Meet You at the Main Divide - A family's story of life on Lake Hawea Station by Geoff Ross; Justine Ross
49.99 NZD
Category: NZ General Non Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Authors of Every Bastard Says No on giving up their city life for a high-country station in Central Otago In Meet You at the Main Divide, innovators, disrupters, and authors of Every Bastard Says No share the challenge of a lifetime: leaving behind their Herne Bay mansion to farm 10,000 merino sheep on ...Show more
TV and te Tiriti: Key Factors in Aotearoa's Bicultural Surge by D. Brent Leslie
39.99 NZD
Category: NZ General Non Fiction
TV and TE TIRITI – key factors in Aotearoa’s bicultural surge surveys Māori-Pākehā relations from the Treaty of Waitangi signing in February 1840 to the end of 2022. Its author, D. Brent Leslie, was a writer/director on Koha, the first regular television programme featuring Māori issues, when it began i ...Show more
Mad on Meth - How New Zealand Got Hooked on P by Benedict Collins
39.99 NZD
Category: NZ General Non Fiction
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
The Dressmaker and the Hidden Soldier by Doug Gold
37.99 NZD
Category: NZ General Non Fiction
The true story of an escaped soldier hiding out in the house of a Greek dressmaker who is secretly a resistance fighter. It's an epic love story against the odds, set during the Nazi occupation of Greece in WW2. Peter Blunden, a New Zealand soldier captured in Crete, jumps from a train and escapes from ...Show more
Fungi of Aotearoa: A Curious Forager's Field Guide by Liv Sisson
45.00 NZD
Category: NZ Nature
The complete introduction to finding, identifying and using mushrooms and other fungi in New Zealand. Enter and explore the fascinating world of fungi. In this practical and up-to-date guide, forager and fungus enthusiast Liv Sisson shares her top tips and takes the reader on a journey to discover the ...Show more
Gangland - New Zealand's Underworld of Organised Crime by Jared Savage
39.99 NZD
Category: NZ General Non Fiction | Reading Level: very good
New Zealand's underworld of organised crime and deadly gangs New Zealand is now one of the most lucrative illicit drug markets in the world. Organised crime is about making money. It's a business. But over the past 20 years, the dealers have graduated from motorcycle gangs to Asian crime syndicates and ...Show more
The Crewe Murders: Inside New Zealand’s Most Infamous Cold Case by Kirsty Johnston, James Hollings
45.00 NZD
Category: NZ General Non Fiction
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
Gangster's Paradise by Jared Savage
39.99 NZD
Category: NZ General Non Fiction
The much anticipated follow-up to the bestseller that exposed the escalation of organised crime in New Zealand. Gangster's Paradise is about drugs, guns, gangs and money. Lots of money. A gang which took over a small rural town. A police officer shot and killed in a routine traffic stop. A port-worker ...Show more
From the Pilot's Seat: Kiwi Adventurers in the Sky by Fletcher McKenzie
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ General Non Fiction
Enthralling tales from New Zealand pilots - both men and women - who fly a variety of aircraft around the world in a range of situations, from the domestic to the heart-stopping. Aviation safety expert and keen pilot Fletcher McKenzie has interviewed 23 Kiwi pilots who have worked around the world and ...Show more
Kiwi Garages by George Lockyer
45.00 NZD
Category: NZ General Non Fiction
Ever wondered what Kiwis get up to in their garages? Kiwi Garages celebrates the can-do culture, lifting the doors of over 30 self-styled Kiwi garages from tinkerers and collectors to top-of-the-range techno dreamers. A modern take on Blokes in Sheds 30-plus Kiwi garages profiled from across provincial ...Show more
50 years, 50 stories: Marlborough the region that turned the wine world upside down
75.00 NZD
Category: NZ General Non Fiction
Artists in Antarctica by Patrick Shepherd (editor)
80.00 NZD
Category: NZ General Non Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
What transformation happens when writers, musicians and artists stand in the vast, cold spaces of Antarctica? This book brings together paintings, photographs, texts and musical scores by Aotearoa New Zealand artists who have been to the ice. It explores the impact of this experience on their art and ar ...Show more