Excommunicated - A multi-generational story of leaving the Exclusive Brethren by Craig Hoyle
39.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: near fine
A heart-wrenching multigenerational family memoir by an excommunicated member of the Exclusive Brethren. After coming out as gay as a teenager, Craig Hoyle was excommunicated from the New Zealand Exclusive Brethren. The conservative sect was everything he'd ever known - a childhood where television, po ...Show more
Clanlands in New Zealand - Kiwis, Kilts, and an Adventure Down Under by Sam Heughan; Graham McTavish; Charlotte Reather
39.99 NZD
Category: Aotearoa New Zealand Books | Reading Level: very good
Buckle up, grab a dram, and get ready for another unforgettable wild ride. They're back! Stars of Outlander, Sam Heughan and Graham McTavish are no strangers to the rugged beauty of Scotland. But this time they're setting their sights on a new horizon: New Zealand. Join our intrepid Scotsmen on their la ...Show more
Native Shells of Aotearoa by Bruce Marshall; Kerry Walton
26.99 NZD
Category: NZ Field Guides
This handy and accessible introduction to shells found along New Zealand's coastline is aimedat the general public, museum visitors and tourists, with a 1950s-inspired giftable design anddelightful illustrations. It provides insights into the museum's fieldwork and collections, and is thefourth in a ser ...Show more
Victory at Gate Pa? The Battle of Pukehinahina 1894 by Mikaere, Buddy
39.99 NZD
Category: NZ History
Victory at Gate Pā? examines, in exquisite detail, the historical background to the battle, the battle itself and the subsequent Battle of Te Ranga. The aftermath that saw 50,000 acres of prime land confiscated and a people driven into poverty and despair. The 29 April 1864 Battle of Pukehinahina-Gate ...Show more
A Photographic Guide to Birds of New Zealand by Geoff Moon
27.99 NZD
Category: NZ Field Guides
A reprint under a new ISBN, this fully revised edition with species accounts has been updated according to the 4th edition of the Ornithological Society's official Checklist of the Birds of New Zealand. The many changes include updates to classification, distribution and population status. Maori names ...Show more
The Wish Child by Catherine Chidgey
29.99 NZD
Category: Staff Picks- Read our reviews | Reading Level: Very Good
Winner of the New Zealand Book Award for Fiction Germany, 1939. Two children watch as their parents become immersed in the puzzling mechanisms of power. Siggi lives in the affluent ignorance of middle-class Berlin, her father a censor who excises prohibited words ('promise', 'love', 'mercy'). Erich is a ...Show more
New Zealand Landscapes (Pocket edition) by Andris Apse
21.99 NZD
Category: NZ Pictorial
This is a newly-introduced mini version of the revised Andris Apse New Zealand Landscapes - a pictorial photography book which has been revised and refreshed since its first publication in 1994. The book has been produced as a quality New Zealand pictorial memento.
Dad, You've Got Dementia by Kristen Phillips
26.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biographies & Memoirs
Dad, You’ve Got Dementia shows people living with dementia and their whānau that it’s possible to stay connected with those they love. When Kristen’s father, Don, was diagnosed with dementia the signs had been there for five years. He’d gone out less and less, given up driving and table tennis and rel ...Show more
Te Pae: The Place Where we Meet by Lizzy Pearson
64.99 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
The Otautahi Christchurch of today is made up of numerous suburbs, each with its own characteristics, surrounded and built in an area of astonishing natural beauty. In 2010 and 2011 the city was hit by a series of devastating earthquakes. Neighborhoods were destroyed or damaged beyond repair, and the im ...Show more
Amma by Saraid de Silva
37.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
Singapore, 1951. When Josephina is a girl, her parents lock her in a room with the father of the boy to whom she's betrothed. What happens next will determine the course of her life for generations to come. New Zealand, 1984. Josephina and her family leave Sri Lanka for New Zealand. But their new home ...Show more
Te Ata o Tū: The Shadow of Tumatauenga by Matiu Baker, Katie Cooper, Michael Fitzgerald and Rebecca Rice (editors)
69.99 NZD
Category: NZ History
The New Zealand Wars of 1845-72 were a series of bitter and bloody conflicts between Maori and Pakeha that extended from Wairau to the Bay of Islands, and from Taranaki to the East Cape. They are as important to New Zealand as the civil wars were to England and to the United States. Land and sovereignty ...Show more