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
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
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
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
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
Maui Street (Māui Street) (BWB Texts) by Morgan Godfery
$14.99 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
Everyone lives a messy, unusual life. There is no normal. The sooner our politics understands this, the better off we will all be.' Morgan Godfery is one of New Zealands most energising young thinkers. In just a few years he has become a leading voice in the countrýs social and political life. Starting ...Show more
High Wire (Korero Series) by Lloyd Jones; Euan Macleod
$45.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction | Series: Korero Series 1
High Wire brings together Booker finalist writer Lloyd Jones and artist Euan Macleod. It is the first of a series of picture books written and made for grownups and designed to showcase leading New Zealand writers and artists working together in a collaborative and dynamic way. In High Wire the narrator ...Show more