Excommunicated - A multi-generational story of leaving the Exclusive Brethren by Craig Hoyle
40.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Books | Reading Level: near fine
A heart-wrenching multigenerational family memoir by an excommunicated member of the Exclusive Brethren. After coming out as gay as a teenager, Craig Hoyle was excommunicated from the New Zealand Exclusive Brethren. The conservative sect was everything he'd ever known - a childhood where television, po ...Show more
The Unsettled: Small Stories of Colonisation by Richard Shaw
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ History
WHAT IT MEANS TO OWN YOUR PAST After Richard Shaw published his acclaimed memoir The Forgotten Coast in 2021, he made contact with Pakeha with long settler histories who were coming to grips with the truth of their respective families' 'pioneer stories'. They were questioning the foundation of aggressi ...Show more
The Crewe Murders: Inside New Zealand’s Most Infamous Cold Case by Kirsty Johnston, James Hollings
45.00 NZD
Category: NZ History
The unsolved mystery of who killed Jeanette and Harvey Crewe in their Pukekawa farmhouse in 1970 continues to fascinate. It remains one of the most controversial cases in New Zealand legal history. The murders spawned two trials, two appeals, several books, a royal commission, a film, and - eventually - ...Show more
War Bride by Patricia Fenton
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ History
Grim, uplifting and funny, this fictionalised family saga weaves memories and historical records stemming from real-life stories of a Welsh girl and a Kiwi boy who would never have met, if it wasn’t for Hitler.
The Forager's Treasury by Johanna Knox
50.00 NZD
Category: NZ Natural History
A New Zealand guide to the art of foraging - a comprehensive guide to finding sustainable, free and fascinating plants. In the urban and rural wildernesses, there is an abundance of food just waiting to be discovered, if only you know what to look for. Foraged food is healthy, economical and sustainable ...Show more
The Bookseller at the End of the World by Ruth Shaw
39.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Books | Reading Level: very good
A rich, immersive, funny and heartbreaking memoir of the charming bookseller who runs two tiny bookshops in the remote village of Manapouri in Fiordland, in the deep south of New Zealand. Ruth Shaw weaves together stories of the characters who visit her bookshops, musings about her favourite books, and ...Show more
Tramping in Aotearoa : New Zealand's top 45 tracks by Shaun Barnett
50.00 NZD
Category: NZ Travel and Guides
‘Tramping in Aotearoa’ is New Zealand’s best-selling tramping guide, written by this country’s preeminent tramping author, Shaun Barnett. This fully revised edition features 45 of our most popular tramps with essential route information, the latest generation of overview maps, commentary and outstandin ...Show more
The Penguin History of Aotearoa New Zealand by Michael King
38.00 NZD
Category: NZ History
This bestselling book by the late Michael King is the unchallenged contemporary reference on the history of New Zealand. First published in 2003 and hailed as a triumph of careful research, wide reading and judicious assessment, it has been continuously in print for twenty years and has sold over 300,00 ...Show more
Mad on Meth - How New Zealand Got Hooked on P by Benedict Collins
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ History
The eye-opening evolution of crystal meth in New Zealand and what can be done about it Only fifty years ago in New Zealand, methamphetamine was a publicly prescribed drug used as widely as by housewives, shift workers, students, and anybody looking to party. Legal for decades, meth was about to undergo ...Show more
Secrets of the Sea: The Story of New Zealand's Native Sea Creatures by Robert Vennell
55.00 NZD
Category: NZ Natural History | Reading Level: near fine
An illuminating tour through the native sea creatures of Aotearoa, by the bestselling author of The Meaning of Trees. Secrets of the Sea is a fascinating introduction to New Zealand's fish and shellfish, weaving together history, biology and culture to reveal how these unique and intriguing creatures ha ...Show more
Encounters Across Time (BWB Texts) by Judith Binney
18.00 NZD
Category: NZ History
Description: 'Story telling is an art deep within human nature.' A timely collection of writings on history, from one of Aotearoa New Zealand's most distinguished scholars. These essays bring forth important questions for New Zealand history about autonomy, restoration and power that continue to reverbe ...Show more
Life on Fodder Farm - A Journey to Self Sufficiency by Rebecca Stewart
40.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Books
To get to the Stewart family's remote homestead, you head south from the heart of the King Country and take a 40-minute drive into the middle of nowhere.Life on Fodder Farm is their journey through a year living with the land. Each season brings changes to their lives, a fresh focus of what needs to be ...Show more