New Zealand Bird Calls [Listen with a QR Code] by Lynette Moon
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
New Zealand is known for its birds, and the melodic quality of their song. Here is a selection of 60 of the most popular, important or interesting birds. In New Zealand Bird Calls, each bird entry includes information about habitat, distribution, appearance and behaviour of the bird, along with a descri ...Show more
Hine Toa: A Story of Bravery by Ngahuia Te Awekotuku
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
An incredible memoir by a trailblazing voice in women's, queer and Maori liberation movements. In the 1950s, a young Ngahuia is fostered by a family who believe in hard work and community. Although close to her kuia, she craves more: she wants higher education and refined living. But whanau dismiss her ...Show more
The Revenge of the Tooth Fairy (#1 Mallory, Mallory) by James Norcliffe
18.00 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction
When Mallory and her sidekick Arthur kidnap the tooth fairy, they get more than they bargained for in this sparkling fantasy adventure novel for children. Mallory is a nasty piece of work. Her one friend is Arthur, who only puts up with her because he has no one else. When Mallory loses a tooth, she co ...Show more
The Sun Is a Star - A Voyage Through the Universe by Dick Frizzell
45.00 NZD
Category: NZ Picture Books
AN ENCHANTING BOOK ABOUT OUR GALAXY BY MUCH-LOVED PAINTER DICK FRIZZELL 'The universe - and everything in it - is always expanding into tomorrow . . . What a scene, eh? More magic than magic. Magic, mysterious and beautiful. And here we are. On the third rock from the sun, figuring it out.' In this ench ...Show more
Vā: Stories from Women of the Moana (Va) by Sisilia Eteuati and Lani Young (eds)
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Adult Fiction
Creative fiction from thirty-eight Oceania women writers, including Wahine Maori. Stories that tell Covid how we really feel, where a Centipede God watches on with wry humour and wrath, where a sexy Samoan goes on a hot Tinder date in Honolulu, where a New Zealand doctor is horrified to be stuck at her ...Show more
A Good Winter by Gigi Fenster
37.00 NZD
Category: NZ Adult Fiction
Winner of the 2020 Michael Gifkins Prize, A Good Winter is a simmering literary thriller by a highly accomplished NZ writer I looked after Lara. We both looked after Sophie and her baby. We had to. It's not like Sophie was going to look after that baby herself. All she was interested in was weeping and ...Show more
The Jillion 2: By New Zealand's Young Writers and Artists (selections from Toitoi issues 13-24) by edited by Charlotte Gibbs
45.00 NZD
Category: Treasury Collections & Special Editions | Series: The Jillion
The Jillion 2 has landed! An inspirational 300-page hardcover collection of some of the most amazing writing and art from Toitoi 13-24 – it even has ribbons so that everyone in the family can mark their favourite pages! The fantastic cover illustration is by Jasper Macknight-Wilson, age 11. As with it ...Show more
Holding The Horse (#1) by J. L. Williams
22.00 NZD
Category: NZ Senior Fiction | Series: Holding The Horse
I'll be famous. You'll see. The year is 1946, and in rural New Zealand fourteen-year-old Sid Everett dreams of glory on the racetrack. But why is his father determinedly blocking his every move? Sid's dad is back from WWII, but it's not the kind of homecoming the family had hoped for. Dad's return b ...Show more
The Deck by Fiona Farrell
37.00 NZD
Category: NZ Adult Fiction
During a time of plague and profound social collapse, a group of friends escape to a house in the country where they entertain themselves by playing music, eating, drinking and telling stories about their lives. The Deck borrows the motifs of Giovanni Boccaccio's 14th-century masterpiece The Decameron t ...Show more
Rainbow Warrior (My New Zealand Story) by Sharon Holt
21.00 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction
A re-release for a new audience, introducing a key event in NZ political history. The Rainbow Warrior was the flagship of the Greenpeace anti-nuclear movement, when it was sunk by agents of the French Foreign Intelligence (DGSE), while anchored in Auckland harbour, on the 10th of July 1985. In this My N ...Show more
How My Koro Became a Star (Kua Whetūrangitia a Koro Te Reo Pākēha Edition HB) by Brianne Te Paa
27.00 NZD
Category: NZ Picture Books
In this picture book, a young boy learns about the customs around celebrating Matariki from his grandfather. They watch the stars from the top of a mountain, prepare their offering of food for the gods, and the boy learns about Te Waka o Rangi and the tradition of calling out the names of loved ones who ...Show more
A Canoe Before the Wind: An Immigrant Son's Story of Family, Adversity and Courage by Vitale Lafaele
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
An extraordinary memoir of an immigrant son's story of a better future. In 1962, a Samoan family journeyed to New Zealand - a country immigrants once called 'the land of milk and honey' - in search of a better life. Instead, their eldest son, Vitale, arrived in an era of dawn raids by police and immigr ...Show more