One Stroppy Jockey: The Christine Lawn Story by Sandy McKay
$34.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand
'One minute there you are cruising along just fine and the next minute everything's changed forever.' Feisty, strong-willed and plucky: that's how friends describe jockey Christine Lawn. Drawn by her love of horses to first work as a stable-hand and later as an apprentice jockey, Christine rode ninetee ...Show more
Kiwitown's Port : The Story of Oamaru's Harbour by Gavin McLean
$40.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: Near Fine
Colonial New Zealand depended on sea transport, every major or aspiring centre had to have a port, hopefully loading cargo on a 'Home boat. This book traces the history of one such port into the twenty-first century. "Today's heritage object is yesterday's developer's dream."
The New Zealand Vegetable Book by Horticulture New Zealand
$24.99 NZD
$29.99 (16% off)
Category: New Zealand
A comprehensive book on all you need to know about the wide variety of vegetables available to us in New Zealand.
The Wedding Dress: 300 Years of Bridal Fashions by Edwina Ehrman
$84.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand
Accompanying an exhibition at Te Papa, The Wedding Dress: 300 Years of Bridal Fashions draws on the Victoria and Albert Museum's superb collection of fashionable wedding dresses, as well as photographs, letters, memoirs, newspaper accounts and genealogical research to explore the history of the wedding ...Show more
Dogmatic by Joe Bennett
$19.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good
Joe Bennett's columns have been published to the highest acclaim throughout the world. This, his eighth collection from Hazard Press, once again gives the over 10,000 New Zealanders who collect his columns each year the chance to add another volume to the bookcase at home. First published November ...Show more
Maori in the Great War by James Cowan
$69.95 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: New
Maori form a significant proportion of the modern New Zealand Army, and Maori officers have achieved the very highest commands, their unique culture is deeply embedded in its tradition and daily routines; celebrated by Maori (indigenous) and pakeha (non-indigenous) soldiers alike. The exploits of the 28 ...Show more
Sizing Up the City: Urban Form and Transport in New Zealand by Philippa Howden-Chapman, Keriata Stuart & Ralph Chapman (eds)
$39.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: near fine
Making New Zealand's transport sustainable will be one of the challenges of the coming decades. This book collects papers presented at national symposia on sustainable transport and urban form, and other recent writings on sustainability and our built environment. Contributors explain how public and pri ...Show more
Sins of the Father: The Long Shadow of a Religious Community by Fleur Beale
$29.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand
The disturbing story of the ruthless exercise of power in a New Zealand religious cult. Charismatic, driven and self-righteous, Neville Cooper set up his own brand of Christian utopia on earth: a reclusive community on the West Coast of New Zealand. For the 400 inhabitants of Gloriavale, his word is law ...Show more
A Continent on the Move New Zealand Geoscience into the 21st Century by Ian J Graham (editor)
$59.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: Very Good
ENVIRONMENT Category Winner Adrift in the South Pacific Ocean, separated from the rest of the world by vast distances and blessed with some of the most varied and spectacular natural landscapes on Earth, New Zealand is rather special. Generations of geoscientists have developed an increasing understandi ...Show more
Stanley Palmer East by Stanley Palmer
$85.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: Near Fine
East is a sampling of 136 of Stanley Palmer's works ranging across four decades. From early woodcuts through Palmer's unique bamboo engravings, to his delicate monoprints and evocative paintings, this extensive selection celebrates the work of one of our most-loved and prolific artists and also our own ...Show more
Natural New Zealand: The Landscapes, Animals and Plants of Aotearoa by Shaun Barnett
$19.99 NZD
$29.99 (33% off)
Category: New Zealand
Natural New Zealand is a celebration of this country's remarkable natural world. Crowded into the small islands of this isolated country is a wonderfully diverse range of landscapes - mountains, glaciers, volcanoes, fiords, lakes, rivers and thousands of kilometres of rugged coastline. These landscapes ...Show more
Mune - An Autobiography by Ian Mune
$49.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: Very Good
Ian Mune's resonant growl and his characterful face are an institution in the world of New Zealand theatre, film and TV. Instantly recognised by generations of New Zealanders, he has been a central figure of screen and stage in this country since the 1960s. Ian Mune grew up in Tauranga, and had an early ...Show more