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.

Great King Street: Monday - Friday 9.00am - 5.30pm | Saturday & Sunday 10.00am - 4.00pm
On Campus: Monday - Friday 9.00am - 4.00pm | Saturday & Sunday Closed

Our Very Own Bestseller List - Weekly Top 10

The Let Them Theory
Robbins, Mel

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$NZ 32.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 32.99

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

Humanly Possible: The great humanist experiment in living
Bakewell, Sarah

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$NZ 29.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 29.99

All Fours
July, Miranda

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$NZ 37.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 37.99

The Bookshop Detectives: Dead Girl Gone
Ward, Gareth and Louise

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$NZ 37.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 37.99

Death at the Sign of the Rook
Atkinson, Kate

Availability: In Stock

$NZ 37.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 37.99

Sale

The Pool
Tunnicliffe, Hannah

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$NZ 39.99 $NZ 46.00 Ex Tax: $NZ 39.99

One In Three
Harrison, Mira

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$NZ 32.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 32.99

Dog Man 12: The Scarlet Shedder
Pilkey, Dav

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$NZ 24.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 24.99

Here One Moment *Staff Pick 2024*
Moriarty, Liane

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$NZ 37.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 37.99

Lifescapes: A Biographer's Search for the Soul
Wroe, Ann

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$NZ 39.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 39.99

Woolsheds: The historic shearing sheds of Aotearoa New Zealand
Ussher, Jane

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$NZ 84.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 84.99

Summer Reading

Kataraina
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*
Makereti, Tina

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$NZ 39.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 39.99

All That We Know
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

Booker Prize 2024

My Friends *Booker Prize Longlist 2024*
Matar, Hisham

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$NZ 37.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 37.99

Wandering Stars *Booker Prize Longlist 2024*
Orange, Tommy

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$NZ 37.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 37.99

Creation Lake *Booker Prize Shortlist 2024*
Kushner, Rachel

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$NZ 37.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 37.99

This Strange Eventful History *Booker Prize Longlist 2024*
Messud, Claire

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$NZ 37.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 37.99

Playground *Booker Prize Longlist 2024* *Staff Pick*
Powers, Richard

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$NZ 37.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 37.99

Enlightenment *Booker Prize Longlist 2024*
Perry, Sarah

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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

Stone Yard Devotional *Booker Prize Shortlist 2024* *Staff Pick 2024*
Wood, Charlotte

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$NZ 37.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 37.99

Headshot *Booker Prize Longlist 2024*
Bullwinkel, Rita

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$NZ 27.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 27.99

Orbital *Winner of Booker Prize 2024*
Harvey, Samantha

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$NZ 27.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 27.99

Held *Booker Prize Shortlist 2024*
Michaels, Anne

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$NZ 24.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 24.99

Creation Lake *Booker Prize Shortlist 2024* HB
Kushner, Rachel

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$NZ 59.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 59.99

James *Booker Prize Shortlist 2024* HB
Everett, Percival

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$NZ 49.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 49.99

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

Undiscovered *Longlist International Booker Prize 2024*
Wiener, Gabriela

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$NZ 37.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 37.99

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

Availability: In Stock

$NZ 37.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 37.99

Feijoa: A story of plants, people, obsession and belonging *Book of the Month March 2024*
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

Availability: In Stock

$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

Availability: In Stock

$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

Availability: In Stock

$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

Availability: In Stock

$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

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$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* 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
Yarros, Rebecca

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$NZ 37.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 37.99

Onyx Storm HB
Yarros, Rebecca

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$NZ 64.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 64.99

After The War
Fenton, Patricia

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$NZ 29.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 29.99

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

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$NZ 39.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 39.99

Portrait of a Shadow
Metoui, Meriam

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$NZ 37.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 37.99

Deep River
Endo, Shusaku

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$NZ 27.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 27.99

Mana Moana: Nga Urungi o Te Ohu Kaimoana Toitu mo Anamata / Navigators of Sustainable Fisheries for the Future
Houkamau, Carla

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$NZ 49.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 49.99

50 AI Ideas You Really Need to Know
Mansfield, Keith

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$NZ 24.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 24.99

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

2025 Guide to the Night Sky Southern Hemisphere: A month-by-month guide to exploring the skies above Australia, New Zealand and South Africa
Topalovic, Radmila

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$NZ 24.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 24.99

Taonga Puoru: Singing Treasures : the Musical Instruments of the Maori
Flintoff, Brian

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$NZ 39.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 39.99

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

Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich
Jahner, Harald

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$NZ 29.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 29.99

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

A Guide to the Dark
Metoui, Meriam

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$NZ 24.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 24.99

Aesop's Fables: A New Translation
Aesop

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$NZ 59.99 Ex Tax: $NZ 59.99

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.

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