The Quick and the Dead - True stories of life and death from a New Zealand pathologist by Cynric Temple-Camp
$39.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good
Dr Cynric Temple-Camp's suspense-filled, often Gothic story-telling ability captivated readers in his debut book, The Cause of Death. In the Quick and the Dead, New Zealand's self-confessed aficionado of death is back with more mysterious illnesses, gruesome murders, baffling crimes, and the other curio ...Show more
Still Counting - Wellbeing, Women's Work and Policy-Making (BWB Texts) by Marilyn Waring
$14.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: very good
30 years ago, Marilyn Waring's ground-breaking book Counting for Nothing was released. Waring explained, through meticulous economic analysis, how the success of the global economy rests on women's unpaid work. Counting for Nothing became a phenomenon: it was read and discussed around the world, and ev ...Show more
Zen Heart - What I've Learned from Animals and Life by Mark Vette
$40.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: good-very good
A cheeky baboon, a cockatoo sending a heading dog out to round up sheep, a family of pukekos crossing the road, a dog saying 'bugger', an octopus taking a photo. Think of an ad you love, or a New Zealand-made movie, and if it has an animal in it chances are Mark Vette was behind it. He's trained almost ...Show more
Scenic Playground by Peter Alsop; Dave Bamford; Lee Davidson
$60.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good
This lavish book explores the story behind the promotion of New Zealand's mountains through posters, advertisements, hand-coloured photos and more. It explains how the country built its reputation as an alpine playground and, alongside, how mountains became central to belonging in Aotearoa.
Dad Man Walking - Dispatches from the Frontlines of Fatherhood by Toby Morris
$22.08 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: near fine
The ups and downs of dad life, as drawn by award-winning cartoonist Toby Morris. Toby- What do dads do? Kid- Drink a lot of beer. Honest and real, warts and all, here are the ups and downs of modern dad life as drawn by award-winning cartoonist (and dad) Toby Morris. With over 100 full-colour pages ...Show more
A Queer Existence - The lives of young gay men in Aotearoa New Zealand by Mark Beehre
$45.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: near fine
Queer Existence is a major documentary project that uses photographic portraitureand oral history to record the life experiences of a group of 27 gay men bornsince the passing of the Homosexual Law Reform Act in 1986. In New Zealand,discrimination in work was outlawed in 1993, same-sex relationships wer ...Show more
Above the Treeline: A nature guide to alpine New Zealand by Alan Mark
$80.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand
'Above the Treeline' is an essential publication for anyone interested in the natural world of alpine New Zealand, a guide not only to the plants, but also the ferns, mosses, lichen, invertebrates, birds and lizards that occupy these rich and diverse environments. This book is based on a smaller field g ...Show more
Landfall 242: Spring 2021 by Lynley Edmeades (editor)
$30.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Series: Landfall Ser.
Landfall is New Zealand's foremost and longest-running arts and literary journal. It showcases new fiction and poetry, as well as biographical and critical essays, and cultural commentary. Each issue brims with a mix of vital new work by this country's best writers. There are reviews of the latest boo ...Show more
Relentless - How a Mother and Daughter Defied the Odds by Lisa Tamati
$32.95 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
When extreme endurance athlete, Lisa Tamati, was confronted with the hardest challenge of her life, she fought with everything she had. Her beloved mother, Isobel, had suffered a brain aneurysm and a stroke, resulting in massive brain damage; she was like a baby in a woman's body. Relentless tells a sto ...Show more
Impossible: My Story - Stan Walker by Stan Walker
$39.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: near fine
An extraordinary memoir about family, love, belief, redemption and the power of forgiveness. Everything has a reason. Everything has a purpose. Stan Walker is one of the finest singers to emerge from Australia and New Zealand Aotearoa in a generation. When Stan won Australian Idol in 2009, he was thrown ...Show more
Homesteads: The Story of New Zealand's Grand Country Houses by Debra Millar
$75.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand
A stunning tribute to the grand homes built by New Zealand's pioneering pastoralists, Homesteads shares a remarkable legacy of this country's rural heritage. These houses are among some of the country's most iconic, many of them surrounded by equally notable gardens, and all still lived in today. Jane ...Show more