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The Best of Best New Zealand Poems by Bill Manhire & Damien Wilkins (ed.)
$35.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: good
Since 2000, the online anthology Best New Zealand Poems has showcased the most exciting and memorable poetry produced in this country. Here, for the first time, is a selection of this work in book form. Edited by founding publisher Bill Manhire, and writer Damien Wilkins, this anthology is an indispensa ...Show more
The Best of e-Tangata by Tapu Misa (ed.); Gary Wilson (ed.)
$14.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: Very Good
The celebrated digital magazine e-Tangata is home to some of the most incisive and profound commentary on life in New Zealand. Maori, Pasifika and Pakeha writers grapple with topics that range from politics and social issues to history and popular culture. The best of these are collected together here i ...Show more
The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature by Dinah Birch (ed.)
$33.99 NZD
Category: Dictionaries, Language & Reference | Series: Oxford Paperback Reference
Based on the bestselling Oxford Companion to English Literature, this is an indispensable, compact guide to all aspects of English literature. Over 5,500 new and revised A to Z entries give unrivalled coverage of writers, works, historical context, literary theory, allusions, characters, and plot summar ...Show more
The Family Corleone by Ed Falco
$37.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
An all-new prequel to The Godfather, based on an unproduced screenplay by Mario Puzo. New York, 1933. The city and the nation are in the depths of the Great Depression. The crime families of New York have prospered in this time, but with the coming end of Prohibition, a battle is looming that will dete ...Show more
The Food Clock by Ed Halmagyi
$44.99 NZD
Category: Cooking & Cuisine
Most of us cook the same few dishes over and over again because we're busy and have lost our connection to the changes of the seasons. The Food Clock showcases food that is simple to prepare and makes the most of fresh, seasonal ingredients. Join Fast Ed Halmagyi on a culinary journey through a year in ...Show more
The Grand Tour - Letters and Photographs from the British Empire Expedition 1922 by Agatha Christie & Mathew Prichard (ed.)
$44.99 NZD
Category: Travel | Reading Level: very good
Unpublished for 90 years, Agatha Christie's extensive and evocative letters and photographs from her year-long round-the-world trip to South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and America as part of the British trade mission for the famous 1924 Empire Exhibition. In 1922 Agatha Christie set sail on ...Show more
The History of Mt Eden - The District and its People by Helen Laurenson (ed.)
$60.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Historical | Reading Level: very good
The History of Mount Eden: the district and its people brings together a fascinating record of the men and women, the places, stories and events that have helped to shape the suburb from the earliest pre-history of its distinctive geological formation until the present day. The importance of this fertil ...Show more
The History of Rock & Roll, Volume 1: 1920-1963 by Ed Ward
$34.99 NZD
Category: Music
Ed Ward covers the first half of the history of rock & roll in this sweeping and definitive narrative--from the 1920s, when the music of rambling medicine shows mingled with the songs of vaudeville and minstrel acts to create the very early sounds of country and rhythm and blues, to the rise of the ...Show more
The House of Islam by Ed Husain
$32.99 NZD
Category: Bibles & Religion
'Not just timely but important too. Ed Husain does not just set out the fundamentals of Islam as a religion but explains how and why understanding it properly matter. This should be compulsory reading' Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads A fascinating and revelatory exploration of the intricacies ...Show more
The John Lennon Letters by HUNTER DAVIES (ed)
$39.99 NZD
$59.99 (33% off)
Category: Music
John Lennon was a writer as well as a musician. It was entirely natural for him to put pen to paper whenever he had an idea, a thought, a reaction or a desire to communicate. He lived - and died - in an age before emails and texts. Pen and ink was what he turned to. John wrote letters and postcards all ...Show more
The Kindness of Strangers 3 by Don George (ed)
$26.99 NZD
Category: Travel | Series: Lonely Planet Travel Literature
Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher* A timely collection of 26 inspiring tales, The Kindness of Strangers explores the unexpected human connections that so often transfigure and transform the experience of travel, and celebrates the gift of kindness around the world. Featuring stor ...Show more
The Letters of John F. Kennedy by Martin W. Sandler (ed)
$49.99 NZD
Category: History
John Fitzgerald Kennedy led the United States for barely a thousand days, and yet he is regarded as one of the great Presidents of all time for his brave decisions on civil rights and international relations, and not merely as a consequence of his tragic fate. Kennedy steered his nation away from the br ...Show more