Shop News!
Paige's Book Gallery - the retail store which won Wanganui's Best Small Retail Business Award in 2007, has moved to 60 Guyton Street. Just a few doors up from our old store., now on the corner of Guyton & Wicksteed.
Publishing News
We've
decided to delay the launch of 'Jandal Prints on the Globe', our
exciting release of New Zealand writing. This book is set to hit
bookshelves nationwide in early 2008. In the meantime...Download extracts of the Jandal Prints on the Globe
recommended titles of the month:
Winston's WorldSue Allison
978-0-473-11561-6
$19.99
Winston, a miniature long-haired dachshund, wants to impress his friends on his first day at the beach, but when you are a small dog in a big new place, sometimes it is an effort just keeping up. Winston's World is a photographic children's story book. While it is aimed at children aged 2 to 9, it has wider appeal among teenagers, adults and dog lovers at large.
LandingsJenny Pattrick
9781869419707
$27.99
The Whanganui River at the turn of the twentieth century is a busy thoroughfare, taking sightseers through the spectacular landscape by paddle steamer and acting as highway for the sparse scatterings of settlements along its twisting length. The people who have made it their home are a diverse collection, from Samuel Blencoe, trying to forget his past life as a convict, to the hoteliers at Pipiriki, the nuns at Jerusalem, the Maori families, the Chinese market gardener and the farmers, like Danny and Stella, trying to tame the wild bush. There's also Bridie, the strange, silent girl, who haunts the banks of the river where the accident occurred that robbed her of her mind. Like the tributaries that trickle down the mountains and join the mighty river, so the lives of these people come together in this vivid and moving tale of a stunningly unique place.