An Indigenous Ocean: Pacific Essays by Damon Salesa
50.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non- fiction | Series: 1st
In this captivating collection of essays, acclaimed Pacific scholar Damon Salesa takes us on a journey through the rich cultural and historical tapestry of the Pacific. From the far-reaching indigenous civilisations that flourished in Oceania, to the colonial encounters that shaped Samoa's history, and ...Show more
Audition by Pip Adam
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
A finalist for the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards 2024 - The Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction. Audition is hurtling through space towards the event horizon. Squashed immobile into its rooms are three giants: Alba, Stanley and Drew. If they talk, the spaceship keeps moving; if they are silent, the ...Show more
A Better Place by Stephen Daisley
38.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
In a novel of stark and lyrical beauty, award-winning author Stephen Daisley portrays the brutal effects of war on two New Zealand brothers. The old people in the district would often say that Roy was not quite the same after he come back. There was a brother. A twin brother, Tony. Tony Mitchell, diff ...Show more
Lioness by Emily Perkins
37.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
You know how we say we devoured a story, and also that we were consumed by it? Eating and being eaten. It was like that with Claire, for me. From humble beginnings, Therese has let herself grow used to a life of luxury after marrying into an empire-building family. But when rumours of corruption gather ...Show more
Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton
38.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
Birnam Wood is on the move… A landslide has closed the Korowai Pass in New Zealand’s South Island, cutting off the town of Thorndike, leaving a sizable farm abandoned. The disaster presents an opportunity for Birnam Wood, a guerrilla gardening collective that plants crops wherever no one will notice. Bu ...Show more
Rugby League In New Zealand: A People's History by Ryan Bodman
60.00 NZD
Category: Sport
This is the story of a sport told through its communities. It is compelling – richly illustrated and full of vivid accounts of players, their lives, their triumphs and their contests on the field. Drawing on oral history interviews and a wide range of archival sources, Ryan Bodman locates rugby league ...Show more
Don Binney - Flight Path by Gregory O'Brien
90.00 NZD
Category: Art
Painter, printmaker, teacher, writer and ornithologist Don Binney (1940 - 2012) was a mercurial presence on the New Zealand cultural scene from the time of his meteoric rise to fame in the early 1960s. His unmistakable, stylised depictions of birds have come to define an era in the development of the na ...Show more
Root Leaf Flower Fruit - A Verse Novel by Bill Nelson
30.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
A woman lies helpless after a stroke, her family gathered. Her grandson, healing slowly from a head injury after coming off his bike, takes leave from his job and family to prepare her rundown house and farm for sale. As he works, he sifts through what remains of his grandmother’s daily life. Then, afte ...Show more
Ngatokimatawhaorua - The Biography of a Waka by Jeff Evans
50.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non- fiction
Ngatokimatawhaorua, the longest waka taua to be built in modern times, is a national taonga and resides at the Treaty Grounds at Waitangi. The inspiration for its construction came from Te Puea Harangi's dream to build seven waka for the 1940 centennial commemorations of the signing of the Treaty of Wai ...Show more
At The Point of Seeing by Megan Kitching
25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
At the Point of Seeing is the extraordinary debut collection from Ōtepoti Dunedin poet Megan Kitching. Poised, richly observant and deftly turned, Kitching’s poems bestow a unique attention upon the world. Her eye is finely attuned to the well-trodden yet overlooked – the places between ‘dirt and thumb’ ...Show more
Marilynn Webb: Folded in the Hills by Lauren Gutsell, Lucy Hammonds and Bridget Reweti
70.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non- fiction
Marilynn Webb: Folded in the hills is a substantial bilingual publication to mark the monumental retrospective of Ngāpuhi, Te Roroa and Ngāti Kahu artist Marilynn Webb (NZOM) (1937–2021) at Dunedin Public Art Gallery. It presents essays by curators Lucy Hammonds, Lauren Gutsell, and Bridget Reweti, ext ...Show more
Talia by Isla Huia
30.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Talia is the debut poetry collection from Isla Huia (Te Āti Haunui a-Pāpārangi, Uenuku). It is a critique of hometowns, an analysis of whakapapa, and a reclamation of tongue. It is an ode to the earth she stands on, and to a sister she lost to the skies. It is a manifesto for a future full of aunties an ...Show more