Learning to Love Blue (#2) by Saradha Koirala

$25.00 NZD

Category: Children & Young Adult

The long-awaited sequel to Lonesome When You Go. With Vox Pop and high school behind her, 18-year-old Paige arrives in Melbourne with her suitcase and bass guitar; a copy of Bob Dylan's Chronicles and Joni Mitchell's Blue - a gift from her estranged mother that she's still learning to love. Following in The long-awaited sequel to Lonesome When You Go. With Vox Pop and high school behind her, 18-year-old Paige arrives in Melbourne with her suitcase and bass guitar; a copy of Bob Dylan's Chronicles and Joni Mitchell's Blue - a gift from her estranged mother that she's still learning to love. Following in the footsteps of her musical heroes, all of whom left home to make it in 1960s New York, Paige knows Melbourne's the new rock and roll capital of the world: if she can't make it here, she can't make it anywhere. Besides, her high school crush Spike lives here... Paige has always had music, but realises she still has a lot to learn about relationships: how to be vulnerable and how to be blue. ...Show more

Lonesome When You Go (#1) by Saradha Koirala

$49.95 NZD

Category: Penguin AU 2021 | Reading Level: very good

2017 Storylines Notable Book Award Winner — Young Adult Books Paige plays bass in high school rock band Vox Pop, which means keeping a steady rhythm even in their most raucous rock and roll moments. But in the tense build-up to the Rockfest competition, Paige finds she can’t control everything in her li 2017 Storylines Notable Book Award Winner — Young Adult Books Paige plays bass in high school rock band Vox Pop, which means keeping a steady rhythm even in their most raucous rock and roll moments. But in the tense build-up to the Rockfest competition, Paige finds she can’t control everything in her life, no matter how hard she practises and how loud she plays. There’s stuff happening in the band that she can’t put her finger on, a friend who can’t handle her own secret anymore and a mysterious guy who plays double bass like an angel. But there isn’t much time to sort things out – Rockfest looms and so does the end of the school year, when everything will change for good. Lonesome When You Go is a novel about practising solo, performing like a rockstar and how contributing your best self to something can create a force much greater than the sum of its parts. ...Show more

Photos of the Sky by Saradha Koirala

$25.00 NZD

Category: Non-fiction

Tear Water Tea by Saradha Koirala

$19.99 NZD

Category: No Category | Reading Level: Near Fine

A baby grows from a poppyseed, a lizard is chased into dust. Remembering grandparents, dreaming of houses, contemplating nature and the nature of contemplation. This is the stuff of Tear Water Tea.

Wit of the Staircase by Saradha Koirala

$19.99 NZD

Category: No Category

Saradha Koirala studied English literature at Otago University before training as a secondary school teacher in Wellington. She has a Nepali father and a Kiwi mother who encouraged her at an early age to get out of sticky situations with wordplay and well-timed wit. In 2007 Saradha completed a Masters i Saradha Koirala studied English literature at Otago University before training as a secondary school teacher in Wellington. She has a Nepali father and a Kiwi mother who encouraged her at an early age to get out of sticky situations with wordplay and well-timed wit. In 2007 Saradha completed a Masters in Creative Writing from Victoria University. Her poems have appeared in Sport, the Lumiere Reader and Turbine. This is her first book. ...Show more