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Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2022 by Tracey Slaughter (ed.)
$37.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poets | Series: Poetry New Zealand Yearbook
An essential, annual collection of terrific new New Zealand poetry Each year Poetry New Zealand, this country's longest-running poetry magazine (established in 1951 by Louis Johnson), rounds up important new poetry, reviews and essays, making it the ideal way to catch up with the latest poetry from both ...Show more
Poetry of the First World War by Marcus Clapham (Ed.)
$20.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's Library are books to lo ...Show more
Powell's Native Animals of New Zealand by Brian Gill (ed)
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fauna
The 4th edition of this classic work, first published in 1947. It provides a simple ready reference for identifying common New Zealand animals, ranging from the simplest invertebrates through to mammals. The text has been updated and Powell's illustrations have been rescanned from the originals, resulti ...Show more
Shakespeare and Company, Paris: A History of the Rag & Bone Shop of the Heart by Krista Halverson ed.
$65.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
A copiously illustrated history of the famed Rive Gauche Paris bookstore Shakespeare and Company, home to a literary circle of avant-garde Americans in Paris -- including Beat Generation writers Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, and William S. Burroughs This first-ever history of the legendary bohemian boo ...Show more
Shakespeare's Tropes: A chronological companion to the canon by David Lawrence [Salesi Le'ota (ed)]
$49.00 NZD
Category: Reference
Shakespeare’s Tropes is a new book by one of New Zealand’s leading directors and teachers of Shakespeare. Part-textbook, part-episode guide, it covers 41 plays from The Taming of the Shrew in 1589 through to Cardenio in 1613, charting Shakespeare’s narrative development of his recurring themes and motif ...Show more
Sound Bites by Ed Le Brocq
$40.00 NZD
Category: Music
Ed Le Brocq invites you to come on a journey with him through a living tradition that spans a millennium - the tradition of Western classical music. Have you ever wondered where our music comes from? How did we arrive here, a place where we can have a hundred musicians on stage playing the wildest rhyt ...Show more
Spinning a Line: NZ Writing About Fishing by Owen Marshall (ed.)
$30.00 NZD
Category: Fishing
The story goes that Maui hooked the North Island out of the sea from his waka, the South Island, so it is little surprise that fishing is much loved in New Zealand. Its appeal, though, is personal and the experiences it has engendered are as various as they are fascinating. Owen Marshall has netted a ca ...Show more
Te Kai a te Rangatira - Leadership from the Maori World by Rawiri Tapiata (ed.); Renee Smith (ed.); Marcus Akuhata-Brown (ed.)
$80.00 NZD
Category: Te ao Māori
‘Awe-inspiring collective wisdom and a snapshot into the current state of Maori leadership’ – this extraordinary book of interviews and photographs enriches our understanding of what it means to be a leader. In 2017 a group of rangatahi came together with the kaupapa of making a contribution to their co ...Show more
The Amazing World of James Hector by Simon Nathan (ed)
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ History
James Hector was astounding. Scottish-born and trained as a surgeon, at 23 he took part in a daring British expedition to survey western Canada, and was given up for dead at a place still known - on account of his accident - as Kicking Horse Pass. Fortunately, he survived. Then head-hunted to carry out ...Show more
The Best American Poetry 2022 by Matthew Zapruder (ed.)
$38.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: The\Best American Poetry Ser.
Matthew Zapruder picks the poems for the 2022 edition of The Best American Poetry, "a 'best' anthology that really lives up to its title" (Chicago Tribune).Since 1988, The Best American Poetry series has been "one of the mainstays of the poetry publication world" (Academy of American Poets). Each volume ...Show more
The Compulsive Spike Milligan by Spike Milligan (ed Norma Farnes)
$38.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
This second superb collected work of one of Britain's best-loved comedians is an excellent companion to the sensational original, The Essential Spike Milligan. Spanning his 50-year career and incorporating a rich and varied range of material, this second anthology is as unmissable as the first. When Spi ...Show more
The Moon Is a Ball: Stories of Panda and Squirrel by Ed Franck, David Colmer (Translator)
$30.00 NZD
Category: Children's
Philosophical, wise, funny, true-to-child and wonderfully illustrated stories about an unbreakable friendship between a panda and a squirrel, from two world greats of children's literature. Panda and Squirrel can't live without each other and do everything together: lie on the rocks to look at the moon ...Show more