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Going by Train - The Complete New Zealand Railways Story by Graham Hutchins
$60.00 NZD
Category: Transport
Railways played a pivotal part in the development of New Zealand's economy, towns and cities, and helped shape a distinctive culture. This is a comprehensive account of our railways story, from the earliest days of the colony, through rail's growth and golden days, slow decline and recent resurgence. Go ...Show more
Stories from our Back Roads The South Island by Ray Stone
$50.00 NZD
Category: Pukapuka Aotearoa
This book is for people who enjoy driving and exploring the stories of our back roads, but most of all it is for people who love New Zealand, whether they choose to do it from behind the wheel of their SUV or the comfort of their sofa. Stories from our Backroads: South lsland will introduce you to some ...Show more
The Swimmers by Chloe Lane
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
Erin's mother has motor neurone disease and has decided to take her fate into her own hands. As Erin looks back at her twenty-six-year-old self, she can finally tell the story of the unimaginable task she faced one winter. 'Chloe Lane's The Swimmers is by turns touching, resonate, fiercely candid, an ...Show more
Gottfried Lindauer's New Zealand: The Maori Portraits (Paperback Edition) by Ngahiraka Mason and Zara Stanhope (editors)
$60.00 NZD
Category: Pukapuka Aotearoa
An exquisite piece of art publishing that showcases Bohemian artist Gottfried Lindauer’s New Zealand in 75 plates and detailed contextual essays. From the 1870s to the early twentieth century, the Bohemian immigrant artist Gottfried Lindauer travelled to marae and rural towns around New Zealand and – c ...Show more
Aspiring by Damien Wilkins
$23.00 NZD
Category: Young Adult
An engaging, funny and moving novel about a boy trying to make sense of it all. Fifteen-year-old Ricky lives in Aspiring, a town that’s growing at an alarming rate. Ricky’s growing, too — 6’7”, and taller every day. But he’s stuck in a loop: student, uncommitted basketballer, and puzzled son, burdened b ...Show more
Sixteen Days in Sikkim - Things to Do While Walking Downhill by Antony B. Shadbolt
$20.00 NZD
Category: Travel
New Zealand's Native Trees (revised edition) by JOHN DAWSON ET AL
$130.00 NZD
Category: NZ Flora
New Zealand's Native Trees is a landmark book, the kind that is published only once in a generation. It celebrates our unique and magnificent native forests, and describes and generously illustrates more than 320 species, subspecies and varieties. This edition has been completely brought up-to-date with ...Show more
Tohora: The Southern Right Whale (PB) by Ned Barraud
$20.00 NZD
Category: Animals
Once, the mighty tohora, or southern right whale, was a common sight in winter off the coast of Aotearoa. But it proved to be an easy target for the 19th-century whalers, and was soon driven to the edge of extinction. In the 20th century, however, it became a protected species, and once commercial whali ...Show more
Dog Zen: Everything You Need to Know to Transform Your Dog by Mark Vette
$45.00 NZD
Category: Dogs
World-renowned dog behaviourist and psychologist Mark Vette (of Driving Dogs and Flying Dogs fame) shows you how to transform your dog and create a harmonious life-long bond. This book looks at how the dog evolved from the wolf, and the ancient co-evolved bond that exists between humans and dogs, before ...Show more
New Zealanders: The Field Guide by Tom Sainsbury
$37.00 NZD
Category: Pukapuka Aotearoa
A revealing guide to the weird and wonderful inhabitants of New Zealand... and the places you'll find them. After years of mimicking various celebrities and stereotypes on his social media platforms, comedian Tom Sainsbury has now compiled his favourite New Zealand personalities into a book. This array ...Show more
How Did I Get Here? Soliloquies Of Youth by Ben Brown (edited by)
$25.00 NZD
Category: Pukapuka Aotearoa
There are times when the right to remain silent and the need to say something exist in the same moment. I would suppose a choice is made at such a time as to whether guilt is a matter of fact or a matter of conscience. A youthful mind forged in a crucible of fear might argue, ‘Yeah I did it, but that do ...Show more
Is It Bedtime Yet? Parenting ... the Hilarious, the Hair-raising, the Heart-breaking by Emily Writes
$35.00 NZD
Category: Parenting
A collection of writings on being a parent in Aotearoa - from hilarious to heart-breaking. The experience of parenthood is different for everyone. And every day can be different too. Read a hilarious and moving collection of perspectives from the well-loved Emily Writes and her friends. Some of them ar ...Show more