Checkmate!: The young player's complete guide to chess by John Foley
$22.99 NZD
Category: Craft & Hobbies
The perfect introduction to chess, whether you're a budding master or you've never played before. As well as a glossary of chess terms and profiles of some of the world's greatest players, there's also unusual trivia and unbelievable true chess stories from history. Chess is the ultimate fun strategy ga ...Show more
The After Hours Stylist - Growing, Gathering and Creating Through the Seasons by Kate Williams; Anna McLeod
$69.99 NZD
Category: NZ Art | Reading Level: very good
A love of nature and a need to celebrate what each season offers is at the heart of Kate Williams’ talent and passion for creativity and styling, while her popular floral workshops and garden tours at their rural Canterbury property are sell-out events. In The After-hours Stylist, Kate draws on years o ...Show more
250 Years Of New Zealand Painting by Gill Docking; Michael Dunn; Edward Hanfling
$99.99 NZD
Category: NZ Art | Reading Level: near fine
This landmark book on New Zealand artists and their work was first written by Gil Docking, published in 1971, extended to 1990 by art historian Michael Dunn, and again to 2020 by art historian, writer and lecturer Edward Hanfling. New design, with additional text by Edward Hanfling, including an introd ...Show more
Houseplant Oasis - A Guide to Caring for Your Plants + Styling Them in Your Home by Melissa Lo
$62.99 NZD
Category: Art, Style, Living
YOUR #1 RESOURCE FOR PLANT PARENTHOODStep into Melissa Lo's carefully curated and meticulously maintained world of houseplants. Here, you'll find detailed instructions for keeping your plants healthy, happy and thriving so you can transform your home into a lush, green oasis. With a long standing career ...Show more
Maori Moving Image by Melanie Oliver and Bridget Reweti (editors)
$34.90 NZD
Category: Maori
A beautifully designed new book that champions recent film, animation and video art made by Maori artists. Whether it be 16mm film, hand-drawn animation, 4K video or footage recorded on a phone, moving image artworks create a unique space for Maori artists to connect the forms, patterns and concepts of ...Show more
Hundertwasser in New Zealand - The Art of Creating Paradise by Andreas J Hirsch
$70.00 NZD
Category: NZ Art | Reading Level: near fine
'New Zealand is for me a kind of promised land.' Austrian-born artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser arrived in New Zealand in 1973, seeking refuge from a world out of kilter with nature. After travelling and exhibiting, he settled at Kaurinui, the land he bought and restored in the Bay of Islands. Wishing ...Show more
Better, Bolder, Different by Kate Hall
$39.99 NZD
Category: Art, Style, Living | Reading Level: near fine
Kate Hall, environmental activist and educator, shares her philosophy of joy-filled living with people and the planet in mind. All the daily decisions we make about clothes, food, transport, sleep, stuff, wellbeing and relationships can be tweaked to benefit not only the environment, but also ourselves ...Show more
Greenstone Carving: Techniques and Concepts in Pounamu by Len Gale
$39.99 NZD
Category: Craft & Hobbies
This concise guide to the art of greenstone carving, out of print for the past 20 years, returns in a smartly designed, fully illustrated new edition. Greenstone Carving takes readers from the origins of pounamu/greenstone through the basics of the artform - design, tools and techniques, different stone ...Show more
Heritage Paintings Tauponui a tia New Zealand by Raymond Val
$69.99 NZD
Category: NZ Art
Val Raymond was best known during the 1960s, 70s and 80s for her portraiture and Central North Island lanscapes. Inventing new watercolour techniques led to her artistic trsnaformation during the 1990s - painting exquisite "abstract expessions"that combine unusually different aspects of New Zealand heri ...Show more
Quirky New Zealand by Eleanor Black
$34.99 NZD
Category: Art, Style, Living
The quirkiest landmarks, features and installations from all over New Zealand. Each 'quirky' has a back story. Includes the Rainbow Staircase in Thames, Rose Bowl in Dannevirke, the musket bullet embedded in the bar at the Horeke Hotel and many more.
Untold Horror by Guillermo del Toro, Eli Roth, Takashi Miike
$70.00 NZD
Category: Art, Style, Living
Insightful interviews of horror legends Guillermo del Toro, Eli Roth, George Romero, Takashi Miike, and more, by former editor-in-chief of Rue Morgue, Dave Alexander, about the scariest horror movies never made! Take a behind-the-scenes look into development hell to find the most frightening horror movi ...Show more
Hoop N Loop - How to Embroider Your Pet Dog's Portrait by Carol Tai
$19.99 NZD
$32.99 (39% off)
Category: Craft & Hobbies
As we all know, pets are the best-loved members of the family; they are always there with a wagging tail, and, unless there's a sofa-scratching or shoe-chewing incident, we rarely have cause to argue with them. Such is people's love of their animals that accessories and clothing have become a booming bu ...Show more