Knowledge is a Blessing on Your Mind: Selected Writings, 1980-2020 by Anne Salmond
$65.00 NZD
Category: NZ
For fifty years, Dame Anne Salmond has navigated 'te ao hurihuri' - travelling to hui in her little blue VW Beetle with Eruera and Amiria Stirling in the 1970s, working for a university marae alongside Merimeri Penfold, Patu Hohepa and Wharetoroa Kerr in the 1980s, giving evidence to the Waitangi Tribun ...Show more
Untouchable Girls : The Topp Twins' Story by Lynda Topp, Jools Topp
$49.99 NZD
Category: NZ
The incredible story of how a couple of country kids from Huntly became much-loved Kiwi icons and TV stars, with their own unique brand of original country music and comedy that has captivated audiences in New Zealand and overseas for over 40 years. Jools and Lynda Topp aka The Topp Twins tell this stor ...Show more
Out Here: An Anthology of Takatāpui and LGBTQIA+ Writers from Aotearoa by Chris Tse & Emma Barnes (Editors)
$50.00 NZD
Category: NZ | Reading Level: near fine
A remarkable anthology of queer New Zealand voices. We became teenagers in the nineties when New Zealand felt a lot less cool about queerness, and gender felt much more rigid. We knew instinctively that hiding was the safest strategy. But how to find your community if you’re hidden? Aotearoa is a land o ...Show more
Uncoupling - An insider's guide to separation in New Zealand by Barbara Relph
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ | Reading Level: very good
Whether you are uncoupling from a relationship, or find yourself suddenly uncoupled, this book answers many questions to help you navigate the challenges of separation, helping you move through each step and into the next phase of your life. Using personal experience and knowledge from experts, Uncoupli ...Show more
James Courage Diaries by Chris Brickell
$45.00 NZD
Category: NZ | Reading Level: near fine
New Zealand author James Courage was born in Christchurch in 1903, and he became aware of his homosexuality during his adolescent years. He moved to London in 1927 and began writing novels, plays, poems and short stories. He was much more sexually open than most of his homosexual writer contemporaries F ...Show more
Tikanga: Living with the traditions of te ao Māori by Francis Tipene, Kaiora Tipene
$39.99 NZD
Category: NZ
The stars of The Casketeers on how to live a fulfilling life, rich with tikanga. Following on from the bestseller Life as a Casketeer, Francis and Kaiora Tipene share how they bring the traditional values of tikanga Māori into day-to-day living and what they learnt about the concepts of te ao Māori grow ...Show more
Auē (Aue) by Becky Manawatu
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ | Reading Level: near fine
Taukiri was born into sorrow. Auē can be heard in the sound of the sea he loves and hates, and in the music he draws out of the guitar that was his father’s. It spills out of the gang violence that killed his father and sent his mother into hiding, and the shame he feels about abandoning his eight-year- ...Show more
One Minute Crying Time by Barbara Ewing
$39.99 NZD
Category: NZ | Reading Level: very good
This vivid memoir by well-known New Zealand actor and novelist Barbara Ewing covers her tumultuous childhood, adolescence and young-adulthood in Wellington and Auckland in the 1950s and early 1960s - a very different time - and ends in 1962, when she boards a ship for London, to study at the Royal Acade ...Show more
All Who Live On Islands by Rose Lu
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ
All Who Live on Islands introduces a bold new voice in New Zealand literature. In these intimate and entertaining essays, Rose Lu takes us through personal history a shopping trip with her Shanghai-born grandparents, her career in the Wellington tech industry, an epic hike through the Himalayas to explo ...Show more
Kieran Read: Straight 8 The Autobiography by SCOTTY STEVENSON
$39.99 NZD
$49.99 (20% off)
Category: NZ
Kieran Read first played for the All Blacks as a 23-year old in 2008 and since then has amassed more than a century of test appearances in the famous jersey. Now, after a stellar provincial, club, and international career including back to back World Cup victories the New Zealand captain writes openly a ...Show more
Every Morning So Far, I'm Alive by Wendy Parkins
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ | Reading Level: very good
Every morning, so far, I’m alive is about what it’s like to live in a world where shaking a stranger’s hand, catching a taxi or touching a door handle are fraught with fear and dread. This memoir charts the author’s breakdown after migrating from New Zealand to England: what begins as homesickness and c ...Show more
Kim Workman - Journey towards justice by Kim Workman
$49.99 NZD
Category: NZ | Reading Level: near fine
Kim Workman is a central figure in the ongoing discussion of justice and prison policy in New Zealand. This memoir presents his rich narrative of a life lived through periods of personal and political change and upheaval. It tells his remarkable story: from early years growing up in the Wairarapa to wor ...Show more