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Best reads and looks of 2015

My favourite reads and looks, which I discovered this year.

User from Christchurch City Libraries Ngā Kete Wānanga o Ōtautahi

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  • Simon is trying to keep hold of his memories in dystopian future London, where the world is controlled and manipulated by music. Intriguing structure and musically inspired style will keep you guessing to the very end!
    Book, 2015London : Sceptre, 2015. — FICTION
  • No one can sense and capture the world in a light and style like Tove Jansson does. A collection of short stories on travel will evoke all possible feelings that come with being elsewhere.
    eBook, 2011New York : Sort Of Books, 2011. — XX(829436.1)
  • Man Booker Prize nominee in 2012. Themes of war, belonging, remembering and forgetting are revealed in the story of retired judge, who retreats to the mountains of Malaya to learn the art of Japanese gardens.
    Book, 2012Newcastle upon Tyne : Myrmidon, 2012. — FICTION
  • This book, set in Swiss Alps, offers a different way of seeing the world and time. It also includes one of the most beautifully written erotic scene I have ever come across.
    eBook, 2014New York : Head of Zeus, 2014. — XX(893825.1)
  • The latest and probably the most adequate translation of original brothers Grimm's collection of folk tales.
    Book, 2014Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2014] — 398.2 GRI
  • The Singing Bones

    Inspired by Grimms' Fairy Tales

    Tan, Shaun, 1974-
    Shaun Tan's retelling of Grimms' Fairy Tales through sculpture is another masterpiece of this genius illustrator. My type of coffee table book.
    Book, 2015Crows Nest, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin Children's Books, 2015. — 398.2 TAN
  • Mr. Serafini imagined how a kid who can't yet read must feel while browsing a book. He ended up with this pictured encyclopedia masterpiece.
    Book, 2013New York : Rizzoli, 2013. — 709.2 SER