A Life's Sentences by Gordon McLauchlan
39.95 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction | Reading Level: very good
This superbly well-written book is a memoir of the old school â part autobiography and part commentary. Gordon McLauchlan has some fascinating stories to tell about his life as a journalist and writer and about newspapers in the old days. He also writes about his family and, in particular, his fath ...Show more
Captured by Maori - White Female Captives, Sex and Racism on the Nineteenth-Century New Zealand Frontier by Trevor Bentley
36.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
The capture of white women by Maori in the nineteenth century was often accompanied by high hysteria and moral outrage. Trevor Bentley tells these women
Dave Gunson's New Zealand Wildlife by Dave Gunson
19.99 NZD
45.00 (55% off)
Category: NZ Non Fiction
This stunning book is wildlife painter Dave Gunson's personal tribute to New Zealand's incredibly diverse and remarkable natural world.Covering all the major environments, the book is arranged by habitat - The Coast, Estuaries, Wetlands, Open Country, The Forests, High Country, Urban - and shows new Zea ...Show more
A Short History of New Zealand by Gordon Maclauchlan
29.95 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction | Reading Level: very good
An authentic but informal and personal history of New Zealand, written to appeal to visitors, new citizens and students as well as the hundreds of Kiwis who want easy access to our history.
Undressed: Interviews with New Zealand Fashion Designers by Stacy Gregg
29.95 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
Out of print edition. The first book of its kind - a book about contemporary New Zealand fashion designers. New Zealand fashion leapt onto the world stage in 1999 when four designers - World, Nom.D, Zambesi and Karen Walker - put their clothes on the catwalk at London Fashion Week. What is it about N ...Show more
Ghost Dance by Douglas Wright
39.95 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Winner of the New Zealand Society of Authors E H McCormick Best Book Award for Non Fiction in the 2005 Montana New Zealand Book Awards Part love story, part memoir, Ghost Dance is a deeply felt meditation on the art of performance, on absence and on life itself. As in the best of Douglas Wright's dance- ...Show more
An Asian At My Table by Raybon Kan
29.95 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction | Reading Level: Very Good
Comedian Raybon Kan has been writing since before he could spell. In this hilarious greatest hits album, Raybon crawls hands and knees across the front lines of his worst fears. Tremble as he competes in an American game show. Swoon as he admires the world's most comfortable bra. Burrow as he explains t ...Show more
On the Beach : Where Kiwis Love to Play OP by Kevyn Male
34.95 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
New Zealanders love the beach, that special place associated with summer holidays and having fun, learning to swim and messing around at the water's edge. The iconic location of good times and happy memories, 'going to the beach' is deeply enshrined in the Kiwi way of life. It is the place where familie ...Show more
In A Strange Garden - The Life and Times of Truby King by Lloyd Chapman
34.95 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction | Reading Level: good
Truby King has touched the lives of most New Zealanders. Founder of the Plunket movement that led our mothers and grandmothers into military-style baby management, his influence is enormous. Although his extreme and restrictive views about women would be ridiculed today, he gave them a health regime tha ...Show more
Charlotte's Secrets by Charlotte Dawson
27.95 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
An honest look at some of the issues confronting young women today. Charlotte Dawson, all-round media goddess, has led a life crammed with glamorous highs and terrible lows, all lived through the pages of the popular press; intensely private details of her celebrity marriage break-up filled Australian p ...Show more
New Zealand from Space 2 by Rob Phillips
39.95 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Experience New Zealand from a unique vantage point with this compelling collection of stunning up-to-the-minute pictures taken from aircraft and satellites criss-crossing high above our beautiful country.
Tears of the Moon by Guo Sheng
27.95 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
During China's cultural revolution, young Guo Sheng's family is persecuted by the Red Guards and subjected to unspeakable violence. Brutal beatings and public humiliations become a daily occurrence. After the Revolution, Sheng falls in love with a boy from the other side: he and his family are Red Guard ...Show more