd - Sunday 23rd: 10.00am - 3.00pm

Monday 24th - Friday 28th: 9.00am - 5.00pm

Our Very Own Bestseller List - Weekly Top 10

Books of Mana: 180 Maori-Authored Books of Significance
Ruru, Jacinta

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$NZ 64.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 64.99

Becoming Tangata Tiriti: Working with Maori, Honouring the Treaty *Staff Pick 2024*
Bell, Avril

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$NZ 29.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 29.99

Understanding Te Tiriti: A Handbook of Basic Facts About Te Tiriti o Waitangi
Smail, Roimata

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$NZ 24.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 24.99

The Let Them Theory
Robbins, Mel

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$NZ 32.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 32.99

Hine Toa *Staff Pick 2024* *Ockham 2025 Long List*
te Awekotuku, Ngahuia

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$NZ 39.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 39.99

Relish: Chutneys, relishes, preserves, sauces & dips from around the world
Bishop, Rowan

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$NZ 44.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 44.99

At The Grand Glacier Hotel *Staff Pick 2024* *Ockham 2025 Long List*
Fearnley, Laurence

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$NZ 37.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 37.99

Unruly
Mitchell, David

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$NZ 29.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 29.99

Aroha: Maori wisdom for a contented life lived in harmony with our planet
Elder, Hinemoa

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$NZ 29.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 29.99

Pretty Ugly *Ockham 2025 Long List*
Gunn, Kirsty

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$NZ 34.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 34.99

Summer Reading

Kataraina *Ockham 2025 Long List*
Manawatu, Becky

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$NZ 37.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 37.99

Kawai: Tree of Nourishment *Staff Pick 2024*
Soutar, Monty

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$NZ 39.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 39.99

The Mires *Staff Pick 2024* *Ockham 2025 Long List*
Makereti, Tina

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$NZ 39.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 39.99

All That We Know *Ockham 2025 Long List*
Kino, Shilo

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$NZ 37.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 37.99

There are Rivers in the Sky
Shafak, Elif

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$NZ 37.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 37.99

Here One Moment *Staff Pick 2024*
Moriarty, Liane

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$NZ 37.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 37.99

Tell Me Everything *Oprah's Bookclub Pick* *Staff Pick 2024*
Strout, Elizabeth

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$NZ 37.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 37.99

We Solve Murders
Osman, Richard

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$NZ 37.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 37.99

In Too Deep: (Jack Reacher 29)
Child, Lee

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$NZ 37.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 37.99

Intermezzo *Staff Pick 2024*
Rooney, Sally

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$NZ 37.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 37.99

Ockham Longlist 2025

All That We Know *Ockham 2025 Long List*
Kino, Shilo

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$NZ 37.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 37.99

Amma *Staff Pick 2024* *Ockham 2025 Long List*
de Silva, Saraid

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$NZ 37.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 37.99

Ash *Book of the Month May 2024* *Staff Pick 2024* *Ockham 2025 Long List*
Wallace, Louise

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$NZ 29.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 29.99

At The Grand Glacier Hotel *Staff Pick 2024* *Ockham 2025 Long List*
Fearnley, Laurence

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$NZ 37.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 37.99

Delirious *Ockham 2025 Long List*
Wilkins, Damien

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$NZ 37.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 37.99

Kataraina *Ockham 2025 Long List*
Manawatu, Becky

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$NZ 37.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 37.99

Poorhara *Ockham 2025 Long List*
Rahurahu, Michelle

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$NZ 37.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 37.99

Pretty Ugly *Ockham 2025 Long List*
Gunn, Kirsty

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$NZ 34.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 34.99

The Royal Free *Ockham 2025 Long List*
Shuker, Carl

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$NZ 37.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 37.99

The Mires *Staff Pick 2024* *Ockham 2025 Long List*
Makereti, Tina

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$NZ 39.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 39.99

Hopurangi | Song Catcher: Poems from the Maramataka *Ockham 2025 Long List*
Sullivan, Robert

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$NZ 29.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 29.99

Hibiscus Tart *Ockham 2025 Long List*
Smeaton, Carin

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$NZ 27.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 27.99

In the Half Light of a Dying Day *Ockham 2025 Long List*
Stead, C. K.

