Maori Tribes of New Zealand by Te Ara
$29.99 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
A guide to the main Maori tribes written especially for visitors and students, combining great photos of scenic New Zealand with maps, Maori art and history. Written by New Zealand's top Maori historians, this is a perfect compact guidebook to the tribes of New Zealand.
A Short History of the New Zealand Wars by Gordon McLauchlan
$29.99 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
Following the ongoing success of A Short History of New Zealand, Great Tales of New Zealand History and Great Tales of Rural New Zealand - all reprinted and still going strong - Gordon McLauchlan has turned his masterful storytelling skills to one of the most important periods in this country's history. ...Show more
A Short History of New Zealand by Gordon McLauchlan
$29.99 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
A new edition of the bestselling short history on New Zealand, updated to include the Helen Clark years, the rise of John Key, the Christchurch earthquakes and the 2011 Rugby World Cup! A lively and accessible history written by one of our most well-known commentators on matters past and present. Succin ...Show more
Ambition: What New Zealanders Think and Why it Matters by Julie Fry & Hayden Glass
$28.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
Many commentators say New Zealanders lack ambition, and that aspects of the New Zealandcharacter or our comfortable lives limit our achievements. We are said to be too keen on time off, too concerned about everyone fitting in, suspicious of people who try too hard, enthusiastic about humility, afraid of ...Show more
Specimen - Personal Essays by Madison Hamill
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
A father rollerblading to church in his ministerial robes, a university student in a leotard sprinting through fog, a trespass notice from Pak'nSave, a beautiful unborn goat in a jar . . . In scenarios ranging from the mundane to the surreal, Madison Hamill looks back at her younger selves with a sharp ...Show more
Maori Made Easy Workbook 4/Kete 4 by Scotty Morrison
$25.00 NZD
Category: Te Reo
The accessible guide to learning the Maori language, no matter your knowledge level. Fun, user-friendly and relevant to modern readers, Scotty Morrison's Maori Made Easy workbook series is the ultimate resource for anyone wanting to learn the basics of the Maori language. While dictionaries list words a ...Show more
Sky High: Jean Batten's Incredible Flying Adventures by David Hill; Phoebe Morris
$25.00 NZD
Category: Picture Books, Early Learning | Series: David Hill's Kiwi Legends
The little plane has been flying across the sea for eight hours. Huge black clouds surround it. Rain pours in. Wind slams. The aircraft is tossed around like a leaf. The pilot stares into the darkness. How much fuel is left? Is she flying in the right direction? How long till she reaches land? In 1934, ...Show more
First to the Top: Sir Edmund Hillary's Amazing Everest Adventure by David Hill; Phoebe Morris
$25.00 NZD
Category: Picture Books, Early Learning | Series: David Hill's Kiwi Legends
Up on the world's highest mountain, the sky is tinged the black color of space and the air is almost too thin to breathe. How did Ed, a small, shy boy from a tiny New Zealand town, grow up to become the world's most famous mountaineer and adventurer? How did he climb Everest and do many other astonishin ...Show more
Raumati: My Summer Words - Ngā Kupu Māori mō te Raumati by Chris Dale; Ngaere Roberts
$25.00 NZD
Category: Te Reo
The smell, sound, taste, feel and sights of summer are featured in a delicious list of adjectives in both Maori and English - designed to extend vocabulary and encourage a love of language. See the sky, wide and windy. Titiro ki te rangi whānui, rangi hauhau. Hear the surf, ...Show more
Life On Volcanoes by Janet McAllister (ed.)
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
This showcase of five lively, smart, thoughtful writers promises to be a valuable and very readable contribution to New Zealand's cultural, social and political discourse - housed within a small, covetable, high quality hard-cover book complete with colour illustrations. The contributors are Tze Ming Mo ...Show more
Lonely Asian Woman by Sharon Lam
$27.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
In the shallows of the internet Paula is pushed to a moment of profound realisation: she, too, is but a lonely Asian woman looking for fun. Lonely Asian Woman is a wildly sentimental book about a life populated by doubles and transient friends, whirrs of off-kilter bathroom fans and divinatory whiffs of ...Show more
Credit in the Straight World by Brannavan Gnanalingam
$27.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
Wellington author Brannavan Gnanalingam charts the fortunes of a fictitious finance company - Manchester Gold - in a fictitious Cantabrian town, Manchester, in his third novel, Credit in the Straight World. The novel charts the fortunes of Frank Tolland as he casts off an ignoble birth to become the sin ...Show more