The Work by Bri Lee
$36.99 NZD
Category: Lifestyle and Contemporary Culture
The intersections between art, life, power and privilege are explored in this first work of fiction from the bestselling author of Eggshell Skull. Lally has invested everything into her gallery in Manhattan and the sacrifices are finally paying off. Pat is a scholarship boy desperate to establish himsel ...Show more
A Nest of Singing Birds: One Hundred Years of the New Zealand School Journal by Gregory O'Brien
$45.00 NZD
Category: saxa liquefacta | Reading Level: New
The School Journal will be 100 years old in May 2007. A Nest of Singing Birds: One hundred years of the New Zealand School Journal - a fullcolour, lavishly illustrated book by award-winning writer Gregory O'Brien - celebrates, in words and images, the publication that over the last hundred years has sha ...Show more
Opportunity by Charlotte Grimshaw
$27.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
"You could look back after a long time and ask, who wanted what from whom?" A man confronts death after an operation, a devout Christian encounters a man who hurt her long ago, a secretary uncovers her boss's secret shame. And in a house in Auckland an elderly woman is writing the last book of her life, ...Show more
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
$26.99 NZD
Category: Environment
This title includes "The Chimes" and "The Haunted Man". Ebenezer Scrooge is unimpressed by Christmas. He has no time for festivities or goodwill toward his fellow men and is only interested in money. Then, on the night of Christmas Eve, his life is changed by a series of ghostly visitations that show hi ...Show more
Dark Emu: Aboriginal Australia and the Birth of Agriculture by Bruce Pascoe
$19.99 NZD
Category: indigenous history | Reading Level: very good
Dark Emu argues for a reconsideration of the 'hunter-gatherer' tag for pre-colonial Aboriginal Australians and attempts to rebut the colonial myths that have worked to justify dispossession. Accomplished author Bruce Pascoe provides compelling evidence from the diaries of early explorers that suggests t ...Show more
One Planet 2 by Lonely Planet
$19.99 NZD
Category: Illustration | Series: General Reference Ser.
Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher* One Planet is a celebration of great travel photography, and of the diversity and similarities within our world. Paired images encourage the appreciation of connections between people and places continents apart. Images each capture a moment in ...Show more
Devils on Horses : In the Words of Anzacs in the Middle East 1916-19 by Terry Kinloch
$55.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: Very Good
'Devils on Horses is a very important book for New Zealanders, and for those who read military history. We now have an account of the New Zealand Mounted Rifles Brigade in Sinai and Palestine that at last does justice to their story. This was perhaps the finest body of New Zealanders ever to serve overs ...Show more
The Transit of Venus: How a Rare Astronomical Alignment Changed the World by Peter Adds
$25.00 NZD
Category: Reference and Anthology | Series: Awa Science Series
On June 8, 2004, the planet Venus moved across the face of the sun. This historic event was rare: the last Transit of Venus occurred 121 years earlier. On June 6, 2012, Venus will again transit the sun. In this book, scientists and historians write of the extraordinary impact these cosmic events have ha ...Show more
Southern Alps - Nature & History of New Zealand's Mountain World by Alison Ballance
$59.99 NZD
$89.99 (33% off)
Category: Environment | Reading Level: Very Good
This is a massive book - big in size and big in content. It's over 300 pages and includes about 300 images. Hardback and jacketed, it's a major natural history title. It's a celebration of the most phenomenal landform in New Zealand - the Southern Alps - the backbone of the country. This book tells the ...Show more
Look This Way - New Zealand Writers on New Zealand Artists by Sally Blundell
$44.99 NZD
Category: Reference and Anthology | Reading Level: Very Good
In this attractive, intelligent and lively book well-known New Zealand writers - poets, novelists, even an economist - write about their favourite local artist. While much art history and criticism is mired in jargon, dullness or obscurity, this book offers fresh, articulate, personal responses that als ...Show more
Mau Moko: The World of Maori Tattoo by Ngahuia Awekotuku with Linda Waimarie Nikora
$65.00 NZD
$67.00 (2% off)
Category: Lifestyle and Contemporary Culture | Reading Level: very good
In the traditional Maori world, the moko, or facial or body tattoo, was a sign of great mana and status. Male warriors wore elaborate tattoos on their faces and bodies; women took more delicate chin tattoos. After almost dying out in the twentieth century, Maori tattooing is now experiencing a powerful ...Show more
The Blue by Mary McCallum
$28.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: Very Good
Lilian lives in an isolated island community at the mouth of Tory Channel trying to make the best of a life that has at its core a secret grief. It is 1938 and for three months of every year the men take to the sea to hunt whales with fast boats and explosive harpoons. This year, the whales aren't the o ...Show more