Moa: the Dramatic Story behind the Discovery of a Giant Bird by Richard Wolfe
29.95 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The intriguing story of the controversy and personalities behind the discovery of the Moa in the nineteenth century. In 1839, on the basis of a single mysterious fragment of bone from the other side of the world, the great English anatomist Richard Owen reached the conclusion that it came from an unknow ...Show more
Private Paton's Pictures: Behind the Lines with Kiwi Soldiers in North Africa 1941-1943 by Harold Paton
34.95 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Harold PatonâÂÂs evocative Second World War photographs record the hardship, camaraderie and daily rituals of the North African and Syrian Campaigns of 1941âÂÂ1943. This is the book produced from an exhibition of photographs of Kiwis in the North Africa campaign, 1942-43, during the Second World W ...Show more
On the Water by The New Zealand Herald
34.95 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
Celebrates Auckland's enduring love affair with its harbour: people at work and at play, the beauty of nature and the striking results of human endeavour, and the waterfront yesterday and today.
The New Zealand Herald Guide to Auckland by The New Zealand Herald
14.95 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
A portable pocket-sized up-to-the-minute guide to what's happening in Auckland City; its attractions, scenery, accommodation, transportation and retail activities.
The Topp Twins Book OUT OF PRINT by Jools Topp
29.95 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
'Camp Mother', 'Camp Leader', the two 'Kens' - characters from deep in the New Zealand heartland from the irrepressible Jools and Lynda Topp. An illustrated book based on these and their other characters, includes recipes, jokes, yarns, tips for happy camp life and dozens of photographs. Trade Paperback ...Show more
One Day at a Time: How I Changed by Body and My Life by Suzanne Prentice
29.95 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
Suzanne Prentice has been in the public eye since her early teens when she dazzled the New Zealand entertainment world with the hit single 'Funny Face'. Regarded with great affection by her fans here and overseas, it is hard to imagine that this mult-plantinum, award winning performer had become an over ...Show more
Great Penguin Quiz Book by David Brechin-Smith
24.95 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
If you organise quizzes, take part in them, love general knowledge - or simply like to know stuff, The Great Penguin Quiz Book is for you. Questions are detailed and factual, and have been researched using leading reference sources. Six familiar categories - entertainment, geography, history, science, s ...Show more
An Inward Sun: The World of Janet Frame by Michael King
55.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction | Reading Level: very good
This accessible book features 120 photographs from the life of famous NZ writer Janet Frame, ranging from amazingly gothic family photos to new images of past homes and other significant locations. Accompanied by a lively text and Frame ephemera such as book covers, scribbled notes and even bus tickets. ...Show more
New Penguin Joke Book by Stephen Stratford
24.95 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
A joke book containing something to offend everybody!
Pavlova Paradise Revisited - A guide to the strange but endearing land where kiwis live by Austin Mitchell
27.95 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
In this book - and in the television documentary series that accompanies it - the very funny Austin Mitchell revisits the country he first dissected in the bestselling The Half-gallon Quarter-acre Pavlova Paradise years ago. Irreverent and hilarious but also sharp and penetrating, Pavlova Paradise Revis ...Show more
The Penguin Book of Eyewitness History by Bob Brockie
34.95 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
Dramatic first-hand accounts from New Zealand's history: A Kiwi survives the September 11 Attack. The Scott Watson Trial. When the Auckland lights went out. Baiting the French at Mururoa Atoll. The Share Market Crash. The 1981 Springbok Tour: from both sides. Mr Asia is rumbled. Saved from the sink ...Show more
At the Edge of Memory by Michael King
34.95 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A man turns up in New Zealand in the early years of the twentieth century as if out of nowhere. He admits to no past, only to a present and a future; and he reinvents himself as a Catholic businessman. But the pressure of keeping a secret, of having to live with a repressed truth, eventually becomes too ...Show more