Laughing at the Dark by Barbara Else
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography
'My own first memory is the cupboard door, and laughing, erupting with laughter' - a memoir about finding an identity, a voice and laughter. A funny, elegant, moving memoir by one of New Zealand's best-known authors, a woman who finally rebelled against being a handmaiden. By the time Barbara Else was ...Show more
We Don't Serve Maori Here: A Recent History of Māori Racism in New Zealand by Robert Bartholomew
$29.99 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
Based on historical archives & firsthand interviews, it is a history that, until now, has not been taught in our schools. While students usually learn about the Treaty of Waitangi & early encounters with the first European settlers, more needs to be taught on recent cases of discrimination durin ...Show more
Amorangi and Millie's Trip Through Time by Lauren Keenan
$26.00 NZD
Category: NZ Children
Amorangi and Millie lost their mum. Their only clue to her whereabouts is a carving on a tree that says "I’m in the past! Rescue me!". To do this, Amorangi and Millie must travel up every branch of their family tree and collect an object from each ancestor they meet. They must then be back in the modern ...Show more
No Maori Allowed - New Zealand's Forgotten History of Racial Segregation by Robert Bartholomew
$28.95 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
There was a time when Maori were barred from public toilets, segregated at the cinema & swimming pools, refused alcohol, haircuts & taxi rides, forced to stand for white bus passengers and not allowed to attend school with other students. It happened in the South Auckland town of Pukekohe. Using ...Show more
Katherine Mansfield's Europe - Station to Station by Redmer Yska
$49.99 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
Beautifully written and illustrated with maps and stunning photography, Katherine Mansfield's Europe is part travelogue, part literary biography, part detective story and part ghost story. Guided by Mansfield's journals and letters, Redmer Yska traces her restless journey in Europe, seeking out the pla ...Show more
The Book of Sisters: Biographies of Incredible Siblings Through History by Olivia Meikle & Katie Nelson
$22.99 NZD
Category: NZ Children
Biographies of Incredible Siblings Through History Queens. Warriors. Witches. Revolutionaries. History is full of sisters making their mark. Meet incredible women in this non-fiction book for kids, from Queen Elizabeth II and Princess Margaret to tennis superstars Venus and Serena Williams. Podcasters ( ...Show more
Always Italicise: How to Write While Colonised by Alice Te Punga Somerville
$24.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
A first book of poetry from acclaimed Māori writer and scholar Alice Te Punga Somerville. Shrink-wrapped, vacuum-packed, disassembled, sold for parts,butt of jokes, scapegoats, too this for that, too that for this,gravy trains, too angry, special treatment, let it go . . . ‘Always italicise foreign wor ...Show more
Robin White: Something Is Happening Here by Sarah Farrar; Nina Tonga; Jill Trevelyan
$70.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
Robin White: Something is happening here is the first book to be devoted to Robin White's art in 40 years. Its assessment of her remarkable 50 years as an artist includes fresh perspectives by 24 writers and interviewees from Australia, the Pacific, and Aotearoa New Zealand and celebrates her status as ...Show more
Jumping Sundays - The Rise and Fall of the Counterculture in Aotearoa New Zealand by Nick Bollinger
$49.99 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
Award-winning writer Nick Bollinger’s deep history of the transformation of New Zealand life wrought by the counterculture in the 1960s and ’70s.On a Sunday afternoon in the spring of 1969, thousands of people defied Auckland city bylaws and came to party in Albert Park. A rock band played on the rotund ...Show more
Ocean for Kiwi Babies (Board) by Fraser Williamson
$15.99 NZD
Category: Picture Books, Early Learning
This beautiful, brightly illustrated board book introduces babies to the sea creatures of Aotearoa in English and in Maori.Let's go exploring under the sea in English and Maori.From the beaches and rocky coastline to under the waves around Aotearoa New Zealand, vibrant pictures introduce Kiwi babies to ...Show more
Phosphorescence by Julia Baird
$32.99 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
The national bestseller, Phosphorescence is a beautiful, intimate and inspiring investigation into how we can find and nurture within ourselves that essential quality of internal happiness - the 'light within' - which will sustain us even through the darkest times. WINNER OF THE ABIA BOOK OF THE YEAR ...Show more