Now, here at BookieMonster we don’t promise to sell you 4 billion, squillion, million book titles – who has the money or time for that carry-on anyhoo?

What WE do is sell you interesting, individual and hand-selected (by moi, yes, moi) books. Books that will have you accosting strangers at parties and giving them a full run-down on the history of hardware and hardware stores (for example, and yes we do have that book).

Here’s my selection of some of our more unusual titles that we’re currently selling:

Did Monkeys Invent the Monkey Wrench by Vince Staten – a history of hardware and hardware stores. Hardware turns out to be surprisingly fascinating! Seriously!

Where God Was Born by Bruce Feiler - part travelogue, part religious study, part history lesson. Bruce Feiler travels through biblical sites around the Middle East.

The Sexual Life of Catherine M. by Catherine Millet - very French, Millet became something of a sensation after the publication of this graphic sexual memoir. Millet recounts her many experiences and interposes them with a dollop of philosophical thought regarding relationships and personal sexuality – reminiscent of both Jean Genet and Henry Miller.

Dog Parties: Entertaining Your Party Animals – People LOVE their dogs. I can understand this. And yes throwing them a party might seem like frou-frou – but these look like fun on a stick. Go with that anthropomorphization.

The Complete Guide to Uninvited Advice on Raising Children - you know the sort of thing: “Oh, we were teaching Bryannahxyz the basics of Swahili using flash cards the minute we got home from the hospital – you have to keep their brains busy at that age.” As the subtitle says: Everything you never wanted to know about raising children that people will tell you anyway.

Classic Literary Trivia - Never be stuck for an answer at that (admittedly very highbrow) pub quiz.

These are all titles from our selection of brand new books for sale!

We also have plenty of secondhand titles for you – I like to combine secondhand and new books because it caters for not only all budgets, but also for those booklovers who are looking for more classic books, or books no longer in print.

In that vein, here’s a selection of secondhand classic and older books for sale (and some New Zealand ones too!):

Lauris Edmond : Bonfires in the Rain – a memoir from one of New Zealand’s best writers and a sharp insight into New Zealand women’s lives in the mid-20th century. We also have…

Lauris Edmond : The Quick Word - the third volume in her trilogy of memoirs.

Memoirs of a Peon by Frank Sargeson – another New Zealand writer, one of Sargeson’s earliest novels.

The Penguin Dorothy Parker - Dorothy Parker is funny, crazy and an amazing short-story writer. She was also very very cruel to A.A. Milne, and therefore I like her a lot (sorry Piglet).

And then there’s just the unexplainable:

Stuff On My Cat : The Book - so there’s these cats, and they put stuff on them and then they took photos. Like lolcats. With extra stuff.

Jonathan Routh’s Good Loo Guide (to London) 1968 - Exactly what it says – a guide to London toilets. Seriously, toilets. A guide. To toilets. In London. Essential reading, if you ask me.

As always this is just a very small selection of the books we have for sale. Have a browse through all our listings, and don’t forget my Recommended Reads!

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