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Homesteads: The Story of New Zealand's Grand Country Houses by Debra Millar
$75.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non-Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
A stunning tribute to the grand homes built by New Zealand's pioneering pastoralists, Homesteads shares a remarkable legacy of this country's rural heritage. These houses are among some of the country's most iconic, many of them surrounded by equally notable gardens, and all still lived in today. Jane U ...Show more
The History Speech by Mark Sweet
$32.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non-Fiction
It is 1960s provincial New Zealand, and a set of upper middle class families enjoy the good life together. But just under the surface of the conventionality, there are undercurrents. Adolescent Callum Gow's father is a bully, his mother is having an affair, and there are secrets about abuse, suicide and ...Show more
Hooked for Life - A Celebration of Fly Fishing by Les Hill
$45.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non-Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Based on Les Hill’s 63 years of fly fishing in New Zealand, HOOKED FOR LIFE is packed with interesting, amusing and informative anecdotes. The book resonates with the sheer joy of hunting and catching trout, while imparting a lifetime’s worth of invaluable lessons on how to go about it. The reader will ...Show more
New Zealanders: The Field Guide by Tom Sainsbury
$37.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non-Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
A revealing guide to the weird and wonderful inhabitants of New Zealand... and the places you'll find them. After years of mimicking various celebrities and stereotypes on his social media platforms, comedian Tom Sainsbury has now compiled his favourite New Zealand personalities into a book. This array ...Show more
Birds of New Zealand: Collective Nouns by Melissa Boardman
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non-Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
A beautifully illustrated book featuring New Zealand Aotearoa's native birds, each with its very own collective noun. A tussock of takahe? A hoon of kaka? A whistling of whio? This beautifully illustrated book of collective noun names for our native birds reveals something unique about their cha ...Show more
Living Lightly: The Busy Person's Guide to Mindful Consumption by Nicola Turner
$45.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non-Fiction | Reading Level: very good
How do you reduce your impact when you don't want to compromise your lifestyle? How do you live lighter when you're juggling the motherlode of life? How can you become more mindful of how and what you're consuming? In a previous career, Nicola Turner's job was to convince us to buy more - and now she u ...Show more
New Zealand Coastlines by Darryl & Gillian Torckler
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non-Fiction
A pictorial book of New Zealand’s coastlines, featuring the stunning images of innovative photography of Darryl Torckler, with text commentary from Gillian Torckler. Divided geographically, the photographed areas include: North: Bay of Islands to the Cape, down to 90-mile beach and Hokianga. East: from ...Show more
Ambition: What New Zealanders Think and Why it Matters by Julie Fry & Hayden Glass
$28.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non-Fiction
Many commentators say New Zealanders lack ambition, and that aspects of the New Zealandcharacter or our comfortable lives limit our achievements. We are said to be too keen on time off, too concerned about everyone fitting in, suspicious of people who try too hard, enthusiastic about humility, afraid of ...Show more
Wild Horses of the World by Kelly Wilson
$60.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non-Fiction
Wild horses have been an important part of wildlife on Earth for centuries, yet many herds now face serious threats - and very few people can claim to have seen them galloping free across the plains, or scaling mountain passes. Kelly Wilson has. For this book, she spent years researching the world's wil ...Show more
Semper Fidelis by Sandra Gorter
$15.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non-Fiction
Planted in the sea 1200 miles from the nearest significant landmass, New Zealand was always going to be a nation of sailors. As the era of immigrants arriving by boat was coming to a close, those already there had turned again to the sea for their recreation conducting the battles of peacetime on the wa ...Show more