Root Leaf Flower Fruit - A Verse Novel by Bill Nelson
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Poetry / Plays | Reading Level: near fine
A woman lies helpless after a stroke, her family gathered. Her grandson, healing slowly from a head injury after coming off his bike, takes leave from his job and family to prepare her rundown house and farm for sale. As he works, he sifts through what remains of his grandmother’s daily life. Then, afte ...Show more
Ghosts of Gondwana: The History of Life in New Zealand Fully Revised Edition by George Gibbs
65.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Natural History | Reading Level: near fine
Have you ever wondered why New Zealand's plants and animals are so different from those in other countries? Why kakapo is the only parrot in the world that cannot fly, or why the kiwi lives here and nowhere else? New Zealand is an extraordinary place, unique on earth, and the remarkable story of how and ...Show more
Classic New Zealand Mountain Bike Rides South Island Updated 9th Edition by Jonathan Kennett
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Guidebooks
The ninth edition of New Zealand's best-selling mountain biking guide has been fully revised to include all the essential information needed to guide you to the most exhilarating rides around the country. For over 25 years, the Kennett Brothers have carved a name for themselves in the sport of mountain ...Show more
New Zealand Seaweeds: An Illustrated Guide by Wendy Nelson
65.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Natural History | Reading Level: near fine
A fully revised and completely redesigned edition of the first photographic identification guide to New Zealand's unique marine algae, by the country's pre-eminent seaweed expert Wendy Nelson. Across three main sections covering green, brown and red algae, over 150 genera and 250 key species are describ ...Show more
AUP New Poets 9 by Sarah Lawrence; harold coutts; Arielle Walker
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Poetry / Plays | Series: AUP New Poets Ser.
Longing, fragility, romance and other tidal forces collide in AUP New Poets 9. In poems by Sarah Lawrence, harold coutts and Arielle Walker, three fresh, vivid voices arrive. In ‘Clockwatching’, Sarah Lawrence hurtles us into a world full of friends and homes and things, and wonders what they all migh ...Show more
A Kind of Shelter Whakaruru-taha by Witi Ihimaera (Editor); Michelle Elvy (Editor)
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Fiction | Series: 1st
Sixty-eight writers and eight artists gather at a hui in a magnificent cave-like dwelling or meeting house. In the middle is a table, the tepu korero, from which the rangatira speak; they converse with honoured guests, and their rangatira-korero embody the tahuhu, the over-arching horizontal ridge pole ...Show more
Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton
28.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Fiction
Birnam Wood is on the move… A landslide has closed the Korowai Pass in New Zealand’s South Island, cutting off the town of Thorndike, leaving a sizable farm abandoned. The disaster presents an opportunity for Birnam Wood, a guerrilla gardening collective that plants crops wherever no one will notice. Bu ...Show more
Colin McCahon: Is This the Promised Land?: Vol.2 1960-1987 by Peter Simpson
80.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Art | Series: Colin Mccahon Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
The second of an extraordinary two-volume work chronicling forty-five years of painting by our most important artist, Colin McCahon. Colin McCahon (1919–1987) was New Zealand’s greatest twentieth-century artist. Through landscapes, biblical paintings and abstraction, the introduction of words and Māori ...Show more
A First Book of Unique New Zealand Bird Songs by Fred Van Gessel
28.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Natural History
Whether you're 5 years old or 65, it's never too late to get to know the feathered friends in your backyard or your surroundings, and learning their songs will open your eyes to a whole new world. Therefore this beautifully illustrated sound guide is the perfect way to introduce both children and adults ...Show more
Moon & Sun by Melinda Szymanik
20.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Childrens Picture Books
Moon is sad. She feels dull next to her bright happy sister, Sun. She hides away at night until Sun tells Moon how special she is and how she would love to share the sky with her. This beautifully illustrated children’s book explains how our differences are our strengths and how together we can make th ...Show more
Uprising: Walking the Southern Alps of New Zealand by Nic Low
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Biography
This book is about walking as a form of knowing. Armed with Ngāi Tahu’s ancient oral maps and modern satellite atlas, I crossed the Southern Alps more than a dozen times, trying to understand how our forebears saw the land. What did it mean to define your identity by sacred mountains, or actually see th ...Show more
Ruth, Roger and Me: Debts and Legacies (BWB Texts) by Andrew Dean
15.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Politics | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: very good
'Your words of "discomfort, loss, and disconnection" don't resonate with me at all.' Ruth Richardson to Andrew Dean, 16 December 2014. A time of major upheaval now stands between young and old in New Zealand. In Ruth, Roger and Me, Andrew Dean explores the lives of the generation of young people brought ...Show more