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$NZ 24.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 24.99

Liar, Liar, Lick, Spit *Ockham 2025 Long List*
Neale, Emma

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$NZ 29.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 29.99

Manuali'i *Ockham 2025 Long List*
Paget, Rex Letoa

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$NZ 29.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 29.99

/Slanted *Ockham 2025 Long List*
Glenny, Alison

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$NZ 29.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 29.99

Slender Volumes *Ockham 2025 Long List*
von Sturmer, Richard

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$NZ 37.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 37.99

Slim Volume *Ockham 2025 Long List*
Brown, James

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$NZ 24.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 24.99

The Girls in the Red House Are Singing *Ockham 2025 Long List*
Slaughter, Tracey

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$NZ 29.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 29.99

A Different Light: First Photographs of Aotearoa *Staff Pick 2024* *Ockham 2025 Long List*
Hammond, Catherine & Higgins, Shaun

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$NZ 64.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 64.99

Edith Collier: Early New Zealand Modernist *Ockham 2025 Long List*
Jill Trevelyan ed

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$NZ 69.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 69.99

Force Of Nature Te Aumangea O Te Turoa: A conservation history of Forest & Bird 1923-2023 *Staff Pick 2024* *Ockham 2025 Long List*
Young, David; Arnold, Naomi

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$NZ 89.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 89.99

Leslie Adkin: Farmer Photographer *Ockham 2025 Long List*
McCredie, Athol

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$NZ 69.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 69.99

Sam the Trap Man: Cracking yarns and tall tales from the bush *Ockham 2025 Long List*
Gibson, Sam

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$NZ 44.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 44.99

Sight Lines: Women and Art in Aotearoa *Ockham 2025 Long List*
Baker, Kirsty

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$NZ 69.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 69.99

Te Ata o Tu The Shadow of Tumatauenga: The New Zealand Wars Collections of Te Papa *Ockham 2025 Long List*
Rice, Rebecca

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$NZ 69.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 69.99

Toi Te Mana: An Indigenous History of Maori Art *Ockham 2025 Long List*
Brown, Deidre

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$NZ 99.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 99.99

Bad Archive *Staff Pick 2024* *Ockham 2025 Long List*
Feltham, Flora

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$NZ 34.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 34.99

Becoming Aotearoa: A new history of New Zealand *Ockham 2025 Long List*
Belgrave, Michael

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$NZ 64.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 64.99

Feijoa: A story of plants, people, obsession and belonging *Book of the Month March 2024* *Ockham 2025 Long List*
Evans, Kate

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$NZ 39.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 39.99

Hard by the Cloud House *Ockham 2025 Long List*
Walker, Peter

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$NZ 39.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 39.99

Hine Toa *Staff Pick 2024* *Ockham 2025 Long List*
te Awekotuku, Ngahuia

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$NZ 39.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 39.99

Kahurangi: The nature of Kahurangi National Park and Northwest Nelson *Ockham 2025 Long List*
Hansford, Dave

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$NZ 79.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 79.99

The Beautiful Afternoon *Ockham 2025 Long List*
Beautrais, Airini

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$NZ 39.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 39.99

The Chthonic Cycle *Ockham 2025 Long List*
Cruickshank, Una

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$NZ 34.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 34.99

The Invasion Of Waikato The Te Riri ki Tainui *Ockham 2025 Long List*
O'Malley, Vincent

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$NZ 39.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 39.99

The Mermaid Chronicles: A midlife mer-moir *Staff Pick 2024* *Ockham 2025 Long List*
Dunn, Megan

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$NZ 34.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 34.99

