Write It All Down: How to Put Your Life on the Page by Cathy Rentzenbrink
$39.99 NZD
Category: Writing, Language
Why do we want to write and what stops us? How does the urge to express ourselves fight with the terror that no-one will care or that we will get in trouble? How do we identify and overcome everything that gets in our way so we can start making work?Sunday Times bestselling author Cathy Rentzenbrink sho ...Show more
The Bookseller at the End of the World by Ruth Shaw
$38.99 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
A rich, immersive, funny and heartbreaking memoir of the charming bookseller who runs two tiny bookshops in the remote village of Manapouri in Fiordland, in the deep south of New Zealand. Ruth Shaw weaves together stories of the characters who visit her bookshops, musings about her favourite books, and ...Show more
The Jane Austen Remedy by Ruth Wilson
$36.99 NZD
Category: Biography
An uplifting and delightfully bookish memoir about an 89-year-old woman who reclaims her life by re-reading each of Jane Austen's novels.
So Far, For Now by Fiona Kidman
$38.00 NZD
Category: Biography
Evocative, wry and thought-provoking, this is a rewarding journey with one of our finest writers. It is a little over a decade since Fiona Kidman wrote her last volume of memoir. But her story did not end on its last page; instead her life since has been busier than ever, filled with significant changes ...Show more
Bookstores - A Celebration of Independent Booksellers by Horst A. Friedrichs (Photographer); Stuart Husband
$100.00 NZD
Category: Culture & Life
Explore the magic of independent bookstores in this beautiful photographic journey across the world. Bookstores are treasure troves of knowledge and ideas, invaluable for the imagination, and often reflect their owners' personalities in ways internet behemoths could never re-create. In this book, photo ...Show more
My Rock 'n' Roll Friend by Tracey Thorn
$32.99 NZD
Category: Music
In 1983, backstage at the Lyceum in London, Tracey Thorn and Lindy Morrison first met. Tracey's music career was just beginning, while Lindy, drummer for The Go-Betweens, was ten years her senior. They became confidantes, comrades and best friends, a relationship cemented by gossip and feminism, books a ...Show more
Renegades - Born in the USA by Bruce Springsteen; Barack Obama
$80.00 NZD
Category: Culture & Life
Two long-time friends share an intimate and urgent conversation about life, music and their enduring love of America, with all its challenges and contradictions, in this stunningly-produced expansion of their ground-breaking Higher Ground podcast, featuring more than 350 photographs, exclusive bonus con ...Show more
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain (In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading and Life) by George Saunders
$24.99 NZD
Category: Writing, Language
From the New York Times bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo and Tenth of December comes a literary master class on what makes great stories work and what they can tell us about ourselves - and our world today. For the last twenty years, George Saunders has been teaching a c ...Show more
I Ate Sunshine for Breakfast: Plants Around the World(HB) by Michael Holland
$37.99 NZD
Category: Technology, Science, IT
Enter the incredible world of plants to learn about the green machines of the natural world.Using just the rays of the sun, trees and flowers help create everything from rubber to honey. Find out the powerful science going on in every leaf, petal and stem with vibrant illustrations that will make you lo ...Show more
More Rules for Life: A special volume for enthusiasts by Kitty Flanagan
$12.99 NZD
Category: Culture & Life
The world has changed and new rules are required. More Rules for Life is the perfect companion to Kitty Flanagan's bestselling 488 Rules for Life. More Rules for Life is the latest collection from comedian and rule-maker Kitty Flanagan. Following the success of her bestseller, 488 Rules for Life, Kitty ...Show more
The Joy of Gardening by Lynda Hallinan
$45.00 NZD
Category: Sports, Hobbies, Environment
Gardens teach us to live in the moment. They nourish us, provide solace in grief and offer sanctuary from the stresses of modern life. In a celebration of the healing power of nature, New Zealand gardening guru Lynda Hallinan focuses on the gentle delights that bring joy to our backyards, from birdsong ...Show more
Travels with a Writing Brush: Classical Japanese Travel Writing from the Manyoshu to Basho by Meredith McKinney
$30.00 NZD
Category: Writing, Language
Discover a realm of travel writing undreamed of in the West - a richly literary tradition extending through a thousand years and more, whose individual works together weave a dense and beautiful brocade of repeated patterns and motifs, tones and textures. Here are asobi, the wandering performers who pre ...Show more