Ruby Tui - Straight Up by Ruby Tui
$36.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biography
This is Ruby Tui. An open, raw and honest account of her journey from a troubled and unstable childhood yearning for a better option in life to Olympic Champion and the world's best rugby sevens player. Ruby learned to rely on herself and her own strengths as a child, growing up without role models, in ...Show more
Shifting Grounds - Deep Histories of Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland by Lucy Mackintosh
$59.99 NZD
Category: NZ History
In a city that has forgotten and erased much of its history, there are still places where traces of the past can be found. Deep histories, both natural and human, have been woven together over hundreds of years in places across Tāmaki Makaurau / Auckland, forming potent sites of national significance. T ...Show more
Feijoa A story of obsession and belonging by Kate Evans
$39.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction (Adult)
Inspired by a personal obsession with this singular exotic fruit, Feijoa is a sweeping, global tale about the dance between people and plants - how we need each other, how we change each other, and the surprising ways certain species make their way into our imaginations, our stomachs, and our hearts. ...Show more
Whakawhetai: Gratitude - A Daily Bilingual Journal by Hira Nathan
$36.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction (Adult)
A beautiful bilingual gratitude journal to help improve your te reo and your life. Kia ū ki te pai, kia whai hua ai. Hold on to what is good and good things will follow. An inspirational, bilingual gratitude journal, based on the Māori holistic approach to health, hauora. Discover the four dimens ...Show more
Hiwa: Contemporary Māori Short Stories by Edited by Paula Morris and Darryn Joseph
$44.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
Hiwa is a vibrant, essential collection of contemporary Maori short stories, featuring twenty-seven writers working in English or te reo Maori. The writers range from famous names and award winners - Patricia Grace, Witi Ihimaera, Whiti Hereaka, Becky Manawatu, Zeb Nicklin - to emerging voices like Shel ...Show more
Kawai: For Such a Time As This by Monty Soutar
$39.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
This epic historical adventure tells the story of pre-colonial Aotearoa New Zealand like it's never been told before. A young Māori man, compelled to learn the stories of his ancestors, returns to his family marae on the east coast of the North Island to speak to his elderly grand-uncle, the keeper of t ...Show more
Pounamu Pounamu by Witi Ihimaera
$30.00 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction (Adult)
Pounamu Pounamu is classic Ihimaera and also classic New Zealand literature. First published in 1972, it was Witi's first book, which as he says in the new introduction 'fulfilled a childhood vow- to write about Maori using his own self and home place'. The vivid stories in this collection not only expl ...Show more
Tatau: Samoan Tattoo, New Zealand Art, Global Culture by Sean Mallon
$79.99 NZD
Category: Art, Music, Theatre and Dance
When Tatau was first published in 2010, Mark Adams' renowned images documenting a great Polynesian art tradition were a revelation. It told the story of the late Sulu'ape Paulo II, the pre-eminent figure of modern Samoan tattooing. A brilliantly innovative and often controversial man, he saw tatau as an ...Show more
The Call by Gavin Strawhan
$36.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
Winner of the Allen & Unwin Fiction Prize 2023 A brilliant debut crime novel centred on a 501 deportee gang, set in a remote coastal New Zealand townAfter surviving a brutal attack, Auckland cop DS Honey Chalmers has returned to her hometown to care for her mother. The remote coastal settlement of ...Show more
The Dad (Ladybird How It Works) by Jason Hazeley; Joel Morris
$21.00 NZD
Category: Parenting - Baby and Toddler | Series: Ladybirds for Grown-Ups
The PERFECT GIFT for that superhero, saint, figure of worship or, if none of those apply, your plain dear old dad. 'Shawn has set up his own firework display in the garden. "Those big displays are rubbish," he tells his son. "You can't see a thing." When Shawn's son has seen the firework, they will go b ...Show more
The Future by Naomi Alderman
$34.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
From the award-winning, bestselling author of The Power comes a white-knuckle tour de force and dazzling exploration of the world we have made and where we are going. The Future--as the richest people on the planet have discovered--is where the money is. The Future is a few billionaires leading the wo ...Show more
Amma by Saraid de Silva
$37.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
Singapore, 1951. When Josephina is a girl, her parents lock her in a room with the father of the boy to whom she's betrothed. What happens next will determine the course of her life for generations to come. New Zealand, 1984. Josephina and her family leave Sri Lanka for New Zealand. But their new home ...Show more