The Twisted Chain *Ockham 2025 Long List*
Gurney, Jason

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$NZ 34.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 34.99

The Unsettled: Small Stories of Decolonisation *Ockham 2025 Long List*
Shaw, Richard

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$NZ 39.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 39.99

Unreel: A memoir *Ockham 2025 Long List*
Wichtel, Diana

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$NZ 39.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 39.99

Booker International 2024

Not a River *Shortlist International Booker Prize 2024*
Almada, Selva

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$NZ 39.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 39.99

The Details *Shortlist International Booker Prize 2024*
Genberg, Ia

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$NZ 27.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 27.99

Mater 2-10 *Shortlist International Booker Prize 2024*
Sok-Yong, Hwang

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$NZ 39.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 39.99

What I'd Rather Not Think About *Shortlist International Booker Prize 2024*
Posthuma, Jente

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$NZ 34.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 34.99

Crooked Plow *Shortlist International Booker Prize 2024*
Viera Junior, Itamar

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$NZ 24.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 24.99

Simpatia *Longlist International Booker Prize 2024*
Blanco Calderon, Rodrigo

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$NZ 42.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 42.99

White Nights *Longlist International Booker Prize 2024*
Honek, Urszula

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$NZ 47.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 47.99

Lost on Me *Longlist International Booker Prize 2024*
Raimo, Veronica

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$NZ 27.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 27.99

Kairos *Winner International Booker Prize 2024*
Erpenbeck, Jenny (Y)

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$NZ 27.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 27.99

Special reads shared with our subscribers for 2024

Bird Child and Other Stories *Book of the Month February 2024*
Grace, Patricia

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$NZ 37.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 37.99

Feijoa: A story of plants, people, obsession and belonging *Book of the Month March 2024* *Ockham 2025 Long List*
Evans, Kate

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$NZ 39.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 39.99

How I Won A Nobel Prize
Taranto, Julius

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$NZ 37.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 37.99

The Night She Fell *Book of the Month April 2024*
Merriman, Eileen

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$NZ 37.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 37.99

James *Booker Prize Shortlist 2024* *Staff Pick 2024*
Everett, Percival

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$NZ 37.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 37.99

Moon Road *Book of the Month June 2024*
Leipciger, Sarah

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$NZ 37.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 37.99

Scaffolding
Elkin, Lauren

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$NZ 39.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 39.99

The Other Valley
Howard, Scott Alexander

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$NZ 37.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 37.99

Whaea Blue *Book of the Month September 2024* *Staff Pick 2024*
Marshall, Talia

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$NZ 39.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 39.99

There are Rivers in the Sky
Shafak, Elif

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$NZ 37.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 37.99

2024 Award Winning Reads

An Indigenous Ocean: Pacific Essays *Winner Ockham 2024 General Non-Fiction Award*
Salesa, Damon

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$NZ 49.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 49.99

At the Point of Seeing *Winner Ockham 2024 Best First Book Award (the Jessie Mackay Prize for Poetry)*
Kitching, Megan

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$NZ 24.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 24.99

Don Binney: Flight Path *Winner Ockham 2024 Booksellers NZ Award for Illustrated Non-Fiction*
O'Brien, Gregory

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$NZ 89.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 89.99

Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World *Women's Prize 2024 WINNER* *Staff Pick 2024*
Klein, Naomi

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$NZ 29.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 29.99

First Year - 2024 VOGEL WINNER
Kristina Ross

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$NZ 37.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 37.99

Te Rautakitahi o Tuhoe ki Orakau *Winner Ockhams 2024 Te Murau o Te Tuhi*
Temara, Ta Pou KNZM (Ngai Tuhoe)

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$NZ 39.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 39.99

There's a Cure for This: A Memoir *Winner Ockham 2024 EH McCormick Prize for General Non-Fiction*
Wehipeihana (Espiner), Emma

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$NZ 34.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 34.99

