The Trowenna Sea by Witi Ihimaera
55.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Hohepa Te Umuroa is with Te Rauparaha at the Wairau killings in the 1840s, and at Boulcotts Farm in the Hutt Valley when white settlers lose their lives. Convicted of insurrection, he and four companions are transported to the convict town of Hobart to serve their sentences. Ismay Glossop and her doctor ...Show more
Knock Knock: Confessions of a Kiwi Interviewer by Trish Palmer
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Biography
Extraordinary stories from a lifetime spent conducting interviews. This is the world of the dreaded door-knock from the other side of the door. Trish Palmer has been working as an interviewer and area manager for market research companies for over 20 years, invited into the homes and private lives of a ...Show more
Fishes of Aotearoa by Paul Caiger
80.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Natural History | Reading Level: near fine
With such a long coastline, and countless rivers and lakes, New Zealand truly is an aquatic nation, home to a bounty of colourful and characterful fishes. Fishes of Aotearoa, is a major celebration of this fish life, set to the backdrop of all our primary underwater habitats, from freshwater rivers, lak ...Show more
A Painted Voyage by Sean Garwood
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Art
The 108 page book featuring 27 ofSean Garwood's maritime paintings Informative background text on the artist as well as the subjects of his paintings depicting New Zealand's maritime history. Sean’s experience and understanding the sea is clearly evident in his work and it has led him to become one ...Show more
The Forgotten Forest: In Search of the Lost Plants and Fungi of Aotearoa by Robert Vennell
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Natural History
A guide to the spectacular oddities of the New Zealand forest, by the bestselling author of The Meaning of Trees and Secrets of the Sea. Deep in the forest, in places you would never think to look, are some of the most remarkable creatures. Overlooked and unsung, this is the forgotten forest: a world ...Show more
Nine Girls by Stacy Gregg
22.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Children - 9 to 14 | Reading Level: near fine
Nine Girls is a page-turning adventure from Stacy Gregg, one of Aotearoa's most internationally successful and locally awarded writers.An epic story woven with suspense by Pony Club Secrets and The Princess and the Foal author Stacy Gregg.They dug a hole and they put the box filled with gold inside it.T ...Show more
Where the Flaming Hell Are We?: The story of young Australians and New Zealanders fighting the Nazis in Greece and Crete by Craig Collie
38.00 NZD
Category: Military
The gripping story of Australia and New Zealand in the fight for the Aegean - through the eyes of the soldiers. 'We used our knees and our rifle butts and our blades. For a while we stopped being ordinary blokes and became blood-lusted creatures.' March, 1941: 40,000 Australian and New Zealand troops a ...Show more
Hairy Maclary Treasury: The Complete Adventures of Hairy Maclary by Lynley Dodd
50.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Childrens Picture Books
This beautiful gold 40th-birthday edition of the bestselling Hairy Maclary Treasury is a complete collection of Hairy Maclary's adventures, and includes a reading of the stories by Lynley Dodd. Out of the gate and off for a walk went Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy . . . Ever since 1983, when Hairy ...Show more
Wonderland: The New Zealand Photographs of Whites Aviation by Peter Alsop
50.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Art | Reading Level: near fine
Whites Aviation produced many of New Zealand's best hand-coloured photos between the 1950s and 1970s. These glorious senic vistas changed the way we saw our country and were a sensation, adorning offices and lounges thoughout the land. Now, despite massive changes in society and photography, these retro ...Show more
What Happened to the Moa (PB) by Ned Barraud
20.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Childrens Picture Books
This children’s book unravels the fascinating story of what happened to the moa, the legendary flightless bird of Aotearoa New Zealand. In this gloriously illustrated book, Ned Barraud describes the nine different species of moa, ranging from a small bush moa just over a metre high, to the giant moa at ...Show more
Mister Pip (Popular Penguin) by Lloyd Jones
16.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Fiction
In a novel that is at once intense, beautiful, and fablelike, Lloyd Jones weaves a transcendent story that celebrates the resilience of the human spirit and the power of narrative to transform our lives. On a copper-rich tropical island shattered by war, where the teachers have fled with most everyone e ...Show more
Artists in Antarctica by Patrick Shepherd (editor)
80.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Art | Reading Level: near fine
What transformation happens when writers, musicians and artists stand in the vast, cold spaces of Antarctica? This book brings together paintings, photographs, texts and musical scores by Aotearoa New Zealand artists who have been to the ice. It explores the impact of this experience on their art and ar ...Show more