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The Mitfords : Letters Between Six Sisters by Charlotte Mosley (ed.)
$36.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Autobiography | Reading Level: good-very good
The never-before published letters of the legendary Mitford sisters, alive with wit, affection, tragedy and gossip: a charismatic history of the century's signal events played out in the lives of a controversial and uniquely gifted family. Nancy, the scalding wit who parlayed her family life into bestse ...Show more
The Moth and the Mountain: A True Story of Love, War and Everest (Maurice Wilson) by Ed Caesar
$26.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
The untold story of Britain's most mysterious mountaineering legend - Maurice Wilson - and his heroic attempt to climb Everest. Alone.In the 1930s, as official government expeditions set their sights on conquering Everest, a little-known World War I veteran conceived his own crazy, beautiful plan. He wo ...Show more
The Nature of Things - Poems from the New Zealand Landscape by James Brown (ed)
$34.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
The Nature of Things is a celebration of the relationship between poetry and the New Zealand landscape. It matches a wide range of poems that in some way evoke or describe our landscape with images from the pre-eminent New Zealand photographer Craig Potton. The poems have been selected and the introduct ...Show more
The New Zealand Oxford Paperback Dictionary by Tony Deverson (ed.)
$24.99 NZD
Category: reference | Series: NZ Dictionaries/Thesauruses/Reference Ser.
The brand-new second edition of <>The New Zealand Oxford Paperback Dictionary includes a wide range of distinctive New Zealand words and phrases, along with up-to-date coverage of the general, internationally shared English vocabulary. This large paperback dictionary offers all the benefits of a t ...Show more
The Puffin Treasury Of New Zealand Children's Stories by Jenni Keestra (ed.)
$29.95 NZD
Category: Children's books | Reading Level: very good
Selected and introduced by Jenni Keestra, this collection is packed with stories from New Zealand's wonderful writers and illustrators. You will find all kinds of writing - picture books, poems, short stories and extracts from longer stories. From runaway settlers to loveable old horses; from mysterious ...Show more
The Selected Letters of Frank Sargeson by Sarah Shieff (ed.)
$49.99 NZD
Category: Literature | Reading Level: Very Good
Frank Sargeson wrote novels, memoirs and plays and was New Zealand's most important writer of short fiction following the death of Katherine Mansfield. He also encouraged numerous other writers, playing an invaluable role in the rise of our national literature, which he championed both at home and abroa ...Show more
The Silence Beyond: Selected Writings by Michael King by Michael King; Rachael King (ed.)
$42.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Autobiography | Reading Level: good
The late Michael King was one of New Zealand's most respected and popular historians. The author of the bestselling The Penguin History of New Zealand and many significant works otherwise, he was a writer of remarkable skill, sensitivity and importance. The Silence Beyond is a wide-ranging and often per ...Show more
The Talmud - A Selection by Norman Solomon (ed.)
$37.00 NZD
Category: Inspiration | Reading Level: very good
The most important text in Judaism after the Old Testament--available for the first time in Penguin Classics One of the most significant religious texts in the world, The Talmud is a compilation of the teachings of major Jewish scholars from the classic period of rabbinic Judaism. In a range of styl ...Show more
The War is Dead, Long Live the War: Bosnia: The Reckoning by Ed Vulliamy
$29.99 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
Wars come and go across the headlines and television screens, but for those who survive them, scarred and scattered, they never end. This is a book about post-conflict irresolution, about the lives of those who survived the gulag of concentration camps in north-western Bosnia and about seeking justice f ...Show more
Toi Tū Toi Ora - Contemporary Maori Art by Nigel Borell (ed.)
$65.00 NZD
Category: Art | Reading Level: very good
The story of contemporary Maori art from the 1950s to the present day, with more than 200 artworks by 110 Maori artists, this is a powerful, dynamic new book.Maori art is unique among all art movements, and to Aotearoa New Zealand.Drawing on centuries of indigenous knowledge and skill, it reflects a Mao ...Show more
Tough Women Adventure Stories - Stories of Grit, Courage and Determination by Jenny Tough (ed.)
$24.99 NZD
Category: Inspiration | Reading Level: very good
It's time we celebrated women in adventure What does "toughness" mean to you? Perhaps it's being physically fit and mentally resilient. Perhaps it's doing something no one else has done before. Perhaps it's breaking down boundaries and proving what you can do, in spite of the naysayers. Perhaps it's tr ...Show more
Towards a Grammar of Race In Aotearoa New Zealand by Anisha Sankar (ed.); Lana Lopesi (ed.); Arcia Tecun (ed.)
$39.99 NZD
Category: Non Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
A search for new ways to talk about race in Aotearoa New Zealand brought together this powerful group of scholars, writers and activists. For these authors, attempts to confront racism and racial violence often stall against a failure to see how power works through race, across our modern social worlds. ...Show more