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Stories of Hope: Finding Inspiration in Everyday Lives by Heather Morris
$33.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
Heather Morris, author of the internationally bestselling novels The Tattooist of Auschwitz and Cilka's Journey, grew up on a farm in rural New Zealand. On her way back across the paddocks from school, Heather would visit her great-grandfather and listen to his experiences of war - stories he told only ...Show more
The Governess: She Came from Nothing... and Raised a Queen by Wendy Holden
$33.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Historical
As the royal governess, Marion Crawford played a major role in shaping the childhood and subsequent world-view of Queen Elizabeth II, but her story is largely unknown and has never been explored in much depth. The Governess brings 'Crawfie' to life.
Mantel Pieces by Hilary Mantel
$45.00 NZD
Category: Literary Criticism & Essays & Journalism
In 1987, when Hilary Mantel was first published in the London Review of Books, she wrote to the editor, Karl Miller, ‘I have no critical training whatsoever, so I am forced to be more brisk and breezy than scholarly.’ This collection of twenty reviews, essays and pieces of memoir from the next three dec ...Show more
Royal Gardens of the World - 21 Celebrated Gardens from the Alhambra to Highgrove and Beyond by Mark Lane
$80.00 NZD
Category: Gardening
The book is a sumptuous exploration of 21 of the world's most celebrated royal gardens, from the formal splendour of Versailles to the organic, sustainable Highgrove. In mainland Europe you can journey from the formal splendour of Het Loo in the Netherlands and Fontainebleau in France to the Baroque Wo ...Show more
Birds of New Zealand: Collective Nouns by Melissa Boardman
$30.00 NZD
Category: Children - Reference
A beautifully illustrated book featuring New Zealand Aotearoa's native birds, each with its very own collective noun. A tussock of takahe? A hoon of kaka? A whistling of whio? This beautifully illustrated book of collective noun names for our native birds reveals something unique about their cha ...Show more
The Great Realisation by Tomos Roberts
$25.00 NZD
Category: Children - Picture Book
A post-pandemic bedtime tale that has captured the hearts of millions. First performed in response to the Coronavirus pandemic, Tomos Roberts' inspiring poem, with its message of hope and resilience, has been viewed more than 60 million times and translated into over 20 languages worldwide. From simple ...Show more
Tableland by Ray Salisbury
$60.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Natural History | Reading Level: near fine
The story of the Tableland, the area behind Mt Arthur on the eastern side of Kahurangi National Park. Generations of Nelsonians have lived in sight of the Arthur Range on the western border of the Nelson district. But few of them know the stories that were played out on the Tableland, the high tussock p ...Show more
Summer by Ali Smith
$34.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary | Series: Seasonal Quartet
The unmissable conclusion to Ali Smith's dazzling, Man Booker-shortlisted, Seasonal Quartet. "A prose poem in praise of memory, forgiveness, getting the joke and seizing the moment.” — Dwight Garner, The New York Times In the present, Sacha knows the world’s in trouble. Her brother Robert just is trou ...Show more
Group: How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life by Christie Tate
$38.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
The refreshingly original debut memoir of a guarded, over-achieving, self-lacerating young lawyer who reluctantly agrees to get psychologically and emotionally naked in a room of six complete strangers - her psychotherapy group - and in turn finds human connection, and herself. Christie Tate had just b ...Show more
The Liar's Dictionary by Eley Williams
$35.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
mountweazel n. a fake entry deliberately inserted into a dictionary or work of reference. Often used as a safeguard against copyright infringement. It is the final year of the nineteenth century and Peter Winceworth has reached the letter 'S', toiling away for the much-anticipated and multi-volume Swans ...Show more
Paris by Starlight by Robert Dinsdale
$37.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Fantasy
A magical new novel from the critically acclaimed bestselling author of THE TOYMAKERS which will appeal to fans of Neil Gaiman and Erin Morgenstern. ______________________________________ Every city has its own magic... Every night on their long journey to Paris from their troubled homeland, Levon's gra ...Show more
Channel Kindness by Lady Gaga
$40.00 NZD
Category: Young Adult
Channel Kindness is a collection of fifty-one stories of kindness, bravery, and resilience from young people all over the world collected by the Born This Way Foundation and introduced by Lady Gaga. For Lady Gaga, kindness is the driving force behind everything she says and does. The quiet power of kind ...Show more