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Stories on the Four Winds: Nga hau e Wha by Brian Bargh; Robyn Bargh
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Authors | Series: 1st
This collection brings together twenty short stories from eighteen of New Zealand's accomplished writers. They explore the dark and dangerous milieu of our comfortable existence. There is humour, tenderness, surprise, anger, sorrow and abject desperation in these stories from the four winds.
Tangata Whenua - A History [text-only edition] by Atholl Anderson, Judith Binney, Aroha Harris
$49.99 NZD
Category: History | Series: 1st | Reading Level: very good
Tangata Whenua: A History presents a rich narrative of the Māori past from ancient origins in South China to the twenty-first century, in a handy paperback format. The authoritative text is drawn directly from the award-winning Tangata Whenua: An Illustrated History; the full text of the big hardback is ...Show more
Te Kaieke Tohorā (The Whale Rider in te reo Maori) by Witi Ihimaera; Timoti Karetu i whakamaori
$26.00 NZD
Category: Te Reo Maori | Series: 1st
Whakamiharo ana tera te tirohanga atu ki a ia, ki te kaieke tohora. I rere atu te wai i a ia, ka hamama tona waha kia taea ai te hau makariri te kupa iho. Ko ana karu e kohara ana i te ahurei. Korekoreko katoa ana te tinana i te rehu taimana. I runga i taua taniwha ano nei he tekoteko paku kua whakairot ...Show more
The New Zealand Wars | Nga Pakanga o Aotearoa by Vincent O'Malley
$39.99 NZD
Category: NZ | Series: 1st | Reading Level: near fine
The New Zealand Wars were a series of conflicts that profoundly shaped the course and direction of our nations history. Fought between the Crown and various groups of Maori between 1845 and 1872, the wars touched many aspects of life in nineteenth century New Zealand, even in those regions spared actual ...Show more
The Raupo Book of Maori Proverbs by Aw Reed et al.
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ | Series: 1st | Reading Level: Very Good
Proverbs (or whakatauki) express the wisdom, wit and commonsense of the Maori people. They are of great value and inspiration to writers, story-tellers and anyone speaking in a Maori setting. Several hundred proverbs are contained in The Raupo Book of Maori Proverbs, categorised under a large number of ...Show more
The Story of a Treaty / He Korero Tiriti (3rd edition) by Claudia Orange
$35.00 NZD
The Treaty of Waitangi/Te Tiriti o Waitangi is a central document in New Zealand history. This lively account tells the story of the Treaty from its signing in 1840, through the debates and struggles of the nineteenth century, to the gathering political momentum of recent decades. The third edition of T ...Show more
Victory Park by Rachel Kerr
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Authors | Series: 1st | Reading Level: near fine
Kara lives in Victory Park council flats with her young son, just making a living by minding other people’s kids – her nightly smoke on the fire escape the only time she can drop her guard and imagine something better. But the truth is life is threadbare and unpromising until the mysterious Bridget move ...Show more
Why Memory Matters: 'Remembered histories' and the Politics of the Past (BWB Texts) by Rowan Light
$17.99 NZD
Why Memory Matters