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Remote Sympathy by Catherine Chidgey
$35.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
Moving away from Munich isn't nearly as wrenching an experience for Frau Greta Hahn as she had feared. Their new home is even lovelier than the one they left behind, and best of all - right on their doorstep - are some of the finest craftsmen from all over Europe, prepared to make for her and the other ...Show more
Hiakai: Modern Maori Cuisine by Monique Fiso
$65.00 NZD
Category: Cooking
Monique Fiso is a modern-day food warrior, taking Māori cuisine to the world. After years overseas in Michelin-star restaurants, Monique returned to Aotearoa to begin Hiakai, an innovative pop-up venture that's now a revered, award-winning restaurant in Wellington. Monique has also gone on to feature o ...Show more
Ralph Hotere - The Dark is Light Enough: A Biographical Portrait by Vincent O'Sullivan
$45.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Biography
Vincent O'Sullivan's compelling, nuanced portrait of the great New Zealand artist Ralph Hotere brings the man and his art to life. Ralph Hotere (Te Aupouri and Te Rarawa; 1931-2013) was one of Aotearoa's most significant modern artists. Hotere invited the poet, novelist and biographer Vincent O'Sulliva ...Show more
An Exquisite Legacy: The Work and Art of New Zealand Naturalist G.V. Hudson by George Gibbs
$60.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Natural History
The biography of one of New Zealand's greatest naturalist-artists, G. V.Hudson. George Hudson, 1867-1946, was one of New Zealand's pioneer naturalists, who devoted his life to collecting and describing the New Zealand insect fauna. He amassed what is probably the largest collection of New Zealand insec ...Show more
Bug Week by Airini Beautrais
$30.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
A science educator in domestic chaos fetishises Scandinavian furniture and champagne flutes. A group of white-collar deadbeats attend a swinger's party in the era of drunk Muldoon. A pervasive smell seeps through the walls of a German housing block. A seabird performs at an open-mic night. Bug Week is a ...Show more
Nature Stilled by Jane Ussher
$70.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Natural History
Award-winning photographer Jane Ussher had unprecedented access to Te Papa's natural history collection to shoot this outstanding book, and the result is a true treasure. Beautifully packaged, and stunningly photographed, it is a must-have for any book lover's collection and a perfect gift.
Sprigs by Brannavan Gnanalingam
$38.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Fiction
It is Saturday afternoon and two boys' schools are locked in battle for college rugby supremacy. Priya - a fifteen year old who barely belongs - watches from the sidelines. Then it is Saturday night and the team is partying, Priya's friends have evaporated and she isn't sure what to do. In the weeks aft ...Show more
Specimen: Personal Essays by Madison Hamill
$30.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
A father rollerblading to church in his ministerial robes, a university student in a leotard sprinting through fog, a trespass notice from Pak'nSave, a beautiful unborn goat in a jar . . . In scenarios ranging from the mundane to the surreal, Madison Hamill looks back at her younger selves with a sharp ...Show more
National Anthem by Mohamed Hassan
$35.00 NZD
Category: Poetry / Plays
National Anthem is a new poetry collection from award-winning journalist and writer Mohamed Hassan. It charts an intimate course through memories from his childhood and upbringing in Egypt, New Zealand, Turkey and elsewhere to untangle the intersecting traumas of migration, Islamophobia and grief and as ...Show more
Funkhaus by Hinemoana Baker
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Poetry / Plays
A queer / takatapui Maori writer living in Berlin, Germany since 2015, Hinemoana Baker brings a unique perspective both to and from the 'global North'. Drawing on the German meaning of the word 'funken' - to send a radio signal - her latest collection broadcasts unsettling songs of rebirth, love, friend ...Show more
Nothing to See by Pip Adam
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Fiction
It’s 1994. Peggy and Greta are learning how to live sober. They go to meetings and they ring their support person, Diane. They have just enough money for one Tom Yum between them, but mostly they eat carrot sandwiches. They volunteer at the Salvation Army shop, and sometimes they sleep with men for mone ...Show more
This Pakeha Life: An Unsettled Memoir by Alison Jones
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Biography
This book is about my making sense here, of my becoming and being Pakeha. Every Pakeha becomes a Pakeha in their own way, finding her or his own meaning for that Maori word. This is the story of what it means to me. I have written this book for Pakeha - and other New Zealanders - curious about their sen ...Show more