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The Natural Home: Tips, Ideas & Recipes for a Sustainable Life by Wendyl Nissen
$39.99 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
Wendyl Nissen shares her approach to living a balanced and sustainable life based on an old-fashioned model of growing and cooking your own food, avoiding artificial products and doing your best to avoid letting unnecessary chemical cocktails into your life.
Rich Enough? A Laid-Back Guide for Every Kiwi by Mary Holm
$36.99 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
Read this one book, set up your money, and get on with your life! Find out what many in the financial world don't want you to know. Laid-back investing is not only easier, it can actually make you richer. Learn how to kill off debt, curb spending, find your best KiwiSaver fund, save painlessly, buy a h ...Show more
New Zealand's Great Walks: The Complete Guide by Paul Hersey; Shelley Hersey
$45.00 NZD
Category: NZ Outdoors
New Zealand's Great Walks are truly world class. In a country blessed with hundreds of spectacular tracks to choose from, these are considered the best of the best. They pass through some of our most breathtaking landscapes - including golden sand beaches, ancient rainforests and high mountains. New Ze ...Show more
Hillary's Antarctica by Nigel Watson; Jane Ussher
$49.99 NZD
Category: NZ History
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
Government for the Public Good: The Surprising Science of Large-Scale Collective Action: 2018 by Max Rashbrooke
$49.99 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
In this wide-ranging book, Max Rashbrooke goes beyond anecdote and partisanship, delving deep into the latest research about the sweeping changes made to the public services that shape our collective lives. What he unearths is startling: it challenges established thinking on the effectiveness of market- ...Show more
From the Ashes by Deborah Challinor
$36.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
Allie Manaia must navigate society's disapproval of her mixed-race marriage to Sonny, while at the same time attempting to cope with the death of their baby, and undiagnosed PTSD - a result of being caught in the Dunbar & Jones department store fire two years earlier. Allie's grief, and her distress ...Show more
Wild Journeys by Bruce Ansley
$45.00 NZD
Category: NZ History
In Wild Journeys Bruce Ansley retraces the path of doomed surveyor John Whitcombe across the Southern Alps, follows the raiding party of northern chief Te Puoho along the West Coast, sails around New Zealand's North and South capes, walks through the valley under the Two Thumb Range to mythical Mesopota ...Show more
Birdstories - A History of the Birds of New Zealand by Geoff Norman
$59.99 NZD
Category: NZ Natural History
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 N ...Show more
Godley by Terry Kinloch
$59.99 NZD
Category: Military
A comprehensive biography of General Sir Alexander Godley, presenting for the first time a fair and balanced look at his time as commander of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force (NZEF) and II ANZAC Corps during World War I. While Godley is generally remembered as being a poor field commander, Terry Kinl ...Show more
Ocean: Tales of voyaging and encounter that defined New Zealand by Sarah Ell
$70.00 NZD
Category: NZ History
Lying in the middle of a vast ocean, Aotearoa New Zealand was the last habitable land mass in the world to be settled by humans. Our history represents the powerful coming-together of two great seafaring traditions, Polynesian and European.Oceantells the stories of pioneers and trail-blazers, from the b ...Show more
The Ice Shelf by Anne Kennedy
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
The Ice Shelf - an eco-comedy. On the eve of flying to Antarctica to take up an arts fellowship, thirty-something Janice, recently separated, has a long night of remembrance, regret and realisation as she goes about the city looking for a friend to take care of her fridge while she's away. En route she ...Show more
Memory Pieces by Maurice Gee
$35.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
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
