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Birds of New Zealand: Collective Nouns by Melissa Boardman
$30.00 NZD
Category: Writing, Language
A beautifully illustrated book featuring New Zealand Aotearoa's native birds, each with its very own collective noun. A tussock of takahe? A hoon of kaka? A whistling of whio? This beautifully illustrated book of collective noun names for our native birds reveals something unique about their cha ...Show more
My Many Coloured Days by Dr. Seuss
$21.99 NZD
Category: Culture & Life
Some days are yellow. Some are blue. On different days I'm different too. Dr Seuss takes the reader on a journey through the many different moods that can be experienced in life.
Bill Birch: Minister of Everything by Brad Tattersfield
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography
Bill Birch was the quiet achiever of New Zealand politics. A trusted lieutenant to Prime Ministers Muldoon, Bolger and Shipley, Birch was at the heart of the action across a turbulent quarter-century of political and social change. From Think Big and the Employment Contracts Act to overhauls of immigrat ...Show more
Have You Eaten Grandma? by Gyles Brandreth
$30.00 NZD
Category: Writing, Language
The go-to good English guide from the grammar guru himself, Gyles Brandreth . . . __________ Why, like, does everyone keep saying 'like'? Why do apostrophe's keep turning up in the wrong place? Why do we get confused when using foreign phrases - and vice versa? Is it 'may be' or 'maybe'? Should it b ...Show more
This Is Not How It Ends: How Rewriting your Story can Save Your Life by Jehan Casinader
$35.00 NZD
Category: Biography
A BOOK OF HEALING AND HOPE BY NEW ZEALAND TV JOURNALIST JEHAN CASINADER As an award-winning TV journalist, Jehan Casinader told other people's stories - until he lost control of his own. Severely depressed, he tried everything - from mindfulness to massage; Prozac to Pilates. Was something missing? Th ...Show more
Diary of a Young Naturalist by Dara McAnulty
$37.00 NZD
Category: Sports, Hobbies, Outdoors
Winner of the 2020 Wainwright Prize for UK Nature Writing. Diary of a Young Naturalist chronicles the turning of 15-year-old Dara McAnulty's world. From spring and through a year in his home patch in Northern Ireland, Dara spent the seasons writing. These vivid, evocative and moving diary entries abo ...Show more
One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time by Craig Brown
$36.99 NZD
Category: Music
From the award-winning author of Ma’am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret comes a fascinating, hilarious, kaleidoscopic biography of the Fab Four.On April 10th 2020, it will be exactly 50 years since Paul McCartney announced the break-up of the Beatles. At that point, we will be at the same dista ...Show more
The Haunting of Alma Fielding: A True Ghost Story by Kate Summerscale
$33.00 NZD
Category: Biography
'A page-turner with the authority of history' PHILIPPA GREGORY'As gripping as a novel. An engaging, unsettling, deeply satisfying read' SARAH WATERSLondon, 1938. Alma Fielding, an ordinary young woman, begins to experience supernatural events in her suburban home. Nandor Fodor - a Jewish-Hungarian refug ...Show more
Intimations: Six Essays by Zadie Smith
$15.99 NZD
Category: Culture & Life
Deeply personal and powerfully moving, a short and timely series of essays on the experience of lockdown, by one of the most clear-sighted and essential writers of our time From the critically acclaimed author of Feel Free, Swing Time, White Teeth and many more 'There will be many books written about ...Show more
A Life on Our Planet by David Attenborough
$45.00 NZD
Category: Sports, Hobbies, Outdoors
See the world. Then make it better. 'I am 93. I've had an extraordinary life. It's only now that I appreciate how extraordinary. As a young man, I felt I was out there in the wild, experiencing the untouched natural world - but it was an illusion. The tragedy of our time has been happening all around us ...Show more
The Little Book of Shit Baby Names - And Other Pearls of Parenting Wisdom by Orange Orange Hippo!
$14.99 NZD
Category: Lifestyle | Series: The\Little Book Of... Ser.
The perfect parenting companion... Not suitable for children. Mums and Dads have always yearned for a rule book, a hitchhikers' guide if you will, that spelled out for them how to raise their children properly so they grow up to be well-rounded, decent and likeable adults. Well, that book doesn't exist. ...Show more
The Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Mary Seacole
$20.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands is a wonderfully entertaining autobiography by Mary Seacole - nurse, entrepreneur and intrepid traveller. Soon to be a major motion picture starring GuGu Mbatha-Raw.Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized ...Show more