kitten by Olive Nuttall
29.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
Rosemary, a trans girl, has many conflicting qualities. She’s super smart but flawed, polyamorous but timid, promiscuous but inexperienced. She’s surprising, and surprised by herself. A call that Rosemary’s grandmother is dying puts her on the bus from Te Whanganui-a-Tara back to Kirikiriroa. There, wit ...Show more
Te Ata o Tū: The Shadow of Tumatauenga by Matiu Baker, Katie Cooper, Michael Fitzgerald and Rebecca Rice (editors)
69.99 NZD
Category: NZ History
The New Zealand Wars of 1845-72 were a series of bitter and bloody conflicts between Maori and Pakeha that extended from Wairau to the Bay of Islands, and from Taranaki to the East Cape. They are as important to New Zealand as the civil wars were to England and to the United States. Land and sovereignty ...Show more
Short Films by Tate Fountain
24.99 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry
Short Films is a lush bouquet of poems. This stunning debut reads at times like a film script, a letter to a lover, or a series of richly pigmented vignettes. Desire blooms alongside a tender love of film, art, and literature. In this playful, punny book, Fountain experiments with form and feeling, with ...Show more
Spoiled Fruit: Queer Poetry from Aotearoa by Damien Levi, Amber Esau
29.99 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry
Spoiled Fruit is the debut title from micro press Āporo Press. This collection gathers 20 queer poets from across Aotearoa, compiles work largely first published on bad apple and asks these poets to reflect upon their work to create new pieces.Emerging from this introspection are themes of growth, evolu ...Show more
Plumb (Popular Penguin) by Maurice Gee
15.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
Long regarded as one of the finest novels ever written by a New Zealander, Maurice Gee's Plumb introduces us to the intolerant, irascible clergyman George Plumb, one of the most memorable characters in New Zealand literature &- half saint, half monster, superhuman in his spiritual strength and destr ...Show more
Mister Pip (Popular Penguin) by Lloyd Jones
15.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
In a novel that is at once intense, beautiful, and fablelike, Lloyd Jones weaves a transcendent story that celebrates the resilience of the human spirit and the power of narrative to transform our lives. On a copper-rich tropical island shattered by war, where the teachers have fled with most everyone e ...Show more
The Denniston Rose (Popular Penguin) by Jenny Pattrick
15.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
The bleak coal-mining settlement of Denniston, isolated high on a plateau above New Zealand's West Coast, is a place that makes or breaks those who live there. At the time of this novel - the 1880s - the only way to reach the makeshift collection of huts, tents and saloons is to climb aboard an empty co ...Show more
Vikings of the Sunrise by Te Rangi Hiroa; Paora Tapihana (Foreword by)
49.99 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
One of the greatest books ever written about the peopling of the Pacific, Te Rangi Hiroa's masterpiece interweaves oral history, scholarship and personal reflections to recount the movements of seafarers from East Asia to the furthest corners of Polynesia. Out of print for many decades, Vikings of the S ...Show more
Epic: Adventures Across Aotearoa (HB) by Ray Salisbury
49.99 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
New Zealand is a country synonymous with epic adventure. Over the years, countless sea kayakers, climbers and alpine trampers have attempted journeys across its stunning landscape, and many more dream of following in their tracks. In Epic, the stories of a dozen memorable Kiwi explorers are brought toge ...Show more
A Photographic Guide to Ferns of New Zealand by Lawrie Metcalf
27.99 NZD
Category: NZ Field Guides
A reprint under a new ISBN, this handy reference guide is a compact yet comprehensive guide to identifying and learning about New Zealand's ferns.Ferns occur in great abundance in New Zealand - there are nearly 200 native species alone occurring everywhere from the coast through to the country's alpine ...Show more
Knowledge is a Blessing on Your Mind: Selected Writings, 1980-2020 by Anne Salmond
64.99 NZD
Category: NZ History
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
Bird Life by Anna Smaill
37.99 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
Bird Life, the second novel by Booker Prize-longlisted author Anna Smaill, is a lyrical and ambitious exploration of madness and what it is like to experience the world differently. In Ueno Park, Toyko, as workers and tourists gather for lunch, the pollen blows, a fountain erupts, pigeons scatter, and ...Show more