Secrets of the Sea: The Story of New Zealand's Native Sea Creatures by Robert Vennell
$55.00 NZD
Category: Rivers & Oceans
An illuminating tour through the native sea creatures of Aotearoa, by the bestselling author of The Meaning of Trees. Secrets of the Sea is a fascinating introduction to New Zealand's fish and shellfish, weaving together history, biology and culture to reveal how these unique and intriguing creatures ha ...Show more
The Road to Gondwana - In search of the lost supercontinent by Bill Morris
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ History
The Road to Gondwana traces the steps science took to find Gondwana, and the journey Gondwana itself took through 500 million years of Earth history. The road to Gondwana took western science many hundreds of years to travel. And like Scott's epic haul across the ice of Antarctica, it was a journey jagg ...Show more
The Axeman's Carnival by Catherine Chidgey
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
Everywhere, the birds: sparrows and skylarks and thrushes, starlings and bellbirds, fantails and pipits – but above them all and louder, the magpies. We are here and this is our tree and we’re staying and it is ours and you need to leave and now. Tama is just a helpless chick when he is rescued by Mar ...Show more
Thief, Convict, Pirate, Wife - The Many Histories of Charlotte Badger by Jennifer Ashton
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non-Fiction
Thief, Convict, Pirate, Wife: Unravelling the many mysteries surrounding one of the first Pakeha women residents in New Zealand.This is a story of doubt. It is a story of people who left little trace. . . . There are no writings to pore over; no monuments to gaze at; no perfectly preserved homes to visi ...Show more
You Probably Think This Song Is About You by Kate Camp
$35.00 NZD
Category: Essays
In these disarming true stories, Kate Camp moves back and forth through the smoke-filled rooms of her life: from a nostalgic childhood of the Seventies and Eighties, through the boozy pothead years of the Nineties, and into the sobering reality of a world in which Hillary Clinton did not win. ‘Never apo ...Show more
The English Text of the Treaty of Waitangi by Ned Fletcher
$70.00 NZD
Category: Education & Learning
How was the English text of the Treaty of Waitangi understood by the British in 1840? That is the question addressed by historian and lawyer Ned Fletcher, in this extensive work. With one exception, the Treaty sheets signed by rangatira and British officials were in te reo Maori. The Maori text, Te Tiri ...Show more
Kawai: For Such a Time As This by Monty Soutar
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
This epic historical adventure tells the story of pre-colonial Aotearoa New Zealand like it's never been told before. A young Māori man, compelled to learn the stories of his ancestors, returns to his family marae on the east coast of the North Island to speak to his elderly grand-uncle, the keeper of t ...Show more
Democracy in Aotearoa New Zealand: A Survival Guide by Geoffrey Palmer; Gwen Palmer Steeds
$40.00 NZD
Category: Politics
A survival guide to democracy in Aotearoa New Zealand, this book aims to unravel the mysteries of our political system and show how ordinary people can navigate the political world and influence decisions made by our government. Its 40 chapters include a succinct history of government in Aotearoa New Ze ...Show more
Home Theatre by Anthony Lapwood
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
Welcome to the Repertory Apartments—where scenes of tenderness and trouble, music and magic, the uncanny and the macabre play out on intimate stages. A mother and her young son battle an infestation of ants. A bass player is beset by equine hallucinations. A widow seeks a new home with a spare room for ...Show more
So Far, For Now by Fiona Kidman
$38.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
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
Mrs Jewell and the Wreck of the General Grant by Cristina Sanders
$37.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
It’s 1866 and the three-masted sailing ship General Grant is on the southern route from Melbourne to London, with gold from the diggings secreted in returning miners’ hems and pockets. In the fog and the dark, the ship strikes the cliffs of the Auckland Islands, is sucked into a cave and wrecked. Only f ...Show more
Booth by Karen Joy Fowler
$37.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
From the Booker-shortlisted, million-copy bestselling author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves comes an epic novel about the infamous, ill-fated Booth family. Charmers, liars, drinkers and dreamers, they will change history forever. Junius is the patriarch, a celebrated Shakespearean actor who f ...Show more