In a Fishbone Church by Catherine Chidgey
$35.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good
When Clifford Stilton dies, his son Gene crams his carefully kept diaries into a hall cupboard – but Clifford's words have too much life in them to be ignored, and start to permeate his family's world. Clifford taught Gene about how to find rocks and fossils, and about how to kill birds and fish. Gene p ...Show more
The Front Line: Images of New Zealanders in the Second World War by Glyn Harper; Susan Lemish
$80.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand
NEW ZEALAND'S WAR THROUGH THE LENS OF THOSE WHO SERVED A landmark book exploring New Zealand's second world war effort through over 800 photographs, many never before published and many live-action shots takenby those at the front. The images span North Africa, Europe and the Pacific, as well as action ...Show more
New Zealand Wine: the Land, the Vines, the People by Moran Warren
$69.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand
Mount Difficulty Pinot Noir and Spy Valley Riesling. Montana Sauvignon Blanc and Cloudy Bay Chardonnay. Though the New Zealand wine industry really began only fifty years ago, vines and winemakers have now spread across the land - from Central Otago to Kumeu, Waipara to Wairarapa - to produce notable wi ...Show more
Jock's Country by David Henshaw
$49.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand
A long-time resident of Tamahere in Waikato, David communicated with farmers for more than 40 years through his cartoons - his main character, Jock, is recognised as a national identity. His cartoons appeared in the New Zealand Farmer for 34 years and on the Jock calendar for the past 17 years. The cart ...Show more
Lost Wonders: Vanished Creatures of Aotearoa by Sarah Ell
$24.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand
The story of the lost wonders of New Zealand's natural history: the extinct species which are now gone forever. Lost Wonders also features some key species which are on the brink - critically endangered - and the efforts that are being made to save them for future generations. The stories of these fasc ...Show more
Fake Baby by Amy McDaid
$36.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: near fine
Fake Baby is a tender and funny exploration of the power of words, our perception of resilience and what it means to be real. Nine Days. One City. Three Oddballs. Stephen's dead father is threatening to destroy the world. If Stephen commits the ultimate sacrifice and throws himself into the harbour, he ...Show more
A Long Time Coming: The story of Ngai Tahu's treaty settlement negotiations with the Crown by Martin Fisher
$39.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: near fine
The Ngai Tahu settlement, like all other Treaty of Waitangi settlements in Aotearoa New Zealand, was more a product of political compromise and expediency than measured justice. The Ngai Tahu claim, Te Kereme, spanned two centuries, from the first letter of protest to the Crown in 1849 to the final hea ...Show more
The Leaning Man by Anne Harre
$37.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand
Wellington. The land dips and rolls, the wind has a life of its own. Dig a little deeper and the city is unforgiving and unrepentant. Forget the politicians, they’re poor amateurs in deception and crime. It’s Saturday night down on the wharf. Celebrations are in full swing for the Westons’ fortieth wed ...Show more
Birds of New Zealand: Collective Nouns by Melissa Boardman
$29.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: near fine
A beautifully illustrated book featuring New Zealand Aotearoa's native birds, each with its very own collective noun. A tussock of takahē? A hoon of kākā? A whistling of whio? This beautifully illustrated book of collective noun names for our native birds reveals something unique about their cha ...Show more
Cousins by Patricia Grace
$30.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: good
A reprint of one of Patricia Grace's best-loved novels about three girls and what happens as they grow up. Cousins is a stunning novel of tradition and change, of the whanau and its struggle to survive, of the place of women in a changing world. It is an engrossing story that runs on in the head long af ...Show more
The First Migration : Māori Origins 3000BC – AD1450 (BWB Texts) by Atholl Anderson
$14.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: good
Thousands of years ago migrants from South China began the journey that took their descendants through the Pacific to the southernmost islands of Polynesia. Atholl Anderson's ground-breaking synthesis of research and tradition charts this epic journey of New Zealand's first human inhabitants. Taken fro ...Show more
Knowledge is a Blessing on Your Mind: Selected Writings, 1980-2020 by Anne Salmond
$65.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand
For fifty years, Dame Anne Salmond has navigated 'te ao hurihuri' - travelling to hui in her little blue VW Beetle with Eruera and Amiria Stirling in the 1970s, working for a university marae alongside Merimeri Penfold, Patu Hohepa and Wharetoroa Kerr in the 1980s, giving evidence to the Waitangi Tribun ...Show more