The Eyes and the Impossible (Newbery Medal Winner 2023)
Eggers, Dave

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$NZ 32.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 32.99

The Observologist: A handbook for mounting very small scientific expeditions *NZCYA 2024 Finalist* *Booksellers Choice Award 2024* *Staff Pick 2024*
Clarkson, Giselle

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$NZ 39.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 39.99

A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: A Palestine Story *Winner Pulitzer Prize 2024*
Thrall, Nathan

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$NZ 39.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 39.99

Patu: The New Zealand Wars *NZCYA 2024 Winner*
Bishop, Gavin

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$NZ 39.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 39.99

Catch a Falling Star *NZCYA 2024 Winner*
Merriman, Eileen

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$NZ 22.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 22.99

Nine Girls *NZCYA 2024 Winner*
Gregg, Stacy

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$NZ 22.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 22.99

Fungi of Aotearoa: A Curious Forager's Field Guide *Ockham 2024 Shortlist* *Booksellers Choice Award 2024*
Sisson, Liv

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$NZ 44.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 44.99

Miracle *2024 Ngaio Marsh Awards Winner*
Lane, Jennifer

Availability: In Stock

$NZ 47.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 47.99

Past the Tower, Under the Tree: Twelve Stories of Learning in Community *PANZ Books Design Award 2024 Winner*
Shingade, Erena

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$NZ 39.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 39.99

Greek Lessons *Winner Nobel Prize for Literature 2024*
Kang, Han

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$NZ 27.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 27.99

Question 7 *Baillie Gifford Prize 2024 Winner*
Flanagan, Richard

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$NZ 27.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 27.99

Question 7 *Baillie Gifford Prize 2024 Winner* HB
Flanagan, Richard

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$NZ 39.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 39.99

Orbital *Winner of Booker Prize 2024*
Harvey, Samantha

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$NZ 27.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 27.99

Kairos *Winner International Booker Prize 2024*
Erpenbeck, Jenny (Y)

Availability: In Stock

$NZ 27.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 27.99

Not Yet Published: Books To Get Excited About Already

A Nature Poem for every Autumn Evening: Volume 3
McMorland Hunter, Jane

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$NZ 37.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 37.99

A Wild Walk to School
Cobb, Rebecca

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$NZ 17.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 17.99

Onyx Storm HB
Yarros, Rebecca

Availability: In Stock

$NZ 64.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 64.99

1001 Days: How Our First Years Shape Our Lifelong Health
Gerhardt, Sue

Availability: Not Yet Published – Pre-order

$NZ 39.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 39.99

Deep River
Endo, Shusaku

Availability: On order. Expected in store soon

$NZ 27.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 27.99

He, She, They, Us: An Anthology of Queer Poems
Castelletti, Charlie

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$NZ 44.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 44.99

Mau Moko: The World of Maori Tattoo
Te Awekotuku, Ngahuia

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$NZ 49.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 49.99

Africonomics: A History of Western Ignorance
Everill, Bronwen

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$NZ 39.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 39.99

The Book of Guilt
Chidgey, Catherine

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$NZ 37.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 37.99

Maiden, Mother, Crone: A Collection
Harris, Joanne

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$NZ 27.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 27.99

A Mini Guide to the Identification of New Zealand Spiders
Crowe, Andrew

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$NZ 14.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 14.99

Deep End
Hazelwood, Ali

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$NZ 27.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 27.99

Nobody's Fool
Coben, Harlan

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$NZ 37.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 37.99

University Book Shop... for all booklovers, everywhere.

Dunedin's most loved independent book shop, full of beautiful books, elegant gifts, stationery and NZ Post postal services, find us at 378 Great King Street, our home since 1962.

Our Very Own Bestseller List - Weekly Top 10

Summer Reading

Ockham Longlist 2025

Booker International 2024

Special reads shared with our subscribers for 2024

2024 Award Winning Reads

Not Yet Published: Books To Get Excited About Already

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