Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton
$38.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
Birnam Wood is on the move… A landslide has closed the Korowai Pass in New Zealand’s South Island, cutting off the town of Thorndike, leaving a sizable farm abandoned. The disaster presents an opportunity for Birnam Wood, a guerrilla gardening collective that plants crops wherever no one will notice. Bu ...Show more
Twinkle Twinkle Matariki by Rebecca Larsen
$21.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
Pukeko, Kiwi and Hoiho want to fly very high. Join them as they blast off to explore the nine stars of Matariki.
The Singing Stone by Gary Venn
$24.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
It looks ordinary enough - just a smooth, red stone that Miles finds buried in gravel by the river. Until the singing starts. And then the stone begins to glow . . . Miles is impatient to explore his new surroundings after his parents buy a motor camp on the Coromandel Peninsula. But the unsettling disc ...Show more
Rules of Summer by Shaun Tan
$19.99 NZD
Category: NZ Children
Never be late for a parade.Never forget the password.Never ruin a perfect plan. It's all about the rules. But what if the rules feel completely arbitrary? What if your older brother is the only one who gets to make them up all summer long? And what if he's the only one who can save you when the dark ...Show more
The Drinking Game: How big business, the media and politicians shape the way you drink by Guyon Espiner
$36.99 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
An incisive analysis of how our drinking culture is influenced by the government, media and big business, by investigative journalist Guyon Espiner. Ever wondered why it always seems like a good time for a drink? Four years ago, investigative journalist Guyon Espiner gave up drinking alcohol. He had be ...Show more
How to Escape from Prison by Paul Wood
$26.49 NZD
Category: Biography
As an 18-year-old, Dr Paul Wood was completely off the rails. He wasn't coping with the impending death of his mother, he was dependent on drugs, and was an unemployed high-school dropout committing crimes to feed his habit. Two days after his mother died he lost control when his then drug dealer attemp ...Show more
Tiaki: A Shout-out to Aotearoa's Lesser-known Creatures by Jean Donaldson
$29.99 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
This book is a shout-out to the weird and wonderful endangered species in Aotearoa, those lesser-known creatures that don't regularly make the news. But they are just as important as the 'stars' like kakapo and kiwi, for they are the foundation of our unique biodiversity. 'Tiaki' includes such exotic an ...Show more
Ki Te Moe Aotearoa by Donovan Bixley
$19.99 NZD
Category: Te Reo
Donovan Bixley gives parents the perfect off-to-sleep book for their little ones, with an engaging story of bedtime for all the animals around New Zealand being put to bed by their parents. His bright artwork gives a vibrant look to the cute and cuddly baby animals settling down to sleep.
The Great Kiwi Bedtime Book by Donovan Bixley
$19.99 NZD
Category: NZ Children
Donovan Bixley gives parents the perfect off-to-sleep book for their little ones, with an engaging story of bedtime for all the animals around New Zealand being put to bed by their parents. His bright artwork gives a vibrant look to the cute and cuddly baby animals settling down to sleep.
Kawai: For Such a Time As This by Monty Soutar
$39.99 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
Tauhou by Kotuku Titihuia Nuttall
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
An inventive exploration of Indigenous families, womanhood, and alternate post-colonial realities by a writer of Māori and Coast Salish descent. Dear grandmother, I am writing this song for you. I am a stranger in this place, he tauhou ahau, reintroducing myself to your land. Tauhou envisions a shared ...Show more
Pounamu Pounamu by Witi Ihimaera
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
Pounamu Pounamu is classic Ihimaera and also classic New Zealand literature. First published in 1972, it was Witi's first book, which as he says in the new introduction 'fulfilled a childhood vow- to write about Maori using his own self and home place'. The vivid stories in this collection not only expl ...Show more