Gordon Walters: New Vision by Lucy Hammonds; Julia Waite; Laurence Simmons
$79.00 NZD
Category: Illustrated Non-Fiction | Reading Level: New
A substantial publication, Gordon Walters : New Vision, is being co-published by Auckland Art Gallery and the Dunedin Public Art Gallery to mark the occasion of this exhibition.
Heloise by Mandy Hager
$38.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
What happens when the 12th century's most famous French lovers are caught in the crossfire of factions, religious reform and blind ambition? Heloise is a determined young woman with an exceptional mind, longing to pursue learning rather than marriage or life as a cloistered nun. Her path inevitably cros ...Show more
Iceland by Dominic Hoey
$34.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
Office-worker Zlata hopes for a record deal so she can leave Auckland city. She meets Hamish, graffiti artist and part-time drug dealer. Surrounded by a makeshift family of friends and ex-lovers, their dreams of music, art and travel take shape. Iceland lays bare the reality of a generation trying to fi ...Show more
New China Eyewitness by Beattie James
$59.99 NZD
Category: Illustrated Non-Fiction | Reading Level: Near Fine
New China Eyewitness is the fascinating account of the 1956 visit to the People's Republic of China by a group of prominent New Zealanders - including Roger Duff, James Bertram, Evelyn Page, Angus Ross and Ormond Wilson - and of how Canterbury Museum came to acquire the largest collection of Chinese art ...Show more
Night Horse by Smither Elizabeth
$24.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: Near Fine
In Elizabeth Smither's eighteenth collection of poetry her words are as vital as ever. The poems take the everyday - mothers and daughters, cats and horses, books and bowls, slippers and shirts - and transform them into something fresh: sometimes surreal, sometimes funny, often enchanted. And throughout ...Show more
Phoney Wars: New Zealand Society in the Second World War by Stevan Eldred-Grigg:Hugh Eldred-Grigg
$49.95 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction
Phoney Wars looks at the lives of New Zealanders during the greatest armed struggle the world has ever seen: the Second World War. It is not a political, economic or military history; rather it explores what life was like during the war years for ordinary people living under the New Zealand flag. Stevan ...Show more
Salt Picnic by Evans Patrick
$30.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
`All the time on the island there had been something she was looking for. She knew she had to keep this in mind, and that she'd know what it was when she found it. Whatever it proved to be.' It's 1956 and Iola arrives on the island of Ibiza, on the fringes of Franco's Spain, with little more than a Span ...Show more
Sodden Downstream by Brannavan Gnanalingam
$29.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Thousands flee central Wellington as a far too common 'once in a century' storm descends. Roads are closed and all rail is halted. For their own safety, city workers are told that they must go home early. Sita is a Tamil Sri Lankan refugee living in the Hutt Valley. She's just had a call from her boss. ...Show more
Strangers Arrive: Emigrés and the Arts in New Zealand, 1930–1980 by Leonard Bell
$0.00 NZD
Category: Illustrated Non-Fiction
"None of us had the faintest idea where we were going [but] during 1938–39 . . . the town [Christchurch] was made strangely interesting for anyone like myself, [with the] scattered arrival of 'the refugees'. All at once there were people among us who were actually from Vienna, or Chemnitz, or Berlin . . ...Show more
Tangata Ngai Tahu: People of Ngai Tahu, Vol 1 by Takerei Norton
$39.99 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Tāngata Ngāi | Reading Level: very good
Tangata Ngai Tahu remembers and celebrates the rich and diverse lives of the people of Ngai Tahu. Spanning time, geography and kaupapa, some fifty biographies bring Ngai Tahu history into the present. The people in the book have contributed to their iwi, hapu and whanau in myriad ways: here are rangatir ...Show more
Tears of Rangi - Experiments Across Worlds by Salmon D Anne
$65.00 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Six centuries ago Polynesian explorers, who inhabited a cosmos in which islands sailed across the sea and stars across the sky, arrived in Aotearoa New Zealand where they rapidly adapted to new plants, animals, landscapes and climatic conditions. Four centuries later, European explorers arrived with map ...Show more
Teenagers - The rise of youth culture in New Zealand by Chris Brickell
$49.99 NZD
Category: Illustrated Non-Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Teenagers is a ground-breaking history of young people in New Zealand from the nineteenth century to the 1960s. Through their diaries and letters, photographs and drawings, we meet young New Zealanders as they transition from children to adults: sealers and bushfellers, factory girls and newspaper boys, ...Show more