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
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
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
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
Pike River: The Crime and Cover Up
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
On November 19, 2010, an explosion rocked the underground Pike River mine in New Zealand. After a second explosion five days later, the 29 workers underground were declared dead. This was not a random accident: it was a crime caused by capitalism. Despite overwhelming evidence that Pike River Coal’s man ...Show more
Gaylene's Take - Her Life in New Zealand Film by Gaylene Preston
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography
From one of our very best filmmakers comes a memoir of filmmaking in Aotearoa New Zealand. Gaylene Preston has always sought out the stories that have not yet been told, and in this book she reveals the challenges and sometimes heartbreak that have come with that ambition. In both wide lens and close-up ...Show more
New Zealand Chili Handbook by Garry Sommerville
$24.99 NZD
Category: Cooking & Food
This useful handbook provides information about a good range of easy-to-grow chili peppers in New Zealand. Each variety is photographed in colour with information about planting, harvesting and storing, as well as any curative properties found in the plant or the fruit. In addition, the book contains a ...Show more
Wawata - Moon Dreaming by Hinemoa Elder
$30.00 NZD
Category: Culture & Life
Hina, the Maori moon goddess, has 30 different faces to help illuminate life's lessons - a different face and a different energy for each day of the month. And with her changing light, new insights are revealed. This book gives us the chance to connect to the ancient wisdom of the old people, who reach ...Show more
Yes, Minister: An Insider's Account of the John Key years by Chris Finlayson
$36.99 NZD
Category: Biography
An insightful and entertaining glimpse into what really made the John Key government one of the most successful conservative governments New Zealand has ever seen.