Our Untold Stories: Extraordinary Tales from New Zealand's Past by Tom Clarke
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
Our Untold Stories is a collection of interesting, informative, entertaining, amusing, inspiring, tragic and fascinating stories from New Zealand’s past — stories which have been largely forgotten or were unknown. For more than 40 years, former journalist Tom Clarke has been gathering stories for a Toda ...Show more
Otherhood: Essays On Being Childless, Childfree, and Child Adjacent by Alie Benge; Lil O'Brien; Kathryn van Beek (Editors)
$39.99 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
In Aotearoa the number of people who will never have children is growing — and they’re pushing back against the narrative that if they don’t, their lives will be somehow ‘less than’. Otherhood’s essays are by writers who’ve felt on the outside looking in, who’ve lived unexpected lives and who’ve given ...Show more
A Man Holds a Fish by Glenn Busch
$75.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
HAUNTING PORTRAITS BY ONE OF NEW ZEALAND'S FINEST PHOTOGRAPHERS Selected by the legendary photographer himself, the 79 extraordinary images in Glenn Busch's A Man Holds A Fish cement and celebrate his reputation as one of New Zealand's most important photographers. Almost other-worldy, and striking in t ...Show more
Rewena and Rabbit Stew - The Rural Kitchen in Aotearoa, 1800-1940 by Katie Cooper
$49.99 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
Cookhouses and wharekai, hangi pits and coal ranges, boil-ups and mutton - this book tells the hearty story of sustenance and manaakitanga in rural New Zealand. The rhythms and routines of country life are at the heart of this compelling account of the rural kitchen in Aotearoa. Historian Katie Cooper e ...Show more
Sam the Trap Man by Sam Gibson
$45.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
Sam the Trap Man: Cracking yarns and tall tales from the bush. Sam Gibson, aka Sam the Trap Man, is a bushman through and through: hunting, fishing, trapping and adventuring - he does it all. As an unruly teenager starting to get into mischief Sam's parents and teachers struck an unusual deal, letting h ...Show more
Nowhere Far from the Sea - The Story of New Zealand in Quotations by Steve Barnett
$24.99 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
A compilation of Quotes about New Zealand by the intelligent and the well-known. Sourced from a mix of well-known New Zealanders and famous foreigners, with some people being generous in their kindness while others are biting in their savagery about the country.The arc of quotes map New Zealand's growth ...Show more
When I Open the Shop by romesh dissanayake
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
In his small noodle shop in Te Whanganui-a-Tara, a young chef obsessively juliennes carrots. Nothing is going according to plan: the bills are piling up, his mother is dead, and there are strangers in his kitchen. The ancestors are watching closely. Told through a series of brilliant interludes and jum ...Show more
Missing Persons by Steve Braunias
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
Twelve extraordinary tales of disappearance: a collection of true crime writing by New Zealand's award-winning master of non-fiction. Former journalist Murray Mason, found dead in the Auckland Domain; the mysterious death of Socksay Chansy, found dead in a graveyard by the sea; the tragic disappearance ...Show more
Bookshop Dogs by Ruth Shaw
$39.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
Dogs of all shapes and sizes visit Ruth Shaw's three wee bookshops in Manapouri in the far south of Aotearoa New Zealand. Local dogs, holiday house dogs, travelling dogs: many have great stories, be they funny, sad, strange, bemusing, quirky or sweet. Woven throughout are tales of the very special Hun ...Show more
The Seaweed Forager by Rebecca Gouldhurst
$46.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
Step into the enchanting world of The Seaweed Forager, your guide to the treasures of the coastal shores. Learn to identify, harvest and prepare a myriad of seaweed species found along the stunning coastlines of Aotearoa/New Zealand. Uncover the astonishing nutritional properties of seaweed and the rema ...Show more
The Art of Winning: 10 Lessons in Leadership, Purpose and Potential by Dan Carter
$40.00 NZD
Category: Personal Development
A unique and inspiring deep dive into leadership, strength and resilience from one of sport's true masters: All Black legend Dan Carter. Ten timeless truths on leadership, purpose and potential - from the unique culture of the All Blacks, and the mind of a living legend. You might think success at t ...Show more
Laughing at the Dark by Barbara Else
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography
'My own first memory is the cupboard door, and laughing, erupting with laughter' - a memoir about finding an identity, a voice and laughter. A funny, elegant, moving memoir by one of New Zealand's best-known authors, a woman who finally rebelled against being a handmaiden. By the time Barbara Else was ...Show more