Hillary's Antarctica - Adventure, exploration and establishing Scott Base by Nigel Watson
$49.99 NZD
Category: Illustrated Non-Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
Beautifully illustrated with Jane Ussher's photographs of the hut restoration in Antarctica, plus historic images and never-before-seen ephemera and diary entries, this is a treasure. Sir Edmund and New Zealand were supposed to be a support act to the British Commonwealth Antarctic crossing party. By he ...Show more
Hudson & Halls - The food of love by Drayton Joanne
$49.95 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Hudson & Halls: The food of love is more than just a love story, though a love story it certainly is. It is a tale of two television chefs who helped change the bedrock bad attitudes of a nation in the 1970s and 80s to that unspoken thing - homosexuality. Peter Hudson and David Halls became reluctan ...Show more
Mataatua Wharenui: Te Whare I Hoki Mai by Hirini Moko Mead
$50.00 NZD
Category: Illustrated Non-Fiction
Mataatua wharenui is the most travelled Maori meeting house in the country. Built in 1875, it was taken to Australia, London and Otago before being returned to Whakatane after more than a century away. The story of Mataatua is part of the story of the desecration of Ngati Awa by the Crown and the fight ...Show more
Mazarine by Charlotte Grimshaw
$38.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
From award-winning author Charlotte Grimshaw, this is a beautifully evocative, sensual portrayal of a woman's search for freedom and love. When her daughter vanishes during a heatwave in Europe, writer Frances Sinclair embarks on a hunt that takes her across continents and into her own past. What clues ...Show more
Memory Pieces by Maurice Gee
$35.00 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction
Memory Pieces is an intimate and evocative memoir in three parts. `Double Unit' tells the story of Maurice Gee's parents - Lyndahl Chapple Gee, a talented writer who for reasons that become clear never went on with a writing career, and Len Gee, a boxer, builder, and man's man. `Blind Road' is Gee's sto ...Show more
Poukahangatus by Tayi Tibble
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
'This collection speaks about beauty, activism, power and popular culture with compelling guile, a darkness, a deep understanding and sensuality. It dives through noir, whakamā and kitsch and emerges dripping with colour and liquor. There’s whakapapa, funk (in all its connotations) and fetishisation. Th ...Show more
Song for Rosaleen by Desmond Pip
$29.99 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A beautifully crafted memoir of a family coping with their mother's dementia, Song for Rosaleen is both a celebration of Rosaleen Desmond's life and an unflinching account of the practical and ethical dilemmas that faced her six children. Told with love, insight, humour and compassion, it raises importa ...Show more
Swim: A Year of Swimming Outdoors in New Zealand by Annette Lees
$39.99 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
This is a book about New Zealanders and their deep connection to swimming in the outdoors. Every neighbourhood has its swimming hole up the river, its local beach, or a back road to the lake. A love of swimming is one of the things that defines Kiwis, and all over the country the start of summer is mark ...Show more
Tatau: A History of Samoan Tattooing by Sean Mallon & Sebastien Galliot
$75.00 NZD
Category: Illustrated Non-Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The Sāmoan Islands are virtually unique in that tattooing has been continuously practised with indigenous techniques: the design of the full male tattoo, the pe'a, has evolved in subtle ways since the nineteenth century, but remains as elaborate, meaningful and powerful as it ever was. This richly illus ...Show more
The Cage by Lloyd Jones
$37.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
Two mysterious strangers appear at a hotel in a small country town. Where have they come from? Who are they? What catastrophe are they fleeing? The townspeople want answers, but the strangers are unable to speak of their trauma. And before long, wary hospitality shifts to suspicion and fear, and the car ...Show more
The Farewell Tourist by Alison Glenny
$27.50 NZD
Category: Poetry
Pushing against the boundaries of what poetry might be, Alison Glennys The Farewell Tourist is haunting, many-layered and slightly surreal. In 'The Magnetic Process' sequence a man and a woman inhabit a polar world, adrift in zones of divergence, where dreams are filled with snow, icebergs, and sinking ...Show more
The Heart of Jesus Valentino by Emma Gilkison
$40.00 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
During a routine 12-week scan, Emma Gilkison thinks it looks as though her unborn baby has a marble rolling on his chest. In fact, it is his heart growing outside his body - an extremely rare and fatal condition called ectopia cordis. Emma and her partner Roy now face two heartbreaking options. Should t ...Show more