This Farming Life - Five generations on a New Zealand Farm by Tim Saunders
36.99 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Farmer Tim Saunders manages to incorporate some writing into his days, and here he describes his life through the seasons: Summer, shearing, slaughter, crop harvest, conservation; Autumn, floods, trading stock, drenching, dagging; Winter, maize harvest, lambing; and Spring, docking, pet sheep, weaning. ...Show more
The Quick and the Dead - True stories of life and death from a New Zealand pathologist by Cynric Temple-Camp
39.99 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Dr Cynric Temple-Camp's suspense-filled, often Gothic story-telling ability captivated readers in his debut book, The Cause of Death. In the Quick and the Dead, New Zealand's self-confessed aficionado of death is back with more mysterious illnesses, gruesome murders, baffling crimes, and the other curio ...Show more
Weed - A New Zealand Love Story by James Borrowdale
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
'I just closed my eyes and drifted away. I drifted away to the music but I don't think I'd ever experienced anything quite so soothing and magical. It was like I was in a magical space. It was beautiful.' - Jim Mahoney, reformed drug addict Pot, Mary Jane, dope, skunk, grass, hash, green, hooch, herb, g ...Show more
Pull No Punches - Memoir of a Political Survivor by Judith Collins
36.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biographies & Memoirs
A candid and revealing memoir from one of politics' great survivors - National MP, and leader of the opposition, Judith Collins.
The New New Zealand: Facing Demographic Disruption by Paul Spoonley
39.99 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
A BOLD NEW BOOK ON POPULATION TRENDS AND THE NEED TO CONFRONT THEM. In 2030 there may be six million of us. One and a half million of us will live overseas. We will be clustered in Auckland, dependent on migration, and worried about a shortage of workers. We havent planned for this. We need to. This ma ...Show more
Observations of a Rural Nurse by Sara Mcintyre
55.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Sara McIntyre, the daughter of the artist Peter McIntyre, was nine years old when her family first came to Kākahi, in the King Country, in 1960. The family has been linked to Kākahi ever since. On the family car trips of her childhood, McIntyre got used to her fathers frequent stops for subject matter f ...Show more
Not That I'd Kiss a Girl by Lil O'Brien
36.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: good-very good
A heartbreaking and hilarious true story of coming out as gay in New Zealand. Lil O'Brien accidentally outed herself to her parents at the age of nineteen when they overheard her talking to a friend about liking girls. Half an hour later she found herself on the side of the road, with instructions to co ...Show more
Ripiro Beach: A Memoir of Life After Near Death by Caroline Barron
34.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: near fine
Does DNA write our destinies? Or do the hands that nurture triumph over nature? What is it that determines who we really are? Caroline Barron's father never found his birth mother. After he dies suddenly on her twentieth birthday, Caroline develops an insidious fear of her own untimely death. When she n ...Show more
This Pakeha Life - An Unsettled Memoir by Alison Jones
39.99 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction | Reading Level: very good
This book is about my making sense here, of my becoming and being Pakeha. Every Pakeha becomes a Pakeha in their own way, finding her or his own meaning for that Maori word. This is the story of what it means to me. I have written this book for Pakeha - and other New Zealanders - curious about their sen ...Show more
The Climate Dispossessed -Justice for the Pacific in Aotearoa? (BWB Texts) by Teall Crossen
14.99 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: near fine
The world is heating up beyond the capacity of some countries to cope. Entire populations of Pacific islands are threatened, jeopardising the sovereign rights of these countries and the security of the region. This book explores what a just response to the risk of climate change displacement in the Paci ...Show more
Know Your Place by Golriz Ghahraman
39.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
The story of a child refugee who faced her fears, found her home and accidentally made history When she was just nine, Golriz Ghahraman and her parents were forced to flee their home in Iran. After a terrifying and uncertain journey, they landed in Auckland where they were able to seek asylum and - ulti ...Show more