Always Italicise: How to Write While Colonised by Alice Te Punga Somerville
$25.00 NZD
Category: Ockhams 2022
A first book of poetry from acclaimed Māori writer and scholar Alice Te Punga Somerville. Shrink-wrapped, vacuum-packed, disassembled, sold for parts,butt of jokes, scapegoats, too this for that, too that for this,gravy trains, too angry, special treatment, let it go . . . ‘Always italicise foreign wor ...Show more
Downfall - The Destruction of Charles Mackay by Paul Diamond
$45.00 NZD
Category: 2023 Ockham NZ Book Awards Longlist
1920 New Zealanders were shocked by the news that the brilliant, well-connected mayor of genteel Whanganui had shot a young gay poet, D'Arcy Cresswell, who he thought was blackmailing him. They were then riveted by the trial that followed.Mackay was sentenced to hard labour and later left the country, o ...Show more
Paradise Camp by Yuki Kihara
$90.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non-Fiction
Interdisciplinary artist Yuki Kihara's work interrogates and dismantles gender roles, (mis)representation, and colonial legacies in the Pacific. Kihara is the first Pasifika and first Fa'afafine artist to be presented by New Zealand at the prestigious 59th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di V ...Show more
Nature Boy - The Photography of Olaf Petersen by Catherine Hammond (Editor); Shaun Higgins (Editor); Andrew Clifford (Contribution by); Sandra Coney (Contribution by); Sarah Hillary (Contribution by); Kirstie Ross (Contribution by)
$60.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non-Fiction
A gull chick running across Muriwai Beach. Cabbage trees at Lake Wainamu. Tyre tracks, tugs of war and tramping trips. Olaf Petersen produced an unrivalled photographic account of the people and natural world of Auckland's wild west coast. Nature Boy introduces readers to this remarkable photographer an ...Show more
Chevalier & Gawayn by Phillip Mann
$38.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
Once upon a time in the future, things are looking grim. Plague stalks the land, people live behind city walls, or underground, or huddle in remote hamlets. No more animals, no more birdlife, no more freedom... never has the divide between rich and poor been so evident, never has the Earth been so despo ...Show more
Empire City - Wellington Becomes the Capital of New Zealand by John E Martin
$70.00 NZD
Category: NZ History
Empire City: Wellington Becomes the Capital of New Zealand takes Wellington from the first encounter between Māori and the New Zealand Company in Te Whanganui-a-Tara in 1839 to its becoming the Empire City by the 1870s. It tells the story that began with a small and fragile New Zealand Company Pākehā se ...Show more
Glory by NoViolet Bulawayo
$50.00 NZD
Category: Booker Longlist 2020
An irresistibly original and punchy novel inspired by the fall of Robert Mugabe, from Booker-shortlisted Zimbabwean novelist NoViolet BulawayoGlory is an energy burst, an exhilarating joyride. It is the story of an uprising, told by a bold, vivid chorus of animal voices that helps us see our human world ...Show more
The Trees by Percival Everett
$28.00 NZD
Category: Booker Longlist 2020
The Trees is a page-turner that opens with a series of brutal murders in the rural town of Money, Mississippi. The murders present a puzzle, for at each crime scene there is a second dead body: that of a man who resembles Emmett Till, a young black boy lynched in the same town 65 years before. The detec ...Show more
Treacle Walker by Alan Garner
$25.00 NZD
Category: Booker Longlist 2020
Joe Coppock squints at the world with his lazy eye. He reads his comics, collects birds' eggs and treasures his marbles, particularly his prized dobbers. When Treacle Walker appears off the Cheshire moor one day – a wanderer, a healer – an unlikely friendship is forged and the young boy is introduced to ...Show more
Jumping Sundays - The Rise and Fall of the Counterculture in Aotearoa New Zealand by Nick Bollinger
$50.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non-Fiction
Award-winning writer Nick Bollinger’s deep history of the transformation of New Zealand life wrought by the counterculture in the 1960s and ’70s.On a Sunday afternoon in the spring of 1969, thousands of people defied Auckland city bylaws and came to party in Albert Park. A rock band played on the rotund ...Show more
Treacle Walker H/B by Alan Garner
$25.00 NZD
Category: Booker Longlist 2022
Treacle Walker is a stunning fusion of myth and folklore and an exploration of the fluidity of time, vivid storytelling that brilliantly illuminates an introspective young mind trying to make sense of everything around him. 'Ragbone! Ragbone! Any rags! Pots for rags! Donkey stone!'Joe looked up from his ...Show more
The Trees: A Novel by Percival Everett
$35.90 NZD
Category: Booker Longlist 2022
An uncanny literary thriller addressing the painful legacy of lynching in the US, by the author of Telephone Percival Everett's The Trees is a page-turner that opens with a series of brutal murders in the rural town of Money, Mississippi. When a pair of detectives from the Mississippi Bureau of Invest ...Show more