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
Beyond Hope: From an Auckland prison to changing lives in Afghanistan by Bariz Shah
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Biography
What does it take to find hope in dark places and change the course of your life? When Bariz Shah's family immigrated to New Zealand, they couldn't have predicted that everything would change after 9/11. Still only a child, Bariz became the target of racist abuse and bullying, and responded the only wa ...Show more
Commune: Chasing a utopian dream in Aotearoa by Olive Jones
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Biography
In 1979, teenager Olive Jones was one of a group of hippies, idealists, and subsistence farmers that set up an alternative community on a farm in the Motueka Valley near Nelson. Influenced by the countercultural movement sweeping the country during the 1970s and 80s, they were part of a widespread inter ...Show more
Native Son: The Writer's Memoir by Witi Ihimaera
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Biography | Reading Level: very good
This is the second memoir of a remarkable Maori writer and of the living myths that inspired him at the beginning of his career. Look at him, the young man on the cover. The year is 1972, he is 28, his first book is about to be published, and he has every reason to kick up his heels. But behind that joy ...Show more
Mophead: How Your Difference Makes a Difference by Selina Tusitala Marsh
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Children - 9 to 14 | Series: Mophead
An inspirational graphic memoir of growing up Pasifika in New Zealand, written and illustrated by our fast-talking PI Poet Laureate, Selina Tusitala Marsh. At school, Selina is teased for her big, frizzy hair. Kids call her ‘mophead’. She ties her hair up this way and that way and tries to fit in. Until ...Show more
Not Set in Stone by David Vass
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Biography
Between the 1980s and 2015, Dave Vass became one of New Zealand's leading mountaineers. In 'Not Set in Stone' he recounts the beginning of his outdoor life caving and rafting, before turning to climbing, first around Arthur's Pass, and then at Aoraki/Mount Cook National Park. A move to Wanaka saw him ...Show more
Letters of a Naturalist - The Field Accounts of Richard Henry of Resolution Island by Richard Treacy Henry; Susanne Hill; John Hill; Victoria Jaenecke
135.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Biography
Richard Henry was New Zealand's first wildlife ranger and champion of our flightless birds. He was appointed caretaker of Resolution Island in 1894, living and working -often alone- for fourteen years in wild and remote Dusky Sound. Henry's perceptive observations and descriptions of the wildlife of D ...Show more
Soundings - Diving for stories in the beckoning sea by Kennedy Warne
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Biography | Reading Level: near fine
For the past 40 years, Kennedy Warne, one of New Zealand's best-known nature writers and commentators, has been exploring the underwater world. His love of the ocean began as a small boy sailing and fishing with this father on the Hauraki Gulf and was further strengthened by a degree in marine biology. ...Show more
Everest Mountain Guide: The Remarkable Story of a Kiwi Mountaineer by Guy Cotter
50.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Biography
The book follows the career of Guy Cotter, Kiwi mountaineer and mountain guide, who has been leading guided ascents of Mt Everest from the early 1990’s. Everest Mountain Guide is an authentic and riveting behind-the-scenes insight into what actually transpires on the mountain, the huge challenges faced ...Show more
Under a Big Sky - Facing the elements on a New Zealand Farm by Tim Saunders
37.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Biography | Reading Level: good-very good
The joys and challenges of day-to-day farming in extraordinary circumstances. Tim Saunders writes about his life and work on the farm that's been in his family for five generations. He encompasses drought, farming during lockdown, illness, financial pressure and the drive to become more viable and envir ...Show more
Old Dogs New Tricks: More Tales from Two Kiwi Country Vets by Peter Jerram
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Biography
More cock and bull stories from New Zealand's favourite country vets Peter Anderson (aka the Flying Vet) and Peter Jerram (aka the Sailing Vet) are back with more laugh-out-loud and entertaining yarns about the animals and owners they've come across during more than thirty years in practice together. Jo ...Show more
Des Townson: A Sailing Legacy by Brian Peet
80.00 NZD
Category: Nautical
Des Townson was a yacht designer and boatbuilder who possessed an analytical mind, an innate feel for sailing boats and a wonderful eye for their visual balance. During a five decade long design career he produced some of the most eye-catching, easily handled and well performing maritime craft to ever g ...Show more