Gaylene's Take - Her Life in New Zealand Film by Gaylene Preston
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography
From one of our very best filmmakers comes a memoir of filmmaking in Aotearoa New Zealand. Gaylene Preston has always sought out the stories that have not yet been told, and in this book she reveals the challenges and sometimes heartbreak that have come with that ambition. In both wide lens and close-up ...Show more
New Zealand Chili Handbook by Garry Sommerville
$24.99 NZD
Category: Cooking & Food
This useful handbook provides information about a good range of easy-to-grow chili peppers in New Zealand. Each variety is photographed in colour with information about planting, harvesting and storing, as well as any curative properties found in the plant or the fruit. In addition, the book contains a ...Show more
Wawata - Moon Dreaming by Hinemoa Elder
$30.00 NZD
Category: Culture & Life
Hina, the Maori moon goddess, has 30 different faces to help illuminate life's lessons - a different face and a different energy for each day of the month. And with her changing light, new insights are revealed. This book gives us the chance to connect to the ancient wisdom of the old people, who reach ...Show more
Take-Off! (Flying Furballs) by Donovan Bixley
$24.99 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adults
Inspired by the the adventure annuals of the 50s and 60s, Flying Furballs Take-Off! is a large format full-colour collection of stories and fun facts, comprising: An exciting 25 page full-colour comic (split over 4 sections) - Maps and character bios - How to draw Flying Furballs characters - A look and ...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
Yes, Minister: An Insider's Account of the John Key years by Chris Finlayson
$36.99 NZD
Category: Biography
An insightful and entertaining glimpse into what really made the John Key government one of the most successful conservative governments New Zealand has ever seen.
Little Tales of Hedgehog and Goat by Paula Green
$22.00 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adults
A charming illustrated chapter book for children six years and up about friendship and finding the magic in the everyday. A delightful illustrated novel for children about a goat and a hedgehog who meet in a farm field and become best friends. Goat has a tiny pink shed in a rolling paddock. She likes t ...Show more
Fact or Fake?: the Truth about Science by Alex Woolf
$23.99 NZD
Category: NZ Children | Series: Fact or Fake? Ser.
The Astromancer: The Rising of Matariki (Te Kо̄kо̄rangi: Te Aranga o Matariki English Edition) by Witi Ihimaera; Isobel Joy Te Aho-White
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Children
The Astromancer is looking for four new apprentices to learn about Matariki and the Maramataka calendar. She chooses three boys and an orphan girl, Aria, who will come only if she can bring her smelly dog. Aria, though, is bored by the lessons, and she doesn't want to be told what to do. But these are d ...Show more
Things I remember, or was told by Carol Shand
$40.00 NZD
Category: Medicine
Things I remember, or was told, is the memoir of outspoken Wellington GP Carol Shand, who since the early 1960s has spent her life fighting for change in medical, social and legal issues that she considered important: maternity care, access to contraception, abortion law change, and improved response to ...Show more
I am Autistic: An interactive and informative guide to autism (by someone diagnosed with it) by Chanelle Moriah
$36.99 NZD
Category: Health, Wellbeing, Medicine
An essential guide to understanding autism- for autistic people and their families, friends and workmates. When Chanelle Moriah was diagnosed with autism at 21, life finally began to make sense. Hungry for information, Chanelle looked for a simple resource that could explain what autism is and how it ca ...Show more
The Best of e-Tangata, Volume Two (BWB Texts) by Tapu Misa (ed.); Gary Wilson (ed.)
$17.99 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction | Series: BWB Texts
A thought-provoking set of Maori, Pasifika, and tangata Tiriti writers combine in this celebration of some of the best writing from E-Tangata. Traverse a landscape of contemporary and historical issues through the lens of a mother's loss, a man's hard-won expertise, a homesick student abroad and with th ...Show more