Parrots of the World by Steve Brookes
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Natural History
Parrots have always captured the imagination of humans thanks to their bright plumage and ability to mimic speech. This beautifully illustrated book on the world's parrots explores all aspects of their lives, as well as the various parrot families, and showcases beautiful photography from around the wor ...Show more
The Best of e-Tangata by Tapu Misa (ed.); Gary Wilson (ed.)
$14.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: Very Good
The celebrated digital magazine e-Tangata is home to some of the most incisive and profound commentary on life in New Zealand. Maori, Pasifika and Pakeha writers grapple with topics that range from politics and social issues to history and popular culture. The best of these are collected together here i ...Show more
The Antipodeans by Greg McGee
$37.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A novel of epic proportions, the Antipodeans spans three generations of New Zealand and Italian families, from Venice to the South Island of New Zealand, from the assassination of a Gestapo commander in the last days of Italian resistance during World War II, to contemporary real estate shenanigans in A ...Show more
The Grass Catcher - A Digression About Home by Ian Wedde
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography | Reading Level: good-very good
From early childhood in postwar Blenheim to the remote regions of Bangladesh, from an English boarding school to 1960s Auckland, and from Jordan during the civil war of 1969-70 to family homes full of children, this dazzling book traces the many shifts in Ian Wedde's life. Haunted by the ghosts of his r ...Show more
Christchurch Dreaming by Mary Hobbs
$50.00 NZD
Category: NZ Pictorial
Secondhand. The pictorial records after the first Christchurch earthquake seemed appropriate but it now seems timely to remember the beauty of Christchurch with photos from the past, the present and looking towards the future. Ever since the first house was built in Christchurch there have been many c ...Show more
The Parihaka Woman by Witi Ihimaera
$38.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
"A wonderfully surprising, inventive and deeply moving riff on fact and fiction, history and imagination from one of New Zealand's finest and most memorable storytellers. /b>here has never been a New Zealand novel quite like The Parihaka Woman. Richly imaginative and original, weaving together fact a ...Show more
At the Turning Point - My Political Life with David Lange by Margaret Pope
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography | Reading Level: near fine
Margaret Pope writes an eyewitness account of the "turbulent 1980s and the brilliant, elusive figure at their political centre". She throws new light on the policy and personalitites of the fourth Labour government.
Predicament by Ronald Hugh Morrieson
$34.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand
Dop 2009, Wellington 138mmx210mm/210pp softcover Youthful Cedric, bored and waiting for something to change his life in the direction of his fantasies and dreams, meets Mervyn and his unusual friend. He is caught up in plots and events that both excite him and alarm him. Harmless pranks become serious c ...Show more
Vaka Moana - Voyages of the Ancestors: The Discovery and Settlement of the Pacific by Kerry Howe
$90.00 NZD
$99.00 (9% off)
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: Very Good
Secondhand. Vaka Moana is a story of origins and identity; a voyage across thousands of miles and hundreds of generations, and a testament to the ingenuity and bravery of humankind. Published to accompany a major international travelling exhibition of the same name opening at Auckland Museum on 6 Decem ...Show more
New Zealanders and the Sea by Te Ara Online Encyclopedia
$29.99 NZD
$69.99 (57% off)
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. This superbly illustrated book tells the many stories of New Zealanders and the Sea: From the science of oceanography and climate, to the history of boat building and shipping, lighthouses, castaways, the fishing industry, marine conservation, recreational boating and fishing, kaimoana and ...Show more