Pee Wee the Kiwi's Big New Zealand Adventure Sound Book by Blair Cooper
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Childrens Picture Books
This story is a large hardback format with great quality sound buttons. It features my favorite friends from my first book plus a few new ones. The Sound bottoms have high quality sounds from real native birds.
Adventures with Emilie: Taking on Te Araroa trail in 138 life-changing days by Victoria Bruce
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Biography
"I'm here because I want to test the very limits of my own resilience and reassure myself that no matter what's happened to me, I'm not ready to lie down and die." In 2021, Victoria Bruce quit her corporate job, packed up her life and embarked on Te Araroa trail with her seven-year-old daughter, Emilie ...Show more
Railways Studios by Neill Peter & Atkinson Alsop
70.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Art | Reading Level: near fine
For many decades the Railways Department's design studios, Railways Studio, was New Zealand's 'go-to' advertiser. Its tourism and product ads appear on railway-station hoardings and billboards throughout the land, and it developed some of New Zealand's most iconic graphic images. This big, beautiful boo ...Show more
Our Untold Stories: Extraordinary Tales from New Zealand's Past by Tom Clarke
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ - History
Our Untold Stories is a collection of interesting, informative, entertaining, amusing, inspiring, tragic and fascinating stories from New Zealand’s past — stories which have been largely forgotten or were unknown. For more than 40 years, former journalist Tom Clarke has been gathering stories for a Tod ...Show more
Dark Sky by Marie Connolly
38.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Fiction
Criminal psychologist Nellie Prayle loves solving murders. The more complicated, the better. But when a professor of astronomy is found dead at Tekapo’s Mount John Observatory during its internationally-attended 50th anniversary conference celebrations and Detective Jack Simmons calls on Nellie to help ...Show more
Takahe Maths by Julie Ellis
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Childrens Picture Books | Reading Level: Children / Juvenile
Take two Takahe, isolate them for a million years and what do you have? Now add humans and the predators they bring... How do the numbers add up now? A unique approach to the study of maths, conservation, history and storytelling this picture book tells the story of the takahē, once thought to be exti ...Show more
Finding Frank by Louise Maich
50.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Biography
By 1965 at the age of thirty, Frank Erceg had established an impressive reputation as a marksman, mountaineer and photographer, with his work widely published in newspapers and magazines of the day. That same year, Frank and his mate Johnny Cumming were killed in New Zealand’s first helicopter hunting ...Show more
Untouchable Girls: The Topp Twins' Story by Lynda Topp, Jools Topp
50.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Biography
The incredible story of how a couple of country kids from Huntly became much-loved Kiwi icons and TV stars, with their own unique brand of original country music and comedy that has captivated audiences in New Zealand and overseas for over 40 years. Jools and Lynda Topp aka The Topp Twins tell this sto ...Show more
Blood & Dirt: Prison Labour and the Making of New Zealand by Jared Davidson
50.00 NZD
Category: NZ - History | Series: 1st
'Picture, for a minute, every artwork of colonial New Zealand you can think of. Now add a chain gang. Hard labour men guarded by other men with guns. Men moving heavy metal. Men picking at the earth. Over and over again. This was the reality of nineteenth-century New Zealand.' Forced labour haunts the ...Show more
A Painted Voyage by Sean Garwood
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Art
The 108 page book featuring 27 ofSean Garwood's maritime paintings Informative background text on the artist as well as the subjects of his paintings depicting New Zealand's maritime history. Sean’s experience and understanding the sea is clearly evident in his work and it has led him to become one ...Show more
Gangster's Paradise by Jared Savage
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Reference
The much anticipated follow-up to the bestseller that exposed the escalation of organised crime in New Zealand. Gangster's Paradise is about drugs, guns, gangs and money. Lots of money. A gang which took over a small rural town. A police officer shot and killed in a routine traffic stop. A port-worker ...Show more
At the Bach by Joy Cowley
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Childrens Picture Books
An evocative and beautiful bedtime book that distils the essence of summer at the bach; creaky old bed, sandy feet, waves hush-hushing and a shell under the pillow.This simple poem by internationally renowned Joy Cowley transports the reader instantly to a childhood summer.Summer holidays by the sea hav ...Show more