Convicts: New Zealand's Hidden Past by Matthew Wright
$40.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand
New Zealand's Pakeha origin as a bolt-hole for convicts escaping Australia, a place where former convicts joined whaling and sealing gangs, and where sea captains thumbed their noses at the law, has been quietly forgotten. It has become a hidden part of our past, buried under the convenient fiction that ...Show more
Rivals: Sport’s Greatest Battles by Phil Gifford
$34.99 NZD
$39.99 (12% off)
Category: New Zealand
Sport by its very nature breeds competition, and competition breeds rivalries that become the stuff of legend. This book explores key rivalries between New Zealand sportsmen and their international competitors, as well as great rivalries on an international stage. These include John McEnroe and Bjorn Bo ...Show more
A Southern Woman's Kitchen by Joan Bishop
$39.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand
In The Southern Woman's Cookbook Joan Bishop has collected the recipes that she uses most often when cooking for her family and friends. As she says, 'sharing food with friends and family is the way we celebrate not only the big occasions but the everyday. We can make any small event seem special by the ...Show more
Back to the Land: A Year of Country Gardening by Lynda Hallinan
$45.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand
THIS TITLE IS CURRENTLY OUT-OF-PRINT. IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN OBTAINING A COPY PLEASE USE OUR CONTACT TAB AND WE WILL NOTIFY YOU AS SOON AS STOCK BECOMES AVAILABLE Gardening guru Lynda Hallinan grew up on a dairy farm in a blink-and-you'll-miss-it settlement in the Waikato. When she left the country as ...Show more
Awesome Aotearoa: Margaret Mahy's History of New Zealand by Margaret Mahy
$34.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand
At last, a history of New Zealand that children (and their parents) will want to read! Margaret Mahy, New Zealand's most acclaimed children's author, combines forces with cartoonist Trace Hodgson to tell the New Zealand story -- from Gondwana to Gallipoli, whaling to welfare state, kauri forests to koha ...Show more
A Stadium of Four Million by Martin Snedden
$39.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand
On the night of 23 October 2011, anxious fans endured the heart-stopping last minutes of the Rugby World Cup final as the All Blacks ground out a win by the narrowest of margins to again lift the Webb Ellis Cup. Watching in the stands was Martin Snedden, who had been charged with organising and deliveri ...Show more
Margaret Mahy: A Writer's Life by Tessa Duder
$39.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand
A literary portrait of New Zealand's best-loved children's author Margaret Mahy's death on 23 July 2012 brought forth an unprecedented outpouring of grief and heartfelt tributes from around New Zealand and the world. Her passing at 76 was breaking news in the media, unstoppable through the social networ ...Show more
Quotable New Zealand Quotes: Kiwi Wit & Wisdom for All Occasions by Jim Weir
$27.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand
Helen Brown, James Belich, Joe Bennett, Steve Braunias, Dan Carter, Helen Clark, Joy Cowley, Max Cryer, Karl du Fresne, Marc Ellis, Dai Henwood, Sam Hunt, Kevin Ireland, Lloyd Jones, Sir Bob Jones, Hamish Keith, John Key, Dame Fiona Kidman, Chris Laidlaw, Nigel Latta, Michael Laws, Sarah-Kate Lynch, Ric ...Show more
The Best of Philip Holden by Philip Holden
$19.99 NZD
$44.99 (55% off)
Category: New Zealand
Philip Holden was one of our best-loved authors. His first book, Pack and Rifle, was published in 1971 and detailed his adventures as a deer culler for the New Zealand Forestry service. Encouraged by his initial success he produced another two popular works, Hunter by Profession (1973) and Backblocks (1 ...Show more