Consolations of Insignificance: A New Zealand Diplomatic Memoir by Terence O'Brien
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ
Terence O’Brien was a born diplomat – urbane, clever, adaptable and hardworking, with a talent for strategy and negotiation.Although born in England, he was a loyal and dedicated New Zealander and spent most of his life working to improve the country’s position internationally. In his 50-year foreign af ...Show more
Spiders (A Mini Guide to the Identification of New Zealand...) by Andrew Crowe
$14.00 NZD
Category: NZ | Series: Mini Guide to the Identification of New Zealand...
A handy guide to the identification of New Zealand Spiders. Condensed from Andrew Crowe's popular bestseller Which New Zealand Spider?, this little book has been designed to fit into a pocket, day pack or bag. Full of essential information for quick accurate identification of spiders, this new mini guid ...Show more
An Intentional Marriage by Brian Hight
$26.99 NZD
Category: Self-development
Brian Hight takes us on a deeply personal journey, revealing how unintentionality nearly shattered his marriage. While his Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD-1) and introverted nature played a role, it was ultimately his choice to stop investing in his relationship that led to the crisis. With raw honesty ...Show more
Ans Westra: A Life in Photography by Paul Moon
$50.00 NZD
Category: NZ
The photographer Ans Westra, who died in 2023, took hundreds of thousands of images over her long career. Together, those images constitute what is arguably a photo album of Aotearoa. Her dedication and determination sometimes came at a cost but she was focused and driven, overcoming a difficult childho ...Show more
Otherhood: Essays On Being Childless, Childfree, and Child Adjacent by Alie Benge; Lil O'Brien; Kathryn van Beek (Editors)
$39.99 NZD
Category: NZ
In Aotearoa the number of people who will never have children is growing — and they’re pushing back against the narrative that if they don’t, their lives will be somehow ‘less than’. Otherhood’s essays are by writers who’ve felt on the outside looking in, who’ve lived unexpected lives and who’ve given ...Show more
The Trials Of Nurse Kerr by Scott Bainbridge
$37.99 NZD
Category: NZ
Did New Zealand have a secret poisoner? In 1992, builders demolishing a Devonport home stumbled across a skeleton, triggering an investigation that sent shockwaves across the community. The remains belonged to a woman who had died in the 1930s, and whispers soon emerged of the deadly legacy of Nurse E ...Show more
Environmental Defenders: Fighting for our natural world by Peart, Raewyn
$79.99 NZD
Category: NZ
For over 50 years the Environmental Defence Society (EDS) has been at the forefront of protecting Aotearoa New Zealand’s natural environments. From the Think Big power projects of the 1970s, to coastal developments on pristine northland beaches and the destruction of the Mackenzie Country’s unique d ...Show more
A Duck-Shaped Octopus: A Family's Journey Through Childhood Cancer by Roanne Barnes Hautapu
$45.00 NZD
Category: Health
The Antipodean Express: A journey by train from New Zealand to Spain by Gregory Hill
$44.99 NZD
Category: Travel
An epic train journey from New Zealand to Spain, across 19 countries in 89 days on 33 different trains. From New Zealand's Northern Explorer to the Eurostar, the book captures the romance of rail travel, exploring cultures, cuisines, history and people along the way. An epic journey from New Zealand to ...Show more
He Awa Whiria: Braiding the knowledge streams in research, policy and practice
$50.00 NZD
Category: NZ
The concept of a braided river – he awa whiria – inspired the creation by pioneering educational researcher Professor Angus Macfarlane of a framework connecting Indigenous and Western perspectives. The He Awa Whiria framework has been used to support bicultural partnership approaches to policy devel ...Show more
Six-Legged Ghosts: The insects of Aotearoa by Lily Duval
$55.00 NZD
Category: NZ
Why isn’t Aotearoa famous for its insects? We have wētā that can survive being frozen, weevils with ‘snouts’ almost as long as their bodies, and the world’s only alpine cicadas. There is mounting evidence that insect numbers are plummeting all over the world. But the insect apocalypse isn’t just a fara ...Show more
Portrait of a War Artist: A young doctor's Vietnam wartime experience in words and pictures by John Gillies
$34.99 NZD
Category: Military
In this captivating and beautifully illustrated memoir, John Gillies vividly recalls his months as a member of the Otago University Medical Company on an active service tour of duty in South Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Still a medical student at the time, his youthful admiration of New Zealand war a ...Show more