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Life on the Road - Kiwi Trucking Stories by Randolph Covich
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
Kiwi truckies are the unsung heroes of New Zealand - the men and women who make great personal sacrifice and often risk their lives to keep our country running. The people who devote their life, in some way or another, to what is often a hard and lonely passion. Life on the Roadgathers together their f ...Show more
The Hunters : The Precarious Lives of New Zealand's Birds of Prey by Debbie Stewart
$50.00 NZD
Category: NZ Natural History
From an extinct giant eagle and an owl that sounded like the devil, to the morepork we hear calling at night, the falcon that appears on our $20 note and the hawks we see swooping on the grisly remains of dead critters on the road, this book takes a close look at these fascinating birds and the people w ...Show more
Straight from the Pig's Mouth - The Life and Crimes of a Kiwi Detective by Al Lester
$38.00 NZD
Category: Crime (True)
'This book takes you into the life of a New Zealand police detective.I tell it how it was and spare few details so that you too can see the world through one policeman's eyes. The stories contained in this bookrange from the humorous, strange and bizarre to extreme violence and murders. This is the lot ...Show more
Dear Oliver: Uncovering a Pakeha History by Peter Wells
$39.99 NZD
Category: NZ History
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 experienced ...Show more
This Mortal Boy by Fiona Kidman
$38.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
An utterly compelling recreation of the events that led to one of the last executions in New Zealand. Albert Black, known as the 'jukebox killer', was only twenty when he was convicted of murdering another young man in a fight at a milk bar in Auckland on 26 July 1955. His crime fuelled growing moral p ...Show more
To The Mountains: A Collection of New Zealand Alpine Writing by Laurence Fearnley; Paul Hersey
$45.00 NZD
Category: NZ Outdoors
This stylish and affordable hardback is an exciting compendium of adventure and nature writing, history, philosophy and literature, from the quirky to the sublime. Aimed at real mountaineers as well as the armchair variety.
The Infinite Air by Fiona Kidman
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
"A superbly written novel offering an intriguing interpretation of one of the world s greatest aviators, the glamorous and mysterious Jean Batten. /B>ean Batten became an international icon in the 1930s. A brave, beautiful woman, she made a number of heroic solo flights across the world. The newspape ...Show more
Go Girl: A Storybook of Epic NZ Women by Barbara Else
$34.99 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
GO GIRL is a collection of true stories about New Zealand women who have done extraordinary things. They strove for their goals. They weren't afraid to step up or speak out. They blazed a trail for others to follow. This book was written to show that YOU can join them! Just some of the amazing wom ...Show more
A Short History of the New Zealand Wars by Gordon McLauchlan
$29.99 NZD
Category: NZ History
Following the ongoing success of A Short History of New Zealand, Great Tales of New Zealand History and Great Tales of Rural New Zealand - all reprinted and still going strong - Gordon McLauchlan has turned his masterful storytelling skills to one of the most important periods in this country's history. ...Show more
Obsession by SANDYS ELSPETH
$34.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
Obsession is a literary mystery tale, the story of an obsessive love affair, and the repercussions long after the affair has ended. The two people at the heart of the story are writers. The third person in the triangle is a celebrated poet of Dalmatian extraction. It recreates the era in an atmosphere c ...Show more
Great Walks of New Zealand by Craig Potton
$49.99 NZD
Category: NZ Outdoors
Great Walks of New Zealand is a tribute to New Zealand's eight finest walking tracks, by renowned wilderness photographer Craig Potton. Based on the best-selling Classic Walks of New Zealand, this book has been updated and revised to focus on our Great Walks, a reflection of the international prominence ...Show more
Beneath Pale Water by Thalia Henry
$29.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
Set amidst the physical and psychological landscapes of New Zealand's southern hills and grasslands, Beneath Pale Water is a social realist and expressionistic novel that follows a triangle of three damaged individuals - a sculptor, a vagrant and a model - who have grown calcified shells against the wor ...Show more
