Carson's Bookshop

08/04/2026

The Autumn Reading Guide has landed today - hand-picked recommendations by a collective of Indie Booksellers Aotearoa NZ.
Pop in to grab a copy, and fall into your next great read! 📚📔📒📕📗📘📚

07/01/2026

Volume 2 of David Wilton's Archeology of 'The Thames' Goldfield AVAILABLE IN STORE NOW.

We've been waiting for this one - volume one has been so popular!!
On sale at The Treasury (open 11-3pm Wed-Saturday) or at Carson's Bookshop on Pollen Street, or you can buy it via our online bookshop on our website.

13/12/2025

13/12/2025

New gift and game collections, and of course oir comprehensive book selection. Open 7 days including Sundays 10am to 3pm all the way to Christmas Eve. 🎄🎁⭐🎄🎁⭐🎄

13/12/2025

13/12/2025

New gift collections have arrived. We are open on Sundays from 10am to 3pm for your convenience.

29/11/2025

Stress Free Xmas Shopping: Carson's Bookshop every Sunday from 9am - 3pm 🌲🌲🌲

22/11/2025

REMINDER: BOOK LAUNCH EVENT TODAY SUNDAY 23 NOVEMBER 1PM:
Join us to meet Andy and celebrate the launch of this wonderful book telling the story of Adventure Racing Coromandel. Hear Andy's interview with RNZ below:

The Coromandel is growing in reputation as a centre for adventure, thanks in a large part to Andy Reid. Andy co-founded Adventure Racing Coromandel with his mate Keith Stephenson, creating lots of events including the K2 bike race and the Kauri Run. Now Andy has written a book taking us behind the s...

16/11/2025

BOOK EVENT / AUTHOR TALK: SUNDAY 23 NOVEMBER 1PM
Come along to celebrate Adventure Racing Coromandel's book release - meet Andy and hear first hand the story of ARC, and share memories of these amazing events, the people, the stories, the legacy.

New Zealand gave the world adventure racing; its spiritual home the beautiful Coromandel peninsula, where a friendship between a Kiwi butcher and an English accountant gave rise to Adventure Racing Coromandel, the longest-running event of its kind.

Once a year hundreds of men and women ran, kayaked and biked on tracks, trails and tributaries Keith and Andy unearthed, cleared and created in their own weekend adventures all over the Coromandel.

Their races became legendary for myths and legends, for semi-dangerous challenges like jumping off waterfalls or crawling through mineshafts and for practical jokes like checkpoints guarded by sharks or (real) eels and guerrillas suddenly appearing from nowhere.

More events followed; the K2 bike race - New Zealand’s toughest and most prestigious cycle road race and the Kauri Run, a tough ultra with shorter options and a community event. For every runner, a kauri was planted. All money raised from the events was used in the community to promote outdoor adventures and the events themselves brought huge economic benefit to the region.

This is the story of Adventure Racing Coromandel and the hundreds of volunteers and thousands of participants (among them Richie McCaw, Jack Osborne, model Jodie Kidd) who came each year to immerse themselves in the fierce beauty of the Coromandel.

It’s also about their legacy; of inspiring generations, planting some 20,000 kauri trees and creating Coromandel Township’s very own mountain bike park.

15/11/2025

Featured on RNZ this morning...Unlock the secrets of your feline friend with Cat Zen by Mark Vette. Drawing from over four decades of experience, Mark Vette offers a fresh perspective on understanding and training cats. This book is more than a manual; it's an invitation to see your cat with new eyes.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/sunday/audio/2019012887/mark-vette-raising-a-zen-cat

03/11/2025

Jack's Back!
It's that time of year, as the latest Jack Reacher drops in.
Jack Reacher will make three stops today. Not all of them were planned for.
First - a Baltimore coffee shop. A seat in the corner, facing the door. Black coffee, two refills, no messing about. A minor interruption from two of the customers, but nothing he can't deal with swiftly. As he leaves, a young guy brushes against him in the doorway. Instinctively Reacher checks the pocket holding his cash and passport. There's no problem. Nothing is missing.

Second - a store to buy a coat. Nothing fancy. Something he can ditch when he heads to warmer climes. Large enough to fit a man the size of a bank vault. As he pulls out his cash, he finds something new in his pocket. A handwritten note. A desperate plea for help.

Third - wherever this bend in the road takes him. Impressed by the guy's technique and intrigued by the message, Reacher makes it his mission to find out more . . .

26/10/2025