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.
Strangers Arrive - Emigres and the Arts in New Zealand 1930-1980 by Leonard Bell
75.00 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: very good
From the 1930s through the 1950s, a substantial number of forced migrants - refugees from Nazism, displaced people after World War II and escapees from Communist countries - arrived in New Zealand from Europe. Among them were an extraordinary group of artists and writers, photographers and architects wh ...Show more
Games & dances of the Maori People by Alan Armstrong
29.99 NZD
Category: Maori Tikanga
2nd Edition
Kiwi: A Natural History by Isabel C. Castro
29.99 NZD
Category: NZ Nature | Series: Family Guide to New Zealand Wildlife
New Zealand's best-known bird and national icon is the subject of this new and highly accessible title from two experts in their field. There are five recognised species of kiwi, distributed unevenly in locations throughout New Zealand and ranging from the most widespread - the North Island brown kiwi - ...Show more
Guinness Down Under by Smith Rod
49.99 NZD
Category: NZ History
Guinness is a name instantly recognised the world over -- the famous stout has been brewed at St James's Gate in Dublin for over 250 years, and is now brewed under contract in fifty countries and 9 million glasses of Guinness are drunk each day worldwide. Guinness family members, originally in three maj ...Show more