Anything You Can Imagine: Peter Jackson and the Making of Middle-Earth by Ian Nathan
45.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The definitive history of Peter Jackson's Middle-earth saga, Anything You Can Imagine takes us on a cinematic journey across all six films, featuring brand-new interviews with Peter, his cast & crew. From the early days of daring to dream it could be done, through the highs and lows of making the fi ...Show more
Bono - Rescue Cat Who Helped Me Find My by Helen Brown
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir
Having survived a brush with cancer, Helen Brown, happily married with three grown children, took stock of her comfortable suburban life and found it wanting. So when she was invited to visit New York, the city that never sleeps, she seized the day and accepted. Perhaps, she mused, she might never retur ...Show more
Many a Muddy Morning by Mark Warren
36.99 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
The off-roading, hillseeking and muddymorning adventures of farming legend Mark Warren. Mark Warren is a larger-than-life character of rural New Zealand. He grew up with an obsession with Land Rovers, council tip trucks, bulldozers, hill-country tractors, snow-plows - basically anything with four wheels ...Show more
Short Fat Chick to Marathon Runner 10th Anniversary Edition by Kerre Woodham; Gareth Brown (As told to)
39.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir
A Way With Words: A memoir of writing and publishing in New Zealand by Chris Maclean
49.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: Very Good
From an early age, author and publisher Chris Maclean was told he had a way with words. This talent, which protected him from school bullies and made him a proficient debater, later became the focus of his professional life. Since the 1980s he has written a dozen non-fiction books, publishing many of th ...Show more
Young Queen by Parris Goebel
34.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir
Crazy. Bold. Fearless. Parris Goebel was destined to make her mark. Young Queen is the autobiography of a dancer with a dream . . . a young Polynesian girl who grew up in New Zealand and went on to conquer the hip hop world. In this honest memoir, Parris Goebel shares the extraordinary story of how s ...Show more
Scoundrels & Eccentrics of the Pacific by Dunmore John
45.99 NZD
Category: NZ History
Scoundrels & Eccentrics of the Pacific is a new title delving into the adventurers who once made the great Pacific their playground ¿ from likeable dreamers to outright conmen, slavers and pirates, and even one self-titled Queen Emma. There¿s the extraordinary tale of James Proctor who used his wood ...Show more
Te Koparapara by Reilly Michael Carter Lyn
69.99 NZD
Category: Maori Tikanga
Ka rite te kopara e ko nei i te ata It is like a bellbird singing at dawn. Like the clear morning song of te koparapara, the bellbird, this book aims to allow the Maori world to speak for itself through an accessible introduction to Maori culture, history and society from an indigenous perspective. In t ...Show more
The Hunters: The Precarious Lives of New Zealand's Birds of Prey by Debbie Stewart
50.00 NZD
Category: NZ Nature | Reading Level: very good
From an extinct giant eagle and an owl that sounded like the devil, to the morepork we hear calling at night, the falcon that appears on our $20 note and the hawks we see swooping on the grisly remains of dead critters on the road, this book takes a close look at these fascinating birds and the people w ...Show more
Dear Oliver by Peter Wells
39.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
When writer and historian Peter Wells found a cache of family letters amongst his elderly mother's effects, he realised that he had the means of retracing the history of a not-untypical family swept out to New Zealand during the great nineteenth-century human diaspora from Britain. His family experience ...Show more
Wanted - The Search for the Modernist Murals of E. Mervyn Taylor by Bronwyn Holloway-Smith (ed.)
79.99 NZD
Category: NZ Art | Reading Level: very good
Mervyn Taylor - wood engraver, painter, illustrator, sculptor and designer - was one of the most celebrated New Zealand artists of the 1930s to 1960s. He was highly connected to modernism and nationalism as it was expressed in New Zealand art and literature of the period. In the 1960s he created twelve ...Show more
Kiwi Speak by Justin Brown
22.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Do you speak Nu Zild? In Kiwi Speak , bestselling author Justin Brown eavesdrops at the dinner table, the school yard, the farm and the sports club to bring us an entertaining dictionary of phrases and expressions - the often hilarious, sometimes baffling New Zealandisms we use in everyday life.