Hairy Maclary Treasury: The Complete Adventures of Hairy Maclary (HB) by Lynley Dodd
50.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Childrens Picture Books
This beautiful gold 40th-birthday edition of the bestselling Hairy Maclary Treasury is a complete collection of Hairy Maclary's adventures, and includes a reading of the stories by Lynley Dodd. Out of the gate and off for a walk went Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy . . . Ever since 1983, when Hairy ...Show more
The Trowenna Sea by Witi Ihimaera
55.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Hohepa Te Umuroa is with Te Rauparaha at the Wairau killings in the 1840s, and at Boulcotts Farm in the Hutt Valley when white settlers lose their lives. Convicted of insurrection, he and four companions are transported to the convict town of Hobart to serve their sentences. Ismay Glossop and her doctor ...Show more
Fishes of Aotearoa by Paul Caiger
80.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Natural History | Reading Level: near fine
With such a long coastline, and countless rivers and lakes, New Zealand truly is an aquatic nation, home to a bounty of colourful and characterful fishes. Fishes of Aotearoa, is a major celebration of this fish life, set to the backdrop of all our primary underwater habitats, from freshwater rivers, lak ...Show more
Don't Dream It's Over: The remarkable life of Neil Finn by Jeff Apter
38.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Biography
Don't Dream It's Over is the first biography to focus exclusively on Neil Finn, the man who wrote the timeless hits of Split Enz and Crowded House. In February 1980, 21-year-old Neil Mullane Finn wrote 'I Got You', which became the signature song, and the biggest hit, for the Kiwi band Split Enz, co-fo ...Show more
The Forgotten Forest: In Search of the Lost Plants and Fungi of Aotearoa by Robert Vennell
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Natural History
A guide to the spectacular oddities of the New Zealand forest, by the bestselling author of The Meaning of Trees and Secrets of the Sea. Deep in the forest, in places you would never think to look, are some of the most remarkable creatures. Overlooked and unsung, this is the forgotten forest: a world ...Show more
Good Sports - A Storybook of Kiwi Sports Heroes by Stuart Lipshaw
45.00 NZD
Category: Children - Reference
GOOD SPORTS is a powerful illustrated storybook celebrating Aotearoa's sporting heroes.Be inspired by this collection of true stories about 50 remarkable Kiwi sports heroes- people who have set goals, aimed high and achieved their dreams. A real mixture of well-known and lesser-known stories, this book ...Show more
Amma by Saraid de Silva
38.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Fiction
Singapore, 1951. When Josephina is a girl, her parents lock her in a room with the father of the boy to whom she's betrothed. What happens next will determine the course of her life for generations to come. New Zealand, 1984. Josephina and her family leave Sri Lanka for New Zealand. But their new home ...Show more
Our Land in Colour by Jock Phillips, Brendan Graham
55.00 NZD
Category: NZ - History | Reading Level: very good
A breathtaking collection of 200 photographs expertly colourised by Aotearoa New Zealand's premier colourist, Brendan Graham, with commentary from award-winning historian Jock Phillips ONZM Our Land in Colour celebrates the rich story of Aotearoa through the restoration of images never before seen in co ...Show more
Where the Flaming Hell Are We?: The story of young Australians and New Zealanders fighting the Nazis in Greece and Crete by Craig Collie
38.00 NZD
Category: Military
The gripping story of Australia and New Zealand in the fight for the Aegean - through the eyes of the soldiers. 'We used our knees and our rifle butts and our blades. For a while we stopped being ordinary blokes and became blood-lusted creatures.' March, 1941: 40,000 Australian and New Zealand troops a ...Show more
Knock Knock: Confessions of a Kiwi Interviewer by Trish Palmer
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Biography
Extraordinary stories from a lifetime spent conducting interviews. This is the world of the dreaded door-knock from the other side of the door. Trish Palmer has been working as an interviewer and area manager for market research companies for over 20 years, invited into the homes and private lives of a ...Show more
The Bookseller at the End of the World by Ruth Shaw
39.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Biography | Reading Level: very good
A rich, immersive, funny and heartbreaking memoir of the charming bookseller who runs two tiny bookshops in the remote village of Manapouri in Fiordland, in the deep south of New Zealand. Ruth Shaw weaves together stories of the characters who visit her bookshops, musings about her favourite books, and ...Show more
Nine Girls by Stacy Gregg
22.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Children - 9 to 14 | Reading Level: near fine
Nine Girls is a page-turning adventure from Stacy Gregg, one of Aotearoa's most internationally successful and locally awarded writers.An epic story woven with suspense by Pony Club Secrets and The Princess and the Foal author Stacy Gregg.They dug a hole and they put the box filled with gold inside it.T ...Show more