VOLUME FLYERS (7.11.26)

Catch these five books!

Let this week’s flyers land on the top of your reading pile.

MAY WE FEED THE KING by Rebecca Perry $35
May We Feed the King dances between a historical subject who resists the march of progress and a woman who turns to the past to hide from her present, to offer a beguiling meditation on history and storytelling: on what makes a King 'Great', and a life meaningful. 

THE DISAPPEARERS by Marlon James $38
’James is a singular literary talent. His dialogue is sharp and propulsive, his phrasing is poetic, visceral and capable of moving from the painful to the darkly hilarious within a single exchange. The Disappearers could be read as a long overdue, clear-eyed confrontation with Jamaican homophobia: unflinching in its honesty, but written with the full complexity and love of someone who knows the place and its contradictions from the inside.’ —Booker Prize judges’ citation

THE TREATY OF WAITANGI COMPANION by Vincent O’Malley and Bruce Stirling $60
Weaving together voices, documents and images from centuries of co-operation, conflict and change, this important book ranges from first contact between Maori and Europeans to today's debates over the place of te Tiriti o Waitangi in our constitutional arrangements. Beautifully presented and fully illustrated.

THE ROUSE by China Miéville $45
“Excellent though all the books on the shortlist are, it seemed only right to give this year's Goldsmiths Prize to the one that, in terms of ambition, bold use of history, linguistic experiment and sheer scale, broke most explosively with expectation.” —Francis Spufford, Goldsmiths Prize judge

THE VALLEY OF UNLIKELY ACQUAINTANCES by Terri Te Tau $38
“This is a real deal Māori sci-fi thriller dripping in small-town charisma, rongoā, and twists. Terri Te Tau somehow manages to prove, with eye-watering brains and a bit of Indigenous futurism, that the highest technology in the cosmos truly is our whakapapa.” —Coco Solid