All This by Chance by Vincent O'Sullivan
$31.50 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
If we don't have the past in mind, it is merely history. If we do, it is still part of the present. Esther's grandparents first meet at a church dance in London in 1947. Stephen, a shy young Kiwi, has left to practise pharmacy on the other side of the world. Eva has grown up English, with no memory of t ...Show more
All of Us by Adrienne Jansen & Carina Gallegos
$22.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
In All of Us, established New Zealand author Adrienne Jansen and exciting new writer Carina Gallegos use poems and short prose to weave together the vibrant, expansive, and sometimes heart-wrenching stories of immigrants and people from refugee background in New Zealand today. Drawing on their time spe ...Show more
Are Friends Electric? by Helen Heath
$22.50 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
Are Friends Electric? offers a vivid and moving vision of a past, present and future mediated by technology. The first part of Helen Heath's bold new collection is comprised largely of found poems which emerge from conversations about sex bots, people who feel an intimate love for bridges, fences and bu ...Show more
Aspiring Daybook: The Diary of Elsie Winslow by Annabel Wilson
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
In Aspiring Daybook, poet Annabel Wilson tells of a year in the life Elsie Winslow, who has just returned from Europe to Wanaka to take care of her terminally ill brother and finds herself thinking about love in ways she didn't expect. Like the mountains that surround her and the lake that greets her ev ...Show more
Birdstories: A History of the Birds of New Zealand by Geoff Norman
$59.99 NZD
Category: Illustrated Non-Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A fascinating, in-depth account of New Zealand's birds, which spans their discovery, their place in both Pakeha and Maori worlds, their survival and conservation, and the illustrations and art they have inspired. In 1872, the first instalments of Walter Buller's A History of the Birds of New Zealand ap ...Show more
Caroline's Bikini by Kirsty Gunn
$45.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
A gin-fueled love story with one part One Day mixed with one part Zadie Smith and a splash of Ali Smith. Included in the Guardian's "Top Ten books about unrequited love" "Alright" I said, "I'll try..." This is how Emily Stuart opens her intricate tale of a classic love affair that becomes Caroli ...Show more
Dear Oliver by Peter Wells
$39.99 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction | Reading Level: very good
When writer and historian Peter Wells found a cache of family letters amongst his elderly mother's effects, he realised that he had the means of retracing the history of a not-untypical family swept out to New Zealand during the great nineteenth-century human diaspora from Britain. His family experience ...Show more
Down The Bay: A Natural and Cultural History of Abel Tasman National Park by Philip Simpson
$79.99 NZD
Category: Illustrated Non-Fiction
Abel Tasman National Park was a war-time baby, born in 1942 to protect the wonderful sequence of forested beaches and headlands, and which have become much-loved by both countless New Zealanders and visitors alike. Down the Bay is a tribute to this gem of New Zealand's national park system. Philip Simps ...Show more
Edgeland and Other Poems by David Eggleton
$27.50 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
The poetry in David Eggletons new collection "possesses an intensity and driven energy, using the poets recognisable signature oratory voice, strong in beat and measure, rooted in rich traditions of chant, lament and ode.Mashing together the lyrical and the slangy, celebrating local vernaculars whilesim ...Show more
Fight for the Forests: The Pivotal Campaigns That Saved New Zealand's Native Forests by Paul Bensemann
$69.99 NZD
Category: Illustrated Non-Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
The remarkable and inspring story of how New Zealand's native forests were saved between 1960 and 2000. The greatest success stories of the modern environmental movement in New Zealand were the public campaigns to save our native forests, beginning in the 1960s with the battle to stop Lake Manapouri be ...Show more
Filming the Colonial Past - The New Zealand Wars on Screen by Annabel Cooper
$49.99 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
The New Zealand Wars were defining events in the nation's history. Filming the Colonial Past, an engaging new book from Annabel Cooper, tells a story of filmmakers' fascination with these conflicts over the past 90 years.From silent screen to smartphone, and from Pakeha adventurers to young Maori songwr ...Show more
Galleries of Maoriland: Artists, Collectors and the Māori world, 1880-1910 by Blackley Roger
$75.00 NZD
Category: Illustrated Non-Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Galleries of Maoriland introduces us to the many ways in which European colonists to New Zealand (called Pakeha by the indigenous Maori) discovered, created, propagated and romanticised the Maori world at the turn of the century summed up in a popular nickname describing New Zealand; Maoriland. It could ...Show more