Pike River: The Crime and Cover Up
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
On November 19, 2010, an explosion rocked the underground Pike River mine in New Zealand. After a second explosion five days later, the 29 workers underground were declared dead. This was not a random accident: it was a crime caused by capitalism. Despite overwhelming evidence that Pike River Coal’s man ...Show more
Gaylene's Take - Her Life in New Zealand Film by Gaylene Preston
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography
From one of our very best filmmakers comes a memoir of filmmaking in Aotearoa New Zealand. Gaylene Preston has always sought out the stories that have not yet been told, and in this book she reveals the challenges and sometimes heartbreak that have come with that ambition. In both wide lens and close-up ...Show more
New Zealand Chili Handbook by Garry Sommerville
$24.99 NZD
Category: Cooking & Food
This useful handbook provides information about a good range of easy-to-grow chili peppers in New Zealand. Each variety is photographed in colour with information about planting, harvesting and storing, as well as any curative properties found in the plant or the fruit. In addition, the book contains a ...Show more
Wawata - Moon Dreaming by Hinemoa Elder
$30.00 NZD
Category: Culture & Life
Hina, the Maori moon goddess, has 30 different faces to help illuminate life's lessons - a different face and a different energy for each day of the month. And with her changing light, new insights are revealed. This book gives us the chance to connect to the ancient wisdom of the old people, who reach ...Show more
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (#5 Illustrated Edition HB) by J.K. Rowling
$84.99 NZD
Category: NZ Children | Series: Harry Potter
The Sunday Times bestselling Illustrated Edition of J.K. Rowling's fifth Harry Potter adventure, brilliantly evoked in full colour by Kate Greenaway medal winner Jim Kay, and acclaimed guest artist Neil Packer.As the Order of the Phoenix keeps watch over Harry Potter, troubled times have come to ...Show more
Yes, Minister: An Insider's Account of the John Key years by Chris Finlayson
$36.99 NZD
Category: Biography
An insightful and entertaining glimpse into what really made the John Key government one of the most successful conservative governments New Zealand has ever seen.
Fact or Fake?: the Truth about Science by Alex Woolf
$23.99 NZD
Category: NZ Children | Series: Fact or Fake? Ser.
Things I remember, or was told by Carol Shand
$40.00 NZD
Category: Medicine
Things I remember, or was told, is the memoir of outspoken Wellington GP Carol Shand, who since the early 1960s has spent her life fighting for change in medical, social and legal issues that she considered important: maternity care, access to contraception, abortion law change, and improved response to ...Show more
I am Autistic: An interactive and informative guide to autism (by someone diagnosed with it) by Chanelle Moriah
$36.99 NZD
Category: Health, Wellbeing, Medicine
An essential guide to understanding autism- for autistic people and their families, friends and workmates. When Chanelle Moriah was diagnosed with autism at 21, life finally began to make sense. Hungry for information, Chanelle looked for a simple resource that could explain what autism is and how it ca ...Show more
How My Koro Became a Star (Kua Whetūrangitia a Koro Te Reo Pākēha Edition PB) by Brianne Te Paa
$22.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
A young boy learns about the customs around celebrating Matariki from his grandfather. They watch the stars from the top of a mountain, prepare their offering of food for the gods, and the boy learns about Te Waka o Rangi and the tradition of calling out the names of loved ones who have passed away so t ...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
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