Do You Still Have Time For Chaos? by Lynn Davidson
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Biography
Do You Still Have Time for Chaos? tells the story of poet and teacher Lynn Davidson’s late-life decision to leave Aotearoa New Zealand, with scant resources, to build a life in Scotland. In 2020, in the frightening quiet of a Covid-emptied Edinburgh, she begins her memoir; temporarily at home at the Ra ...Show more
Angelina: From Stromboli to D'Urville Island - A Family's Story by Gerard Hindmarsh
35.00 NZD
Category: Nelson
In 1906, at just 16 years of age, Angelina Criscillo left the tiny volcanic island of Stromboli off Sicily to travel to an even remoter island on the other side of the world. From the age of eight she had been betrothed to her cousin, Vincenzo Moleta, who was now twice her age and taking her to a new l ...Show more
Ross Taylor: Black & White by Paul Thomas
50.00 NZD
Category: Fitness/Sport
When an athlete with an exceptional record of achievement and longevity comes to the end of their career, the numbers can speak for themselves.Ross Taylor has scored the most runs, made the most centuries and taken the most catches by a New Zealander in international cricket. He's the first New Zealand ...Show more
The Kiwi Runners' Family Tree: Volume One: 1800s - 1999 by Dreydon Sobanja
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Biography | Series: The Kiwi Runners' Family Tree
The Kiwi Runners' Family Tree tells the stories of over one hundred running related athletes and coaches, focusing on the interconnections between the generations as well as the important relationships within those generations. This family tree has well-grounded roots, a strong trunk and a vast amount o ...Show more
Te Whiti o Rongomai and the Resistance of Parihaka by Danny Keenan
45.00 NZD
Category: Māori - History
This is an account of the life and times of Te Whiti o Rongomai set against the politics and Crown policies of the nineteenth century. It traces the forces that shaped his life's journey from Ngamotu, where he was born, to his settling at Parihaka and his evolving sense of the injustices and disempowerm ...Show more
A Natural Year: Living Simply Through the Seasons by Wendyl Nissen
45.00 NZD
Category: Natural History | Reading Level: very good
Wendyl's story of living the simple life in the country: gardening, foraging, fishing and the freedom she has found in ageing. Beautifully illustrated and including 100 new and delicious recipes. 'An absolute cracker of a guide to feeling content by living more naturally.' - Lynda Hallinan 'When I read ...Show more
My Beautiful Island: From England to New Zealand via Hong Kong and a war by Chris Potter
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Biography
A Fish In the Swim of the World by Ben Brown
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Biography | Reading Level: very good
Affecting and evocative, this classic memoir by one of Aotearoa's finest Maori writers is now updated with new material. 'This is a book of memories. Some of them are my own. Some of them belong to others. They are as true and as fallible as any memories-distorted by time and distance and a writer's cho ...Show more
Invincible by WJ Moloney
45.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Biography
This is the incredible story of one man's journey through a world war and then onto world-wide sporting glory. Son White and his horse Ben endured the horrors of WWI. Upon White's return home, he embarks on another journey with another group of young New Zealanders, who bind together to become Invincibl ...Show more
Seeking the Light: Climbing all 24 of New Zealand's Highest Mountains by Gavin Lang
90.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Biography
'Seeking the Light' is the story of climbing New Zealand's 24 highest mountains, those peaks in the Southern Alps/Ka Tiritiri o te Moana that rise above 3000 metres. Written by Wanaka-based mountain guide and adventure photographer Gavin Lang, the account of each climb is illustrated with his breathtaki ...Show more
Tikanga: Living with the traditions of te ao Māori by Francis Tipene, Kaiora Tipene
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Biography
The stars of The Casketeers on how to live a fulfilling life, rich with tikanga. Following on from the bestseller Life as a Casketeer, Francis and Kaiora Tipene share how they bring the traditional values of tikanga Māori into day-to-day living and what they learnt about the concepts of te ao Māori grow ...Show more
The Commercial Hotel by John Summers
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Biography
When John Summers moved to a small town in the Wairarapa and began to look closely at the less-celebrated aspects of local life - our club rooms, freezing works, night trains, hotel pubs, landfills - he saw something deeper. It was a story about his own life, but mostly about a place and its people. The ...Show more