New Releases

In a major publishing event, renowned artist Jeannie Baker’s new picture book Mirror was officially launched at the Museum of Sydney on Wednesday 18 August 2010 by Her Excellency Professor Marie Bashir AC CVO, Governor of NSW.
 
Over two hundred people gathered to celebrate the publication of what many believe to be Jeannie’s best book yet. Featuring intricate, eye-catching artworks, the original collages  are now exhibited to the public at the Museum of Sydney.

The 4 Powers of Daren Sáner
by Michael Oehley

Scholastic New Zealand
ISBN 9781869439453

Publication - September 2010
NZ RRP $18.99
Format - 198 x 128 mm, Paperback, 336 pp
Age 10+ years
Rights available World excl. ANZ

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When American Kathy Giuffre decides to take her two small sons and flee to Rarotonga for a year to escape a broken marriage, a second failed relationship, and a high-stress life as a working single mother, she is taking the biggest gamble of her life.

She knows no one on the island – in fact she hardly knows where it is. She is leaving a comfortable, if sometimes fraught, position as a university lecturer at Colorado College.

Awakening young readers to the wonders that surround them is the kaupapa (mission) of Sharing Our Stories, a group of committed young leaders who today release their first book in English and Te Reo editions.

The Castle in our Backyard (in English) and Te Pā Kaha kei tō tatōu Iāri (in Māori) is the first book by group member Malcolm Paterson, and is illustrated by young Karekare artist Leah Mulgrew.

Set in Wellington, Whiti Hereaka’s new novel, The Graphologist’s Apprentice, explores the art of handwriting, an art that is fast losing its value in a technological world. It’s also a story of how fiction and fantasy can override the realities of a contemporary urban lifestyle.

Whiti and Huia Publishers will be launching The Graphologist’s Apprentice at the Museum of Wellington City and Sea, 1 Jervois Quay, Wellington, on Thursday, 29 July at 6.00pm. 

Simon & Schuster UK is thrilled to announce its publication of The Power, the new book by Rhonda Byrne, author of the worldwide phenomenon, The Secret.

The Power will be published on 17 August 2010. Simon & Schuster UK acquired UK and Commonwealth Rights from Atria Books, a division of Simon & Schuster Inc., in the US. An announcement about the book was made by Judith Curr, Executive Vice-President and Publisher of Atria Books and Washington Square Press.

Can it text? Blog? Scroll? Tweet? No. . . It’s a book.

There was a bidding war over this book when it was presented at Bologna earlier this year and Walker Books scooped the ANZ rights! So far, It’s a Book is going to be published in Australia, New Zealand, England, Netherlands, France, Italy, Japan, Korea and Sweden!

For lovers and defenders of book culture of all ages – arm yourselves with this book and unite!

Check out the book trailer below:

Sports writing is hot. One of the best-selling books published in the US every year is the acclaimed The Best American Sports Writing, which started in 1991 and has been guest-edited by such literary luminaries as Richard Ford and David Halberstam.

In New Zealand, the genre started with a rush in 1992 with the publication of Lloyd Jones’ superb anthology Into the Field of Play, but since then nothing.

WSG Media are proud to announce that their latest title, Snow‐search Japan, has won the Gold Medal in the best Travel Guidebook category at the 2010 Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPY’s).

The IPPY awards are the World's largest international and regional book awards competition and this year the 14th annual competition saw 3,890 entries in the 67 main and US regional categories.