The Maori Picture Dictionary: Te Papakupu Whakaahua by Isobel Joy Te Aho-White
$30.00 NZD
Category: Te Reo | Series: 1st
This comprehensive picture dictionary contains illustrations for over 1400 of the most common words used in daily life. Wonderfully illustrated by two up-and-coming Māori artists, The Māori Picture Dictionary / Te Papakupu Whakaahua has a sense of fun that makes it easy to use. Many words are clarified ...Show more
Kainga - People, Land and Belonging (BWB Texts) by Paul Tapsell
$17.99 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction | Series: BWB Texts
Is New Zealand ready to not just tick the Treaty partnership box, but actually open it and accept that Māori community-driven world views concerning their whenua is equally valid science, capable of underpinning, guiding and reshaping agricultural science and farming practices? This book calls for poli ...Show more
Mine by James Russell
$22.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
"Taking in the mesmerising vision before me, I raised my arms towards the ocean like an idiot king acknowledging his subjects. My own surfing realm. Every single wave that broke on this reef was mine.”Twenty-six-year-old Jimmy Brennan’s life has taken a turn for the worse, and he’s desperate to numb the ...Show more
Nine Lives - New Zealand Writers on Notable New Zealanders
$39.99 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
A selected group of NZ writers have chosen a favourite New Zealander to write an essay on. These pieces are personal, illuminating and often moving. Around 5,000 words per essay, the writers had full choice on who to write about and what approach to take, so there is great variety in the styles. Writers ...Show more
After the Tampa - From Afghanistan to New Zealand by Abbas Nazari
$38.99 NZD
Category: Biography
The heart-rending story of a seven-year-old 'Tampa' refugee who grew up to become a Fulbright scholar, highlighting the plight and potential of refugees everywhere. Escaping from Taliban persecution in Afghanistan, Abbas Nazari's parents fled the country in 2001 to find a safe place in which to bring up ...Show more
Steve Hansen: The Legacy by Gregor Paul
$49.99 NZD
Category: Sports, Hobbies, Environment
The making of a New Zealand coaching great Between the years 2012 and 2019, Sir Steve Hansen oversaw an era of such remarkable success that it would be almost impossible to repeat. His 15-year career in the All Blacks coaching team is the heaviest footprint in rugby history. Of the 210 tests he was invo ...Show more
Brasswitch and Bot (#1 The Rise of the Remarkables) by Gareth Ward
$22.99 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adults | Series: The Rise of the Remarkables
Drawn into a world of prejudice, deceit and danger, Wrench must master her powers, knowing they offer her only hope for survival . . . if they don't destroy the world first. Screams surge along York's narrow Victorian streets as a run-away crackle-tram races toward disaster. Fearing an accident like th ...Show more
Things I Learned at Art School by Megan Dunn
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
From the writer who brought you Tinderbox, a book about a woman trying to write a book, comes Things I Learned at Art School, a memoir by a woman who has never kept a diary. Until now. Part memoir, part essay collection, Megan Dunn’s ingenious, moving, hilariously personal Things I Learned at Art Schoo ...Show more
Where We Swim by Ingrid Horrocks
$35.00 NZD
Category: Biography
‘I’d wanted to remember why it was we swam in the first place – to remember the pleasure of immersing in an element other than air.’ Ingrid Horrocks had few aspirations to swimming mastery, but she had always loved being in the water. She set out on a solo swimming journey, then abandoned it for a diffe ...Show more
Two Shakes of a Lamb's Tail: The Diary of a Country Vet by Danielle Hawkins
$37.99 NZD
Category: Biography
Two Shakes of a Lamb's Tail is the funny, illuminating diary of a year in the life of a New Zealand farm vet. With a husband and two children, 1200 sheep and 400 cattle, farm dogs and pet lambs, pigs bent on excavation and a goat bent on escape, country life is never dull. From calving cows to constipa ...Show more
Auē (Aue) by Becky Manawatu
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
Taukiri was born into sorrow. Auē can be heard in the sound of the sea he loves and hates, and in the music he draws out of the guitar that was his father’s. It spills out of the gang violence that killed his father and sent his mother into hiding, and the shame he feels about abandoning his eight-year- ...Show more
Her Say - Survivors of Domestic Abuse Tell Their Own Stories by Jackie Clark and the Aunties
$38.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
In 2012, Jackie Clark launched The Aunties, a grassroots charity helping women to rebuild their lives after a period of trauma. She quit her job, turning her back on her comfortable life, to focus on The Aunties full-time, becoming Aunty in Charge and assisting hundreds of women with material needs and ...Show more