Unity Books Auckland Staff Picks for 2013
At Unity Books Auckland, we’ve read so many terrific books this year that it has been difficult for each of us to pick our final shortlist. Here are our staff…
Nonfiction
Lost At Sea: The Jon Ronson Mysteries by Ron Jonson
Lost At Sea: The Jon Ronson Mysteries Jon Ronson, MacMillan ($40) Ronson investigates the strange things we’re willing to believe in, from lifelike robots programmed with our loved ones’ personalities…
Copendium: An Expedition into the Rock’n’Roll Underworld by Julian Cope
Copendium: An Expedition into the Rock’n’Roll Underworld Julian Cope, Faber & Faber ($75) Click here to listen to Kiran’s review on 95bFM’s Morning Glory show. This firecracker of a book…
How Music Works by David Byrne
How Music Works David Byrne, Canongate ($50) Click here to listen to Kiran’s review on 95bFM’s Morning Glory show with Charlotte Ryan. With a robust intelligence, David Byrne explores music…
Wire: Pink Flag (33 1/3 Series) by Neate Wilson
Wire: Pink Flag (33 1/3 Series) Wilson Neate, Continuum ($25) Click here to listen to Kiran’s review on 95bFM’s Morning Glory Show. In this book, Wilson Neate gets beneath the…
Zone of the Marvelous by Martin Edmond
‘He’s constantly demonstrating that the natural world is as splendiferous as any fable.’ – Jim Shepard, New York Times ‘From Plato’s Atlantis to Dante’s Mount Purgatory, Sinbad the Sailor to Abel…
The Life of Edith Piaf by Carolyn Clark
The Life of Edith Piaf Carolyn Burke, Bloomsbury UK ($25) It seems like it’s harder than ever to separate the legends that have been cultivated around the life of Edith…
Pulphead: Essays by John Jeremiah Sullivan
Pulphead: Essays John Jeremiah Sullivan, Farrar, Straus & Giroux ($32) CHECK OUT THE Bfm REVIEW WITH LILY RICHARDS BY CLICKING HERE. Or buy PULPHEAD in our online store!
Moonwalking With Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything by Joshua Foer
Moonwalking With Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything Joshua Foer, Allen & Unwin ($30) How to Memorize Everything, a review by Alexandra Horowitz of the New York Times:…
Amexica by Ed Vulliamy
Amexica Ed Vulliamy, Vintage ($30) “As dawn broke over the vast desert, the body was still hanging beneath the overpass, having been suspended from it – decapitated and dangling by…
