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What Are Endpapers? The Beauty Inside a Book

What Are Endpapers? The Beauty Inside a Book

What are endpapers? Explore marbled patterns, maps and illustrations, with photographed examples and a look at Persephone Books’ thoughtful designs.

What Are Endpapers? The Beauty Inside a Book

What are endpapers? Explore marbled patterns, maps and illustrations, with photographed examples and a look at Persephone Books’ thoughtful designs.

Retro Reads – Press & Events

Retro Reads in the press and out in the community — Plains FM podcast, Woman's Day NZ feature, and a panel event at Christchurch City Libraries for International Women's Day. 

Retro Reads – Press & Events

Retro Reads in the press and out in the community — Plains FM podcast, Woman's Day NZ feature, and a panel event at Christchurch City Libraries for International Women's Day. 

Taken In by Hopeful and Station Life in New Zealand by Lady Barker, photographed among ferns.

Taken In: A Migrant’s View of Colonial New Zealand

Was life in colonial New Zealand everything migrants were promised? Taken In, a series of letters by ‘Hopeful’, offers a less rosy view of the weather, costs and colonial society,...

Taken In: A Migrant’s View of Colonial New Zealand

Was life in colonial New Zealand everything migrants were promised? Taken In, a series of letters by ‘Hopeful’, offers a less rosy view of the weather, costs and colonial society,...

How to Buy Secondhand Books Online: A Practical Guide

How to Buy Secondhand Books Online: A Practical...

Buying a secondhand book online should be easy. Check out our plain language guide on grades, editions and condition - to make sure you choose the perfect book for you. 

How to Buy Secondhand Books Online: A Practical...

Buying a secondhand book online should be easy. Check out our plain language guide on grades, editions and condition - to make sure you choose the perfect book for you. 

World War 2 Books  - 4 Novels and 1 Biography

World War 2 Books - 4 Novels and 1 Biography

Looking for thoughtful World War II books? This reading list brings together four powerful novels and one biography, with stories of occupation, resistance, survival, and the human cost of war.

World War 2 Books - 4 Novels and 1 Biography

Looking for thoughtful World War II books? This reading list brings together four powerful novels and one biography, with stories of occupation, resistance, survival, and the human cost of war.

Crooked Cross and The Prisoner

Crooked Cross and The Prisoner

Sally Carson's books, Crooked Cross and The Prisoner, were written in the early 1930s and are set in pre-war Germany. One reader sent us this great review of the books...

Crooked Cross and The Prisoner

Sally Carson's books, Crooked Cross and The Prisoner, were written in the early 1930s and are set in pre-war Germany. One reader sent us this great review of the books...