How to get Fired by Evana Belich
37.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Fiction
Stories about the unifying subject of work - how to get it, avoid it or lose it. Wry, real and astute, these linked stories are from an exciting new talent. In BurgerKai, Mel is given a motivational talk on what she says is 'failing at a stupid, screwed-up sales job, selling stupid plastic shelving'. He ...Show more
There Was an Odd Farmer Who Swallowed a Fly by Peter Millett
21.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Childrens Picture Books
Kiwi kids will love this favourite nursery rhyme with witty words by Peter Millett and hilarious illustrations by Paul Beavis - and a surprise twist at the end!There was an odd farmer who swallowed a fly.I dunno why she swallowed a fly -it's such weird kai.Peek through the holes in the pages to see all ...Show more
Root Leaf Flower Fruit - A Verse Novel by Bill Nelson
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Poetry / Plays | Reading Level: near fine
A woman lies helpless after a stroke, her family gathered. Her grandson, healing slowly from a head injury after coming off his bike, takes leave from his job and family to prepare her rundown house and farm for sale. As he works, he sifts through what remains of his grandmother’s daily life. Then, afte ...Show more
AUP New Poets 9 by Sarah Lawrence; harold coutts; Arielle Walker
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Poetry / Plays | Series: AUP New Poets Ser.
Longing, fragility, romance and other tidal forces collide in AUP New Poets 9. In poems by Sarah Lawrence, harold coutts and Arielle Walker, three fresh, vivid voices arrive. In ‘Clockwatching’, Sarah Lawrence hurtles us into a world full of friends and homes and things, and wonders what they all migh ...Show more
A Kind of Shelter Whakaruru-taha by Witi Ihimaera (Editor); Michelle Elvy (Editor)
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Fiction | Series: 1st
Sixty-eight writers and eight artists gather at a hui in a magnificent cave-like dwelling or meeting house. In the middle is a table, the tepu korero, from which the rangatira speak; they converse with honoured guests, and their rangatira-korero embody the tahuhu, the over-arching horizontal ridge pole ...Show more
New Zealand Seaweeds: An Illustrated Guide by Wendy Nelson
65.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Natural History | Reading Level: near fine
A fully revised and completely redesigned edition of the first photographic identification guide to New Zealand's unique marine algae, by the country's pre-eminent seaweed expert Wendy Nelson. Across three main sections covering green, brown and red algae, over 150 genera and 250 key species are describ ...Show more
Colin McCahon: Is This the Promised Land?: Vol.2 1960-1987 by Peter Simpson
80.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Art | Series: Colin Mccahon Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
The second of an extraordinary two-volume work chronicling forty-five years of painting by our most important artist, Colin McCahon. Colin McCahon (1919–1987) was New Zealand’s greatest twentieth-century artist. Through landscapes, biblical paintings and abstraction, the introduction of words and Māori ...Show more
Uprising: Walking the Southern Alps of New Zealand by Nic Low
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Biography
This book is about walking as a form of knowing. Armed with Ngāi Tahu’s ancient oral maps and modern satellite atlas, I crossed the Southern Alps more than a dozen times, trying to understand how our forebears saw the land. What did it mean to define your identity by sacred mountains, or actually see th ...Show more
Lunchtime Thoughts of a Gallery Attendant at the End of the World by Vaughan Guson
10.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Poetry / Plays
First Things by Harry Ricketts
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Biography
In First Things, Harry Ricketts chronicles his early life through the lens of ‘firsts’: those moments that can hold their detail and potency across a lifetime. Set mostly in Hong Kong and Oxford, these bright fragments include the places, people, writers, encounters and obsessions that have shaped Ricke ...Show more
Field Guide to New Zealand Native Trees (revised edition) by John Dawson; Rob Lucas
50.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Natural History
A companion volume to the award-winning and monumental 'New Zealand's Native Trees', this field guide is the perfect companion to take into the outdoors. Compact enough to fit in a day-pack, it contains detailed information on all native trees found on the main islands of New Zealand, including Steward ...Show more
His Favourite Graves by Paul Cleave
38.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Fiction
Desperate for reward money - and to rescue his marriage - an embattled sheriff takes incalculable risks to find a missing boy. An edge-of-your-seat, twisted and twisty thriller from New Zealand's King of Crime. Acacia Pines, USA. Sheriff Cohen's life is falling apart - his father accidently burned down ...Show more